Schools
340 open schools are in scope, including 188 primary and 50 secondary schools. Phoenix Autism Trust is the nearest published school at 81 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E3 2AH
Bow West · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Bow West
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Stratford and Bow
- Postcode district
- E3
- Postcode sector
- E3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E3 2AH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E3
- Postcode sector
- E3 2
- Latitude
- 51.528217
- Longitude
- -0.027842
- British National Grid easting
- 536,901
- British National Grid northing
- 182,877
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Tower Hamlets · E09000030
- Electoral ward
- Bow West · E05009320
- Parish or community
- E43000220
- Westminster constituency
- Stratford and Bow · E14001525
- Output area
- E00021303
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 004C · E01004229
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 004 · E02000867
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore E3
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Benworth Street, London, E3 2AH | 17 October 2007 | £375,000 |
| 2, Benworth Street, London, E3 2AH | 20 September 2002 | £200,000 |
| 4, Benworth Street, London, E3 2AH | 24 July 2002 | £205,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 340
- Primary
- 188
- Secondary
- 50
- 81 m
Phoenix Autism Trust
Special post 16 institution
- 104 m
Central Foundation Girls' School
Voluntary aided school
- 120 m
Phoenix School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14,094
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,106
- Anti social behaviour 1,840
- Other theft 1,075
- Shoplifting 1,003
- Theft from the person 926
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- E3 2 residents
- 17,187
4 female, 2 male
Age bands in E3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 50.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 15.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 6.2%
2,527 residents
2,121 residents
8,652 residents
2,688 residents
1,057 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E3 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
113
within 5 km
HARLEY GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
15 HARLEY GROVE, LONDON, E3 2AT
ODS code F84044
29 m
WELLINGTON WAY HEALTH CENTRE
WELLINGTON WAY CENTRE, 1A WELLINGTON WAY, LONDON, E3 4NE
ODS code F84118
331 m
TREDEGAR PRACTICE
35 ST.STEPHENS ROAD, BOW, LONDON, E3 5JD
ODS code F84696
416 m
ST. STEPHENS HEALTH CENTRE
BOW COMMUNITY CENTRE, WILLIAM PLACE, LONDON, E3 5ED
ODS code F84034
525 m
THE GROVE ROAD SURGERY
IVANHOE HOUSE, 130 GROVE ROAD, LONDON, E3 5TW
ODS code F84055
783 m
RUSTON STREET CLINIC
RUSTON STREET, BOW, LONDON, E3 2LR
ODS code F84030
896 m
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
976 m
ST ANDREWS HEALTH CENTRE
2 HANNAFORD WALK, BOW, LONDON, E3 3FF
ODS code Y03023
1.1 km
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
1.1 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
1.3 km
THE CHRISP STREET HTH CTR
100 CHRISP STREET, LONDON, E14 6PG
ODS code F84062
1.8 km
THE LIMEHOUSE PRACTICE
11 GILL STREET, POPLAR, LONDON, E14 8HQ
ODS code F84054
1.9 km
TROWBRIDGE PRACTICE
18 MERRIAM AVENUE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 5NE
ODS code Y00403
1.9 km
CARPENTERS PRACTICE
236-252 HIGH STREET, STRATFORD, LONDON, E15 2JA
ODS code F84749
2.0 km
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
2.0 km
WELL STREET SURGERY
28 SHORE ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 7TA
ODS code F84069
2.1 km
ELSDALE STREET SURGERY
28 ELSDALE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6QY
ODS code F84601
2.2 km
GOUGH WALK PRACTICE
NEWBY PLCE HLTH WELLBEING, 21 NEWBY PLACE, LONDON, E14 0EY
ODS code F84025
2.2 km
THE GREENHOUSE WALK-IN
19 TUDOR ROAD, LONDON, E9 7SN
ODS code F84632
2.2 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 113 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bow Road Station
BCT · Bow
- 0.1 miles
Coborn Road
BCT · Mile End
- 0.1 miles
Bow Road Station
TMU · Bow
- 0.1 miles
Bow Road Underground Station
MET · Bow
- 0.1 miles
Bow Road Underground Station
PLT · Bow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 004C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
10,007 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
14,094 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,174.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,106 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.