Schools
337 open schools are in scope, including 186 primary and 50 secondary schools. Phoenix School is the nearest published school at 62 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E3 2BS
Bow West · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 2BS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 May 2016
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E3
- Postcode sector
- E3 2
- Latitude
- 51.527174
- Longitude
- -0.027296
- British National Grid easting
- 536,942
- British National Grid northing
- 182,762
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
- E00021306
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 337
- Primary
- 186
- Secondary
- 50
- 62 m
Phoenix School
Community special school
- 68 m
Phoenix Autism Trust
Special post 16 institution
- 90 m
Central Foundation Girls' School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14,558
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,288
- Anti social behaviour 1,902
- Other theft 1,133
- Shoplifting 980
- Vehicle crime 975
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E3 2 residents
- 17,187
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
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
111
within 5 km straight-line
HARLEY GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
15 HARLEY GROVE, LONDON, E3 2AT
ODS code F84044
93 m
WELLINGTON WAY HEALTH CENTRE
WELLINGTON WAY CENTRE, 1A WELLINGTON WAY, LONDON, E3 4NE
ODS code F84118
222 m
TREDEGAR PRACTICE
35 ST.STEPHENS ROAD, BOW, LONDON, E3 5JD
ODS code F84696
532 m
ST. STEPHENS HEALTH CENTRE
BOW COMMUNITY CENTRE, WILLIAM PLACE, LONDON, E3 5ED
ODS code F84034
646 m
THE GROVE ROAD SURGERY
IVANHOE HOUSE, 130 GROVE ROAD, LONDON, E3 5TW
ODS code F84055
853 m
ST ANDREWS HEALTH CENTRE
2 HANNAFORD WALK, BOW, LONDON, E3 3FF
ODS code Y03023
972 m
RUSTON STREET CLINIC
RUSTON STREET, BOW, LONDON, E3 2LR
ODS code F84030
1.0 km
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
1.0 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
1.2 km
THE CHRISP STREET HTH CTR
100 CHRISP STREET, LONDON, E14 6PG
ODS code F84062
1.7 km
THE LIMEHOUSE PRACTICE
11 GILL STREET, POPLAR, LONDON, E14 8HQ
ODS code F84054
1.8 km
CARPENTERS PRACTICE
236-252 HIGH STREET, STRATFORD, LONDON, E15 2JA
ODS code F84749
2.0 km
TROWBRIDGE PRACTICE
18 MERRIAM AVENUE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 5NE
ODS code Y00403
2.0 km
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
2.1 km
GOUGH WALK PRACTICE
NEWBY PLCE HLTH WELLBEING, 21 NEWBY PLACE, LONDON, E14 0EY
ODS code F84025
2.1 km
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
2.2 km
ABERFELDY PRACTICE
ABERFELDY H&W CENTRE, 19 ABERFELDY SQUARE, LONDON, E14 0XA
ODS code F84698
2.2 km
WELL STREET SURGERY
28 SHORE ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 7TA
ODS code F84069
2.2 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 111 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bow Road Station
BCT · Bow
- 0.1 miles
Bow Road Underground Station
MET · Bow
- 0.1 miles
Bow Road Underground Station
PLT · Bow
- 0.1 miles
Coborn Road
BCT · Mile End
- 0.1 miles
Bow Road Station
TMU · 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
14,558 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,213.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,288 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.