Property market
The five-year median is £525,000 from 1 recorded sale in E5 8QP. 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 8QP
Hackney Downs · Hackney · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Hackney Downs
- Local authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington
- Postcode district
- E5
- Postcode sector
- E5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E5 8QP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E5
- Postcode sector
- E5 8
- Latitude
- 51.555701
- Longitude
- -0.061969
- British National Grid easting
- 534,453
- British National Grid northing
- 185,870
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Hackney · E09000012
- Electoral ward
- Hackney Downs · E05009373
- Parish or community
- E43000202
- Westminster constituency
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington · E14001259
- Output area
- E00183921
- Lower layer super output area
- Hackney 010G · E01033713
- Middle layer super output area
- Hackney 010 · E02000354
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 59, Downs Road, London, E5 8QP | 26 September 2025 | £525,000 |
| 59, Downs Road, London, E5 8QP | 22 March 2018 | £477,000 |
| 59, Downs Road, London, E5 8QP | 18 November 2011 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 356
- Primary
- 187
- Secondary
- 47
- 143 m
Nightingale Primary School
Community school
- 209 m
The Boxing Academy AP Free School
Free schools alternative provision
- 343 m
St Scholastica's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16,770
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,547
- Anti social behaviour 1,878
- Theft from the person 1,518
- Shoplifting 1,456
- Other theft 1,339
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 44
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- E5 8 residents
- 15,935
25 female, 19 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E5 8 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
136
within 5 km
THE NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
10 KENNINGHALL ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 8BY
ODS code F84018
287 m
ATHENA MEDICAL CENTRE
21 ATHERDEN ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 0QP
ODS code F84060
612 m
LOWER CLAPTON GENERAL PRACTICE
THE PORTICO, 34 LINSCOTT ROAD, LONDON, E5 0RD
ODS code F84003
713 m
SOMERFORD GROVE PRACTICE
SOMERFORD GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7UA
ODS code F84033
767 m
THE SURGERY (BROOKE ROAD)
BROOKE ROAD SURGERY, 40-42 BROOKE ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7LR
ODS code F84694
777 m
DALSTON PRACTICE
1B MADINAH ROAD, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84063
953 m
SANDRINGHAM PRACTICE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 1A MADINAH ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84621
953 m
FOUNTAYNE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1A FOUNTAYNE ROAD, LONDON, N16 7EA
ODS code F84080
995 m
THE SURGERY (BARRETTS GROVE)
6 BARRETTS GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 8AR
ODS code F84636
1.2 km
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
86A DALSTON LANE, LONDON, E8 3AH
ODS code F84038
1.2 km
SPRING HILL PRACTICE
BELFAST ROAD, LONDON, N16 6UH
ODS code Y03049
1.3 km
HEALY MEDICAL CENTRE
200 UPPER CLAPTON ROAD, LONDON, E5 9DH
ODS code F84720
1.3 km
THE CLAPTON SURGERY
THEYDON ROAD HEALTH CTR, 14 URBAN HIVE, THEYDON RD, LONDON, E5 9BQ
ODS code F84668
1.3 km
THE RIVERSIDE PRACTICE
14 URBAN HIVE, THEYDON ROAD, LONDON, E5 9BQ
ODS code F84619
1.3 km
LATIMER HEALTH CENTRE
4 HOMERTON TERRACE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6RT
ODS code F84719
1.3 km
RICHMOND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
136 RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON, E8 3HN
ODS code F84035
1.4 km
THE LEA SURGERY
ALFRED HEALTH CENTRE, 186 HOMERTON HIGH STREET, LONDON, E9 6AG
ODS code F84105
1.5 km
BARTON HOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
233 ALBION ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 9JT
ODS code F84008
1.6 km
ELSDALE STREET SURGERY
28 ELSDALE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6QY
ODS code F84601
1.7 km
MILDMAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A GREEN LANES, LONDON, N16 9NF
ODS code F83053
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 136 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
- 0.2 miles
Ottaway Street
BCT · Shacklewell
- 0.2 miles
Ottaway Street
BCT · Shacklewell
- 0.2 miles
Muir Road
BCT · Lower Clapton
- 0.2 miles
Muir Road
BCT · Lower Clapton
- 0.2 miles
Kenninghall Road
BCT · Lower Clapton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hackney 010G, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,496 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
Schools
356 open schools are in scope, including 187 primary and 47 secondary schools. Nightingale Primary School is the nearest published school at 143 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
16,770 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,397.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,547 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.