Schools
368 open schools are in scope, including 197 primary and 48 secondary schools. Halley House School is the nearest published school at 288 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E8 2LQ
Dalston · Hackney · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dalston
- Local authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch
- Postcode district
- E8
- Postcode sector
- E8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E8 2LQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2002
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E8
- Postcode sector
- E8 2
- Latitude
- 51.549690
- Longitude
- -0.074816
- British National Grid easting
- 533,580
- British National Grid northing
- 185,178
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Hackney · E09000012
- Electoral ward
- Dalston · E05009370
- Parish or community
- E43000202
- Westminster constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch · E14001260
- Output area
- E00176220
- Lower layer super output area
- Hackney 030A · E01033699
- Middle layer super output area
- Hackney 030 · E02007108
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 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 368
- Primary
- 197
- Secondary
- 48
- 288 m
Halley House School
Free schools
- 306 m
The Excelsior Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 368 m
The Children's House School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16,539
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,213
- Anti social behaviour 1,953
- Theft from the person 1,629
- Shoplifting 1,383
- Other theft 1,336
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- 3 female, 4 male
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- E8 2 residents
- 10,133
Age bands in E8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- 1,592 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- 1,178 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 45.3%
- 4,591 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.8%
- 2,110 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 6.5%
- 661 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E8 2 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
128
within 5 km straight-line
THE SURGERY (BARRETTS GROVE)
6 BARRETTS GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 8AR
ODS code F84636
368 m
SOMERFORD GROVE PRACTICE
SOMERFORD GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7UA
ODS code F84033
482 m
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
86A DALSTON LANE, LONDON, E8 3AH
ODS code F84038
494 m
DALSTON PRACTICE
1B MADINAH ROAD, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84063
571 m
MILDMAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A GREEN LANES, LONDON, N16 9NF
ODS code F83053
816 m
QUEENSBRIDGE GROUP PRACTICE
24 HOLLY STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 3XP
ODS code F84117
944 m
RICHMOND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
136 RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON, E8 3HN
ODS code F84035
981 m
SANDRINGHAM PRACTICE
RICHMOND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE, 136 RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON, E8 3HN
ODS code F84621
981 m
THE MITCHISON ROAD SURGERY
2 MITCHISON ROAD, LONDON, N1 3NG
ODS code F83056
1.0 km
THE SURGERY (BROOKE ROAD)
BROOKE ROAD SURGERY, 40-42 BROOKE ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7LR
ODS code F84694
1.2 km
THE MILLER PRACTICE
49 HIGHBURY NEW PARK, HIGHBURY, LONDON, N5 2ET
ODS code F83045
1.2 km
DE BEAUVOIR SURGERY
30 HERTFORD ROAD, LONDON, N1 5QT
ODS code F84072
1.3 km
THE NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
10 KENNINGHALL ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 8BY
ODS code F84018
1.3 km
THE STATHAM GROVE SURGERY
STATHAM GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 9DP
ODS code F84115
1.3 km
BARTON HOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
233 ALBION ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 9JT
ODS code F84008
1.4 km
HIGHBURY GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-5 HIGHBURY GRANGE, LONDON, N5 2QB
ODS code F83660
1.5 km
ATHENA MEDICAL CENTRE
21 ATHERDEN ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 0QP
ODS code F84060
1.6 km
LOWER CLAPTON GENERAL PRACTICE
THE PORTICO, 34 LINSCOTT ROAD, LONDON, E5 0RD
ODS code F84003
1.6 km
ELIZABETH AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
2 ELIZABETH AVENUE, ISLINGTON, LONDON, N1 3BS
ODS code F83012
1.7 km
LONDON FIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
38-44 BROADWAY MARKET, LONDON, E8 4QJ
ODS code F84021
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 128 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 50 m
Rio Cinema
BCT · Shacklewell
- 72 m
Rio Cinema
BCT · Shacklewell
- 100 m
Dalston Kingsland Station
BCT · Kingsland
- 103 m
Crossway (N16)
BCT · Shacklewell
- 112 m
Crossway / Kingsland High Street
BCT · Shacklewell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hackney 030A, 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
7,293 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Recorded crime
16,539 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,378 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,213 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.