Property market
The five-year median is £1,752,974 from 2 recorded sales in E5 8LU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Hackney is £605,442 in June 2026, up 0.4% year on year.
E5 8LU
Hackney Central · Hackney · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Hackney Central
- Local authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch
- Postcode district
- E5
- Postcode sector
- E5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E5 8LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E5
- Postcode sector
- E5 8
- Latitude
- 51.550749
- Longitude
- -0.059958
- British National Grid easting
- 534,607
- British National Grid northing
- 185,323
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Hackney · E09000012
- Electoral ward
- Hackney Central · E05009372
- Parish or community
- E43000202
- Westminster constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch · E14001260
- Output area
- E00008779
- Lower layer super output area
- Hackney 016D · E01001758
- Middle layer super output area
- Hackney 016 · E02000360
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 E5
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hunts Wharf, Leaside Road, London, E5 8LU | 7 July 2023 | £2,925,000 |
| Hunts Wharf, Flat 404, Leaside Road, London, E5 8LU | 21 October 2021 | £580,948 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 354
- Primary
- 185
- Secondary
- 48
- 136 m
Mossbourne Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 219 m
Stormont House School
Community special school
- 280 m
Mossbourne Parkside Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 18,105
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,948
- Anti social behaviour 1,975
- Theft from the person 1,627
- Shoplifting 1,624
- Other theft 1,429
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E5 8 residents
- 15,935
Age bands in E5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13%
- Age 25 to 44
- 39.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 8%
2,948 residents
2,091 residents
6,309 residents
3,490 residents
1,290 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
132
within 5 km
DALSTON PRACTICE
1B MADINAH ROAD, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84063
600 m
SANDRINGHAM PRACTICE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 1A MADINAH ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84621
600 m
LOWER CLAPTON GENERAL PRACTICE
THE PORTICO, 34 LINSCOTT ROAD, LONDON, E5 0RD
ODS code F84003
601 m
ATHENA MEDICAL CENTRE
21 ATHERDEN ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 0QP
ODS code F84060
660 m
THE NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
10 KENNINGHALL ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 8BY
ODS code F84018
853 m
LATIMER HEALTH CENTRE
4 HOMERTON TERRACE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6RT
ODS code F84719
862 m
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
86A DALSTON LANE, LONDON, E8 3AH
ODS code F84038
905 m
RICHMOND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
136 RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON, E8 3HN
ODS code F84035
939 m
SOMERFORD GROVE PRACTICE
SOMERFORD GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7UA
ODS code F84033
940 m
ELSDALE STREET SURGERY
28 ELSDALE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6QY
ODS code F84601
1.1 km
THE LEA SURGERY
ALFRED HEALTH CENTRE, 186 HOMERTON HIGH STREET, LONDON, E9 6AG
ODS code F84105
1.2 km
THE SURGERY (BROOKE ROAD)
BROOKE ROAD SURGERY, 40-42 BROOKE ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7LR
ODS code F84694
1.3 km
THE SURGERY (BARRETTS GROVE)
6 BARRETTS GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 8AR
ODS code F84636
1.3 km
QUEENSBRIDGE GROUP PRACTICE
24 HOLLY STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 3XP
ODS code F84117
1.3 km
WELL STREET SURGERY
28 SHORE ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 7TA
ODS code F84069
1.4 km
THE GREENHOUSE WALK-IN
19 TUDOR ROAD, LONDON, E9 7SN
ODS code F84632
1.4 km
FOUNTAYNE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1A FOUNTAYNE ROAD, LONDON, N16 7EA
ODS code F84080
1.6 km
THE WICK HEALTH CENTRE
10 KENWORTHY ROAD, LONDON, E9 5TD
ODS code F84620
1.6 km
LONDON FIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
38-44 BROADWAY MARKET, LONDON, E8 4QJ
ODS code F84021
1.6 km
THE CLAPTON SURGERY
THEYDON ROAD HEALTH CTR, 14 URBAN HIVE, THEYDON RD, LONDON, E5 9BQ
ODS code F84668
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 132 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
Hackney Downs Station
BCT · Hackney
- 0.1 miles
Hackney Downs Station
BCT · Hackney
- 0.1 miles
Amhurst Road / Dalston Lane
BCT · Hackney
- 0.1 miles
Pembury Road / Downs Park Road
BCT · Lower Clapton
- 0.1 miles
Pembury Circus
BCT · Hackney
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hackney 016D, 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
6,639 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
354 open schools are in scope, including 185 primary and 48 secondary schools. Mossbourne Community Academy is the nearest published school at 136 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
18,105 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,508.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,948 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.