E3 3SU Tower Hamlets

Live postcode, introduced November 2014. Ward: Bromley South. Region: London.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Tower Hamlets in 2026-27: Band D £1,838 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,225£1,429£1,634£1,838£2,246£2,655£3,063£3,676

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (41% of about 790 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 80 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers). Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWest Ham 11 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km
Canary Wharf 16 million journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Stratford (London) 51 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km
Underground, metro or tramBromley-by-Bow Underground Station230 m
Devons Road DLR Station270 m
Bow Church DLR Station590 m
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m, 41 within 800 m; nearest Bromley-By-Bow Bromley By Bow160 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus7.7 km
Ferry terminalEast India Pier2.1 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY5.3 km
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR31.5 km

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 273 residents in 140 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age2940
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over0%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)24%61%
Owned outright4%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented67%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work86%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)0%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)68%32%
Travel to work by car or van3%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram22%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)74%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)64%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Hannaford Walk.