Schools
357 open schools are in scope, including 190 primary and 48 secondary schools. Halley House School is the nearest published school at 116 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E8 2DQ
Shacklewell · Hackney · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shacklewell
- Local authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington
- Postcode district
- E8
- Postcode sector
- E8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E8 2DQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E8
- Postcode sector
- E8 2
- Latitude
- 51.551465
- Longitude
- -0.073977
- British National Grid easting
- 533,633
- British National Grid northing
- 185,377
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Hackney · E09000012
- Electoral ward
- Shacklewell · E05009382
- Parish or community
- E43000202
- Westminster constituency
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington · E14001259
- Output area
- E00176299
- Lower layer super output area
- Hackney 014B · E01001747
- Middle layer super output area
- Hackney 014 · E02000358
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 E8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 357
- Primary
- 190
- Secondary
- 48
- 116 m
Halley House School
Free schools
- 157 m
The Excelsior Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 215 m
Shacklewell Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16,059
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,094
- Anti social behaviour 1,864
- Theft from the person 1,608
- Shoplifting 1,348
- Other theft 1,286
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E8 2 residents
- 10,133
Age bands in E8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 45.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 6.5%
1,592 residents
1,178 residents
4,591 residents
2,110 residents
661 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
128
within 5 km straight-line
SOMERFORD GROVE PRACTICE
SOMERFORD GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7UA
ODS code F84033
277 m
THE SURGERY (BARRETTS GROVE)
6 BARRETTS GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 8AR
ODS code F84636
308 m
DALSTON PRACTICE
1B MADINAH ROAD, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84063
625 m
SANDRINGHAM PRACTICE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 1A MADINAH ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84621
625 m
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
86A DALSTON LANE, LONDON, E8 3AH
ODS code F84038
641 m
MILDMAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A GREEN LANES, LONDON, N16 9NF
ODS code F83053
821 m
THE SURGERY (BROOKE ROAD)
BROOKE ROAD SURGERY, 40-42 BROOKE ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7LR
ODS code F84694
982 m
THE NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
10 KENNINGHALL ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 8BY
ODS code F84018
1.1 km
RICHMOND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
136 RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON, E8 3HN
ODS code F84035
1.1 km
QUEENSBRIDGE GROUP PRACTICE
24 HOLLY STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 3XP
ODS code F84117
1.1 km
THE MITCHISON ROAD SURGERY
2 MITCHISON ROAD, LONDON, N1 3NG
ODS code F83056
1.2 km
BARTON HOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
233 ALBION ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 9JT
ODS code F84008
1.2 km
THE MILLER PRACTICE
49 HIGHBURY NEW PARK, HIGHBURY, LONDON, N5 2ET
ODS code F83045
1.3 km
THE STATHAM GROVE SURGERY
STATHAM GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 9DP
ODS code F84115
1.3 km
DE BEAUVOIR SURGERY
30 HERTFORD ROAD, LONDON, N1 5QT
ODS code F84072
1.5 km
ATHENA MEDICAL CENTRE
21 ATHERDEN ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 0QP
ODS code F84060
1.5 km
LOWER CLAPTON GENERAL PRACTICE
THE PORTICO, 34 LINSCOTT ROAD, LONDON, E5 0RD
ODS code F84003
1.5 km
HIGHBURY GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-5 HIGHBURY GRANGE, LONDON, N5 2QB
ODS code F83660
1.5 km
SPRING HILL PRACTICE
BELFAST ROAD, LONDON, N16 6UH
ODS code Y03049
1.5 km
FOUNTAYNE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1A FOUNTAYNE ROAD, LONDON, N16 7EA
ODS code F84080
1.6 km
Showing 20 of 128 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Shacklewell Lane Dalston
BCT · Shacklewell
- 0.0 miles
Shacklewell Lane Dalston
BCT · Shacklewell
- 0.1 miles
Shacklewell Lane / Kingsland High Street
BCT · Shacklewell
- 0.1 miles
Rio Cinema
BCT · Shacklewell
- 0.1 miles
Princess May Road
BCT · Shacklewell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hackney 014B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,680 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
16,059 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,338.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,094 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.