Schools
346 open schools are in scope, including 189 primary and 48 secondary schools. Olga Primary School is the nearest published school at 430 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E3 5AZ
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E3 5AZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E3
- Postcode sector
- E3 5
- Latitude
- 51.526919
- Longitude
- -0.035712
- British National Grid easting
- 536,359
- British National Grid northing
- 182,718
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
- E00021307
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 003C · E01004232
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 003 · E02000866
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
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, St Davids Mews, London, E3 5AZ | 21 August 2020 | £825,000 |
| 1, St Davids Mews, London, E3 5AZ | 10 November 2017 | £767,500 |
| 1, St Davids Mews, London, E3 5AZ | 1 October 2014 | £643,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 346
- Primary
- 189
- Secondary
- 48
- 430 m
Olga Primary School
Community school
- 444 m
Malmesbury Primary School
Community school
- 500 m
Central Foundation Girls' School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15,833
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,804
- Anti social behaviour 2,105
- Other theft 1,199
- Shoplifting 1,108
- Public order 991
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- 3 female, 4 male
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- E3 5 residents
- 14,773
Age bands in E3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- 2,536 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.7%
- 2,004 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.9%
- 5,997 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 20%
- 2,934 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 8.1%
- 1,189 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E3 5 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
110
within 5 km straight-line
THE GROVE ROAD SURGERY
IVANHOE HOUSE, 130 GROVE ROAD, LONDON, E3 5TW
ODS code F84055
386 m
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
493 m
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
495 m
TREDEGAR PRACTICE
35 ST.STEPHENS ROAD, BOW, LONDON, E3 5JD
ODS code F84696
550 m
HARLEY GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
15 HARLEY GROVE, LONDON, E3 2AT
ODS code F84044
565 m
ST. STEPHENS HEALTH CENTRE
BOW COMMUNITY CENTRE, WILLIAM PLACE, LONDON, E3 5ED
ODS code F84034
692 m
WELLINGTON WAY HEALTH CENTRE
WELLINGTON WAY CENTRE, 1A WELLINGTON WAY, LONDON, E3 4NE
ODS code F84118
765 m
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
964 m
RUSTON STREET CLINIC
RUSTON STREET, BOW, LONDON, E3 2LR
ODS code F84030
1.2 km
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
1.5 km
ST ANDREWS HEALTH CENTRE
2 HANNAFORD WALK, BOW, LONDON, E3 3FF
ODS code Y03023
1.5 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
1.7 km
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
1.8 km
THE LIMEHOUSE PRACTICE
11 GILL STREET, POPLAR, LONDON, E14 8HQ
ODS code F84054
1.8 km
WELL STREET SURGERY
28 SHORE ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 7TA
ODS code F84069
1.8 km
THE GREENHOUSE WALK-IN
19 TUDOR ROAD, LONDON, E9 7SN
ODS code F84632
1.9 km
BETHNAL GREEN HEALTH CTR.
60 FLORIDA STREET, LONDON, E2 6LL
ODS code F84083
2.0 km
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
2.0 km
ELSDALE STREET SURGERY
28 ELSDALE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6QY
ODS code F84601
2.0 km
THE CHRISP STREET HTH CTR
100 CHRISP STREET, LONDON, E14 6PG
ODS code F84062
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 110 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 55 m
Lichfield Road
BCT · Mile End
- 60 m
Lichfield Road
BCT · Mile End
- 122 m
Mile End Station / Mile End Rd
BCT · Mile End
- 123 m
Mile End Station / Bow Road
BCT · Mile End
- 136 m
Mile End
BCT · Mile End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 003C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,122 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
15,833 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,319 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,804 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.