Schools
332 open schools are in scope, including 181 primary and 48 secondary schools. Mulberry UTC is the nearest published school at 162 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E3 2BU
Bow East · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bow East
- 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 2BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E3
- Postcode sector
- E3 2
- Latitude
- 51.535622
- Longitude
- -0.025403
- British National Grid easting
- 537,048
- British National Grid northing
- 183,705
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Tower Hamlets · E09000030
- Electoral ward
- Bow East · E05009319
- Parish or community
- E43000220
- Westminster constituency
- Stratford and Bow · E14001525
- Output area
- E00167185
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 004E · E01032764
- 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
- 332
- Primary
- 181
- Secondary
- 48
- 162 m
Mulberry UTC
University technical college
- 528 m
Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm Academy
Academy converter
- 798 m
Bobby Moore Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13,676
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,220
- Shoplifting 1,636
- Theft from the person 1,594
- Anti social behaviour 1,449
- Other theft 1,230
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 28
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- E3 2 residents
- 17,187
17 female, 11 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 0.2% 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+
- 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
119
within 5 km
RUSTON STREET CLINIC
RUSTON STREET, BOW, LONDON, E3 2LR
ODS code F84030
149 m
ST. STEPHENS HEALTH CENTRE
BOW COMMUNITY CENTRE, WILLIAM PLACE, LONDON, E3 5ED
ODS code F84034
533 m
TREDEGAR PRACTICE
35 ST.STEPHENS ROAD, BOW, LONDON, E3 5JD
ODS code F84696
658 m
HARLEY GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
15 HARLEY GROVE, LONDON, E3 2AT
ODS code F84044
868 m
WELLINGTON WAY HEALTH CENTRE
WELLINGTON WAY CENTRE, 1A WELLINGTON WAY, LONDON, E3 4NE
ODS code F84118
1.1 km
TROWBRIDGE PRACTICE
18 MERRIAM AVENUE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 5NE
ODS code Y00403
1.1 km
THE GROVE ROAD SURGERY
IVANHOE HOUSE, 130 GROVE ROAD, LONDON, E3 5TW
ODS code F84055
1.1 km
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
1.3 km
ST ANDREWS HEALTH CENTRE
2 HANNAFORD WALK, BOW, LONDON, E3 3FF
ODS code Y03023
1.5 km
CARPENTERS PRACTICE
236-252 HIGH STREET, STRATFORD, LONDON, E15 2JA
ODS code F84749
1.5 km
THE WICK HEALTH CENTRE
10 KENWORTHY ROAD, LONDON, E9 5TD
ODS code F84620
1.6 km
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
1.7 km
ELSDALE STREET SURGERY
28 ELSDALE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6QY
ODS code F84601
1.8 km
THE LEA SURGERY
ALFRED HEALTH CENTRE, 186 HOMERTON HIGH STREET, LONDON, E9 6AG
ODS code F84105
1.9 km
LIBERTY BRIDGE ROAD PRACTICE
LUDWIG GUTTMAN CENTRE, 40 LIBERTY BRIDGE ROAD, STRATFORD, LONDON, E20 1AS
ODS code Y04273
1.9 km
KINGSMEAD HEALTHCARE
4 KINGSMEAD WAY, LONDON, E9 5QG
ODS code F84015
1.9 km
WELL STREET SURGERY
28 SHORE ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 7TA
ODS code F84069
1.9 km
LATIMER HEALTH CENTRE
4 HOMERTON TERRACE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6RT
ODS code F84719
2.1 km
THE GREENHOUSE WALK-IN
19 TUDOR ROAD, LONDON, E9 7SN
ODS code F84632
2.1 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 119 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
Roman Road Market
BCT · Old Ford
- 0.1 miles
Fish Island
BCT · Old Ford
- 0.1 miles
Old Ford Road (E3)
BCT · Old Ford
- 0.1 miles
Fish Island
BCT · Old Ford
- 0.1 miles
Roman Road Market
BCT · Old Ford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 004E, 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
10,087 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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
- 5
- 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
13,676 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,139.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,220 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.