Schools
370 open schools are in scope, including 198 primary and 47 secondary schools. Halley House School is the nearest published school at 346 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E8 2LS
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 2LS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E8
- Postcode sector
- E8 2
- Latitude
- 51.548984
- Longitude
- -0.074557
- British National Grid easting
- 533,600
- British National Grid northing
- 185,100
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
- E00176323
- Lower layer super output area
- Hackney 020F · E01035640
- Middle layer super output area
- Hackney 020 · E02000364
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
- 370
- Primary
- 198
- Secondary
- 47
- 346 m
Halley House School
Free schools
- 357 m
The Excelsior Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 379 m
The Children's House School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17,120
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,351
- Anti social behaviour 1,997
- Theft from the person 1,672
- Other theft 1,419
- Shoplifting 1,392
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
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
86A DALSTON LANE, LONDON, E8 3AH
ODS code F84038
421 m
THE SURGERY (BARRETTS GROVE)
6 BARRETTS GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 8AR
ODS code F84636
440 m
DALSTON PRACTICE
1B MADINAH ROAD, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84063
529 m
SANDRINGHAM PRACTICE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 1A MADINAH ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 1PG
ODS code F84621
529 m
SOMERFORD GROVE PRACTICE
SOMERFORD GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7UA
ODS code F84033
553 m
QUEENSBRIDGE GROUP PRACTICE
24 HOLLY STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 3XP
ODS code F84117
863 m
MILDMAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A GREEN LANES, LONDON, N16 9NF
ODS code F83053
865 m
RICHMOND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
136 RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON, E8 3HN
ODS code F84035
911 m
THE MITCHISON ROAD SURGERY
2 MITCHISON ROAD, LONDON, N1 3NG
ODS code F83056
991 m
DE BEAUVOIR SURGERY
30 HERTFORD ROAD, LONDON, N1 5QT
ODS code F84072
1.2 km
THE MILLER PRACTICE
49 HIGHBURY NEW PARK, HIGHBURY, LONDON, N5 2ET
ODS code F83045
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 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
1.4 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
1.6 km
LOWER CLAPTON GENERAL PRACTICE
THE PORTICO, 34 LINSCOTT ROAD, LONDON, E5 0RD
ODS code F84003
1.6 km
ATHENA MEDICAL CENTRE
21 ATHERDEN ROAD, CLAPTON, LONDON, E5 0QP
ODS code F84060
1.6 km
ELIZABETH AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
2 ELIZABETH AVENUE, ISLINGTON, LONDON, N1 3BS
ODS code F83012
1.6 km
LONDON FIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
38-44 BROADWAY MARKET, LONDON, E8 4QJ
ODS code F84021
1.6 km
Showing 20 of 128 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Dalston Kingsland Station
BCT · Kingsland
- 0.1 miles
Dalston Kingsland Station
BCT · Kingsland
- 0.1 miles
Dalston Kingsland Station
RSE · Kingsland
- 0.1 miles
Dalston Kingsland Rail Station
RLY · Kingsland
- 0.1 miles
Rio Cinema
BCT · Shacklewell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hackney 020F, 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
8,534 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
17,120 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,426.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,351 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.