Tower Hamlets
Tower Hamlets is covered by postcode districts E1, E1W, E2, E3, E9, E14 and 10 more. It is mostly in the Tower Hamlets council area: 5,905 of its 5,957 postcodes. The others are in Hackney, City of London and Islington.
Every postcode in Tower Hamlets, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 540
- In use before 2020: 5,417
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 5,957 postcodes in Tower Hamlets that ONS places, 540 are new since 2020 and 5,417 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.5171, longitude -0.0393. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 70 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. E3 2LT, is the newest of them.
- 68 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. E1W 9YD, is the newest of them.
- 43 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. E14 8TR, is the newest of them.
- 39 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. E2 2LT, is the newest of them.
- 25 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. E14 1EN, is the newest of them.
- 17 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. E14 5GZ, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Tower Hamlets?
Homes sold for a typical £465,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 10.6% on the 12 months before. At 3,877 of the 5,467 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,318 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,061 of its 5,957 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Limehouse, 500 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Tower Hamlets?
Homes in Tower Hamlets sold for a typical £465,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,826 sales, down 10.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached 3 sales, too few to price
- Semi-detached £760,000 9 sales
- Terraced £832,500 177 sales
- Flat or maisonette £445,000 1,637 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole E14 district, Tower Hamlets's main postcode district: a typical £458,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Tower Hamlets: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Tower Hamlets?
540 of the 5,957 postcodes now in use in Tower Hamlets came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 668 of the 3,085 homes sold in Tower Hamlets were newly built (22%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the E14 district, 29%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Tower Hamlets | Across the E14 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 79 of 1,826 (4%) | 41 of 639 (6%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 668 of 3,085 (22%) | 354 of 1,211 (29%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Tower Hamlets?
Ofcom reports on 5,467 of the 5,957 postcodes in Tower Hamlets. At 3,877 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Tower Hamlets at risk of flooding?
1,061 of the 5,957 postcodes in Tower Hamlets have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1,318 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Tower Hamlets?
The open schools at the postcodes in Tower Hamlets (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Cayley Primary School100 m 388 pupils, 492 places
- Halley Primary School250 m 194 pupils, 240 places
- Ben Jonson Primary School450 m 591 pupils, 697 places
- The Hamlet School450 m 93 pupils, 104 places
- Sir William Burrough Primary School550 m 294 pupils, 360 places
- Marion Richardson Primary School550 m 465 pupils, 510 places
- Stepney Greencoat Church of England Primary School650 m 189 pupils, 240 places
- Solebay Primary - A Paradigm Academy650 m 170 pupils, 350 places
Secondary
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Tower Hamlets?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Tower Hamlets is Limehouse Rail Station, 500 m away in a straight line.
- Limehouse Rail Station Railway station 500 mWalk
- Shadwell Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
- Whitechapel Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
- Limehouse DLR Station Underground, metro or tram 500 mWalk
- Stepney Green Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 750 mWalk
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Tower Hamlets?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Tower Hamlets, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Harford Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7791 3966 150 mWalk
- The Jubilee Street Practice Ltd Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report March 2026 · Phone 020 7780 8000 850 mWalk
- Xx Place Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7167 2828 900 mWalk
- The Limehouse Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7515 2211 1.0 kmWalk
- City Square Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2026 · Phone 020 7488 4240 1.2 kmWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Tower Hamlets safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 19,816 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Tower Hamlets over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 1,604 September 2025
- 1,565 October 2025
- 1,590 November 2025
- 1,429 December 2025
- 1,414 January 2026
- 1,383 February 2026
- 1,625 March 2026
- 1,652 April 2026
- 1,856 May 2026
- 1,820 June 2026
- 1,928 July 2026
- 1,950 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 1,014, criminal damage and arson 559, robbery 532, bicycle theft 439, other crime 215, possession of weapons 143.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Tower Hamlets?
- Councils
- Tower Hamlets (5,905), Hackney (24), City of London (17) and 1 other
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Poplar and Limehouse (2,523), Bethnal Green and Stepney (2,505), Stratford and Bow (877) and 3 others
- Police force areas
- Metropolitan Police (5,940) and City of London (17)
- Region
- London
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Tower Hamlets
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Tower Hamlets is in Tower Hamlets; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Tower Hamlets about council tax Council tax, on towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Tower Hamlets
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Tower Hamlets postcodes
5,957 postcodes in use in Tower Hamlets, by district:
Those districts are in the E postcode area and EC postcode area.
Check a Tower Hamlets postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Tower Hamlets
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Tower Hamlets's £465,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Tower Hamlets
- What is it like to live in Tower Hamlets?
- Homes sold for a typical £465,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 10.6% on the 12 months before. At 3,877 of the 5,467 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,318 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,061 of its 5,957 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Limehouse, 500 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Tower Hamlets?
- Tower Hamlets is covered by postcode districts E1, E1W, E2, E3, E9, E14 and 10 more, across 5,957 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Tower Hamlets?
- Homes in Tower Hamlets sold for a typical £465,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,826 sales, down 10.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Tower Hamlets?
- In Tower Hamlets, primary schools at its postcodes include Cayley Primary School, Halley Primary School and Ben Jonson Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College, Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School and Mazahirul Uloom London School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Tower Hamlets have a railway station?
- Yes: Limehouse is 500 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Tower Hamlets, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Tower Hamlets?
- Ofcom reports on 5,467 of the 5,957 postcodes in Tower Hamlets. At 3,877 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Tower Hamlets at risk of flooding?
- 1,061 of the 5,957 postcodes in Tower Hamlets have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1,318 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Tower Hamlets?
- 540 of the 5,957 postcodes now in use in Tower Hamlets came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 668 of the 3,085 homes sold in Tower Hamlets were newly built (22%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the E14 district, 29%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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