Schools
341 open schools are in scope, including 183 primary and 49 secondary schools. Mulberry UTC is the nearest published school at 186 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E3 5NT
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E3 5NT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E3
- Postcode sector
- E3 5
- Latitude
- 51.536066
- Longitude
- -0.029363
- British National Grid easting
- 536,772
- British National Grid northing
- 183,747
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
- E00167197
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 001B · E01004223
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 001 · E02000864
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
- 341
- Primary
- 183
- Secondary
- 49
- 186 m
Mulberry UTC
University technical college
- 360 m
Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm Academy
Academy converter
- 756 m
Chisenhale Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12,116
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,261
- Anti social behaviour 1,414
- Shoplifting 1,203
- Theft from the person 1,132
- Other theft 970
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 33
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- E3 5 residents
- 14,773
19 female, 15 male
Age bands in E3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.1%
2,536 residents
2,004 residents
5,997 residents
2,934 residents
1,189 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
118
within 5 km
RUSTON STREET CLINIC
RUSTON STREET, BOW, LONDON, E3 2LR
ODS code F84030
146 m
ST. STEPHENS HEALTH CENTRE
BOW COMMUNITY CENTRE, WILLIAM PLACE, LONDON, E3 5ED
ODS code F84034
421 m
TREDEGAR PRACTICE
35 ST.STEPHENS ROAD, BOW, LONDON, E3 5JD
ODS code F84696
569 m
HARLEY GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
15 HARLEY GROVE, LONDON, E3 2AT
ODS code F84044
908 m
THE GROVE ROAD SURGERY
IVANHOE HOUSE, 130 GROVE ROAD, LONDON, E3 5TW
ODS code F84055
960 m
TROWBRIDGE PRACTICE
18 MERRIAM AVENUE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 5NE
ODS code Y00403
1.0 km
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
1.2 km
WELLINGTON WAY HEALTH CENTRE
WELLINGTON WAY CENTRE, 1A WELLINGTON WAY, LONDON, E3 4NE
ODS code F84118
1.2 km
THE WICK HEALTH CENTRE
10 KENWORTHY ROAD, LONDON, E9 5TD
ODS code F84620
1.5 km
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
1.5 km
ELSDALE STREET SURGERY
28 ELSDALE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6QY
ODS code F84601
1.6 km
THE LEA SURGERY
ALFRED HEALTH CENTRE, 186 HOMERTON HIGH STREET, LONDON, E9 6AG
ODS code F84105
1.7 km
WELL STREET SURGERY
28 SHORE ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 7TA
ODS code F84069
1.7 km
ST ANDREWS HEALTH CENTRE
2 HANNAFORD WALK, BOW, LONDON, E3 3FF
ODS code Y03023
1.7 km
KINGSMEAD HEALTHCARE
4 KINGSMEAD WAY, LONDON, E9 5QG
ODS code F84015
1.8 km
CARPENTERS PRACTICE
236-252 HIGH STREET, STRATFORD, LONDON, E15 2JA
ODS code F84749
1.8 km
LATIMER HEALTH CENTRE
4 HOMERTON TERRACE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6RT
ODS code F84719
1.8 km
THE GREENHOUSE WALK-IN
19 TUDOR ROAD, LONDON, E9 7SN
ODS code F84632
1.8 km
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
2.0 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 118 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Parnell Road
BCT · Old Ford
- 0.0 miles
Parnell Road
BCT · Old Ford
- 0.1 miles
Old Ford Road (E3)
BCT · Old Ford
- 0.1 miles
Old Ford Road (E3)
BCT · Old Ford
- 0.1 miles
Waterside Close
BCT · Old Ford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 001B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,074 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
- 40
- 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
12,116 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,009.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,261 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.