E8 2FT Hackney

Live postcode, introduced September 2024. Ward: Dalston. Region: London.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

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.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£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 D (46% of about 570 homes).

A2%

B11%

C35%

D46%

E7%

G0%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), 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: 2.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): A4D Non-residential to residential, Dalston, East of Dalston Major Town Centre, East of Dalston Major Town Centre, London borough of Hackney.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

57, DALSTON LANE E8, grade II
ST BARTHOLOMEW'S VICARAGE, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

154 Dalston Lane, permissioned (270 m)
2-16 Ashwin Street, 11-15 Dalston Lane, not permissioned (280 m)
Birkbeck Mews, not permissioned (350 m)
59-61 Kingsland High Street E8 2JS, permissioned (390 m)
The BT Telephone Exchange, Kingsland Green, Dalston: up to 67 homes, not permissioned (450 m)
Land to the R/O 130-134 Richmond Road, permissioned (530 m)
Kerridge Court Estate: up to 90 homes, not permissioned (570 m)
91 Barratts Grove N16 8AP, permissioned (650 m)

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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

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

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Dalston Junction 5.6 million journeys in 2024–25	360 m
	Dalston Kingsland 5.3 million journeys in 2024–25	390 m
	Hackney Downs 3.0 million journeys in 2024–25	680 m
Bus stops	18 stops within 400 m, 65 within 800 m; nearest Graham Road (E8) Dalston	80 m
Bus or coach station	London St Pancras Megabusplus	4.3 km
Ferry terminal	Tower Pier Tower Hill	4.4 km
Car parks	5 within 800 m; nearest Kingsland Shopping Car Park	40 m
EV charging points	81 within 1.6 km; nearest ubitricity	160 m
Airport with scheduled flights	London City Airport LCY	9.9 km
Nearest large airport	London Heathrow Airport LHR	28.4 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	20 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Beechwood Medical Centre	140 m
Pharmacies	23 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Devs Chemist	200 m
NHS dentists	23 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dalston Lane (Dental Surgery)	140 m
Hospital	Homerton University Hospital	1.7 km
Police station	Stoke Newington Police Station	1.2 km
Cash machines	9 machines within 800 m; nearest T F C Dalston Cashzone	110 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	8 within 800 m; nearest Dalston Eastern Curve Garden 1,590 m²	190 m
Largest park within 800 m	Hackney Downs 17 ha	680 m
Play area	28 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 120 m²	250 m
Playing field	Unnamed 3,020 m²	1.6 km
Allotments	1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 200 m²	320 m

Within 800 m: 8 parks and gardens, 30 hectares in all.

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: 493 residents in 242 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 postcode	England
Median age	31	40
Children under 15	9%	17%
Aged 65 and over	1%	18%

Homes

	Around this postcode	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	4%	61%
Owned outright	0%	33%
Shared ownership	3%	1%
Social rented	34%	17%
Private rented	59%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this postcode	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	72%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	10%	6%
Retired (of adults)	2%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	5%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	63%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	2%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	9%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	23%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	10%	10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)	82%	65%
Work 30 km or more away	10%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this postcode	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	64%	34%
No qualifications	6%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	2%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	80%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	2%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 4 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.