Schools
323 open schools are in scope, including 176 primary and 44 secondary schools. Leaways School is the nearest published school at 445 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E5 9RL
Lea Bridge · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lea Bridge
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow
- Postcode district
- E5
- Postcode sector
- E5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E5 9RL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2010
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E5
- Postcode sector
- E5 9
- Latitude
- 51.562854
- Longitude
- -0.046501
- British National Grid easting
- 535,504
- British National Grid northing
- 186,694
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Waltham Forest · E09000031
- Electoral ward
- Lea Bridge · E05013895
- Parish or community
- E43000221
- Westminster constituency
- Walthamstow · E14001563
- Output area
- E00185724
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 022A · E01004422
- Middle layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 022 · E02000916
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 323
- Primary
- 176
- Secondary
- 44
- 445 m
Leaways School
Other independent special school
- 497 m
Southwold Primary School
Community school
- 717 m
Harrington Hill Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,473
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,196
- Anti social behaviour 1,007
- Other theft 600
- Theft from the person 543
- Public order 491
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E5 9 residents
- 16,989
Age bands in E5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 25.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.6%
4,023 residents
2,165 residents
5,460 residents
3,095 residents
1,209 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
125
within 5 km straight-line
THE CLAPTON SURGERY
THEYDON ROAD HEALTH CTR, 14 URBAN HIVE, THEYDON RD, LONDON, E5 9BQ
ODS code F84668
424 m
THE RIVERSIDE PRACTICE
14 URBAN HIVE, THEYDON ROAD, LONDON, E5 9BQ
ODS code F84619
424 m
ATHENA MEDICAL CENTRE
21 ATHERDEN ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 0QP
ODS code F84060
996 m
HEALY MEDICAL CENTRE
200 UPPER CLAPTON ROAD, LONDON, E5 9DH
ODS code F84720
1.0 km
LOWER CLAPTON GENERAL PRACTICE
THE PORTICO, 34 LINSCOTT ROAD, LONDON, E5 0RD
ODS code F84003
1.1 km
THE NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
10 KENNINGHALL ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 8BY
ODS code F84018
1.2 km
FOUNTAYNE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1A FOUNTAYNE ROAD, LONDON, N16 7EA
ODS code F84080
1.3 km
KINGSMEAD HEALTHCARE
4 KINGSMEAD WAY, LONDON, E9 5QG
ODS code F84015
1.5 km
SEYMOUR MEDICAL CENTRE
266 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7LD
ODS code F86006
1.5 km
THE LEA SURGERY
ALFRED HEALTH CENTRE, 186 HOMERTON HIGH STREET, LONDON, E9 6AG
ODS code F84105
1.6 km
THE SURGERY (BROOKE ROAD)
BROOKE ROAD SURGERY, 40-42 BROOKE ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7LR
ODS code F84694
1.7 km
THE WICK HEALTH CENTRE
10 KENWORTHY ROAD, LONDON, E9 5TD
ODS code F84620
1.8 km
SPRING HILL PRACTICE
BELFAST ROAD, LONDON, N16 6UH
ODS code Y03049
1.8 km
LATIMER HEALTH CENTRE
4 HOMERTON TERRACE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6RT
ODS code F84719
1.8 km
THE MANOR PRACTICE
454 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7DY
ODS code F86011
1.9 km
STAMFORD HILL GROUP PRACTICE
2 EGERTON ROAD, STAMFORD HILL, LONDON, N16 6UA
ODS code F84013
2.0 km
SOMERFORD GROVE PRACTICE
SOMERFORD GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7UA
ODS code F84033
2.1 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL PRACTICE LIMITED
THE FIRS MEDICAL CENTRE, 26 STEPHENSON ROAD, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86058
2.1 km
THE FIRS
26 STEPHENSON ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86001
2.1 km
DALSTON PRACTICE
1B MADINAH ROAD, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84063
2.2 km
Showing 20 of 125 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lee Valley Ice Centre
BCT · Lea Bridge Road
- 0.1 miles
Lee Valley Ice Centre
BCT · Lea Bridge Road
- 0.1 miles
Chatsworth Road / Lea Bridge Road
BCT · Lea Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Chatsworth Road / Lea Bridge Road
BCT · Lea Bridge
- 0.2 miles
Millfields Park
BCT · Lea Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 022A, 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
13,506 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
7,473 published events cover 12 months, averaging 622.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,196 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.