E5 9BE Hackney

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Springfield. Region: London.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Hackney in 2026-27: Band D £2,060 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,374£1,602£1,831£2,060£2,518£2,976£3,434£4,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (45% of about 670 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): London borough of Hackney.
  • 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, 0 at medium risk and 3 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 96% 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); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. 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 stationsStoke Newington 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.0 km
Stamford Hill 676,000 journeys in 2024–251.0 km
Clapton 2.1 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km
Underground, metro or tramSeven Sisters Underground Station1.5 km
Tottenham Hale Underground Station1.9 km
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m, 32 within 800 m; nearest Osbaldeston Road Stamford Hill180 m
Bus or coach stationPark View Road (N17) Tottenham Hale2.0 km
Ferry terminalCamden Lock Waterbus Camden Town6.7 km
Car parks2 within 800 m; nearest Coppermill Fields Car Park770 m
EV charging points32 within 1.6 km; nearest ubitricity150 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY11.0 km
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR29.8 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Healy Medical Centre530 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Green Light Pharmacy290 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Davidoff Dental Surgery740 m
HospitalSt Ann's Hospital (Beh-Mht Services)2.3 km
Police stationStoke Newington Police Station1.7 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest Roth Clothing Mens & Boys Ltd Cashzone290 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m; nearest Springfield Park 14 ha30 m
Play area18 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 410 m²90 m
Playing fieldMarkfield Recreation Ground 7.6 ha900 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,950 m²260 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)19.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.2205
Particles (PM10)14.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Noise figures are still being loaded.

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: 533 residents in 143 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 age2040
Children under 1542%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van24%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle42%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)92%65%
Work 30 km or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications42%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)83%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 1 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 Spring Hill.