Schools
356 open schools are in scope, including 188 primary and 49 secondary schools. Gatehouse School is the nearest published school at 231 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E3 5ST
Bethnal Green East · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bethnal Green East
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney
- Postcode district
- E3
- Postcode sector
- E3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E3 5ST
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1986
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E3
- Postcode sector
- E3 5
- Latitude
- 51.531385
- Longitude
- -0.043580
- British National Grid easting
- 535,800
- British National Grid northing
- 183,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Tower Hamlets · E09000030
- Electoral ward
- Bethnal Green East · E05009317
- Parish or community
- E43000220
- Westminster constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney · E14001086
- Output area
- E00021447
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 010F · E01032786
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 010 · E02000873
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
- 356
- Primary
- 188
- Secondary
- 49
- 231 m
Gatehouse School
Other independent school
- 360 m
Chisenhale Primary School
Community school
- 398 m
Bonner Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16,153
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,605
- Anti social behaviour 2,050
- Shoplifting 1,495
- Other theft 1,220
- Theft from the person 1,134
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E3 5 residents
- 14,773
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
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.
GP practices
111
within 5 km straight-line
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
273 m
THE GROVE ROAD SURGERY
IVANHOE HOUSE, 130 GROVE ROAD, LONDON, E3 5TW
ODS code F84055
373 m
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
712 m
TREDEGAR PRACTICE
35 ST.STEPHENS ROAD, BOW, LONDON, E3 5JD
ODS code F84696
833 m
ST. STEPHENS HEALTH CENTRE
BOW COMMUNITY CENTRE, WILLIAM PLACE, LONDON, E3 5ED
ODS code F84034
870 m
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
893 m
WELL STREET SURGERY
28 SHORE ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 7TA
ODS code F84069
1.1 km
THE GREENHOUSE WALK-IN
19 TUDOR ROAD, LONDON, E9 7SN
ODS code F84632
1.2 km
HARLEY GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
15 HARLEY GROVE, LONDON, E3 2AT
ODS code F84044
1.2 km
RUSTON STREET CLINIC
RUSTON STREET, BOW, LONDON, E3 2LR
ODS code F84030
1.3 km
ELSDALE STREET SURGERY
28 ELSDALE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6QY
ODS code F84601
1.4 km
LONDON FIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
38-44 BROADWAY MARKET, LONDON, E8 4QJ
ODS code F84021
1.4 km
WELLINGTON WAY HEALTH CENTRE
WELLINGTON WAY CENTRE, 1A WELLINGTON WAY, LONDON, E3 4NE
ODS code F84118
1.4 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
1.5 km
BETHNAL GREEN HEALTH CTR.
60 FLORIDA STREET, LONDON, E2 6LL
ODS code F84083
1.5 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
1.6 km
THE BLITHEHALE MED.CTR.
10-22 DUNBRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E2 6JA
ODS code F84718
1.7 km
LATIMER HEALTH CENTRE
4 HOMERTON TERRACE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6RT
ODS code F84719
1.7 km
TROWBRIDGE PRACTICE
18 MERRIAM AVENUE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 5NE
ODS code Y00403
1.8 km
THE LEA SURGERY
ALFRED HEALTH CENTRE, 186 HOMERTON HIGH STREET, LONDON, E9 6AG
ODS code F84105
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 111 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Smart Street
BCT · Globe Town
- 0.1 miles
Haverfield Green / Grove Road
BCT · Globe Town
- 0.1 miles
Old Ford Road Globe Town
BCT · Globe Town
- 0.1 miles
Roman Road
BCT · Globe Town
- 0.2 miles
St Barnabas Church (E3)
BCT · Globe Town
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 010F, 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
5,982 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
16,153 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,346.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,605 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.