Casterton Street Hackney

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (E8), about 20 m long. USRN 20900207.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £685,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Hackney costs £2,060 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hackney Central, about 220 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 180 m away, and Hackney Downs (17 hectares) is about 780 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 23.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 16 to 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 8 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Richmond Road Medical Centre, about 590 m (0.4 miles) away, with 18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 37% of households owned their home and 72% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 778 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20231£685,000£685,000£685,000
20121£285,000£285,000£285,000
20071£215,000£215,000£215,000
20041£145,000£145,000£145,000
20031£149,995£149,995£149,995
20002£86,250£85,000£87,500
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Sep 202343 E8 1BNTerraced£685,000
8 Oct 201844 E8 1BNOther£24,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 201343 E8 1BNTerraced£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Jun 2012FLAT 1, 44 E8 1BNFlat or maisonette£285,000Leasehold.
12 Oct 2007FLAT 2, 44 E8 1BNFlat or maisonette£215,000Leasehold.
14 May 2004FLAT 2, 44 E8 1BNFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
16 Sep 2003FLAT 1, 44 E8 1BNFlat or maisonette£149,995Leasehold.
26 Apr 2000FLAT 1, 44 E8 1BNFlat or maisonette£87,500Leasehold.
24 Mar 2000FLAT 2, 44 E8 1BNFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: House, detached (1); Flat (1). Built: 2007-2011 (1); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2).

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 street: most are in band B (30% of about 860 homes).

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 street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): A4D Non-residential to residential, Hackney Central, Hackney Central Major Town Centre, 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 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
E8 1BNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
E8 1DYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 8 addresses are between 16 m and 17 m above sea level (17 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
E8 1BN100%100%100%0%
E8 1DY100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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 stationsHackney Central 5.3 million journeys in 2024–25220 m
Hackney Downs 3.0 million journeys in 2024–25400 m (0.2 miles)
London Fields 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25490 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 66 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Graham Road / Hackney Central140 m
Bus or coach stationPark View Road (N17) Tottenham Hale4.9 km (3 miles)
Ferry terminalTower Pier Tower Hill4.4 km (2.8 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dalston Lane Car Park800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points67 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity470 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY9.1 km (5.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR29.1 km (18 miles)

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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Richmond Road Medical Centre590 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies28 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Marijak LTD190 m
NHS dentists23 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hackney Dental Practice140 m
HospitalHomerton University Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationStoke Newington Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines10 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M & B Supermarket Cashzone250 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 middle of the street 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 garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hackney Downs 17 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 200 m²130 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3,020 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 200 m²780 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 34 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Hackney Empire, a listed building (Grade II*), 160 m east. 142 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Hackney EmpireListed building, Grade II*160 m east
Old Tower of Former Church of St AugustineListed building, Grade I350 m north-east
Church of St JohnListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) north-east
The New Lansdowne ClubListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) south
Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's CanalScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Bethnal Green GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's LaneScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site4.3 km (2.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Clapton PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Hackney CutLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Main MarshWetland2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Wick FieldWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
New RiverLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Limehouse CutTidal water4.1 km (2.6 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. 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)23.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.8205
Particles (PM10)16.54015

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

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: 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, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, 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, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
65 to 69040
60 to 64030
55 to 59610
Under 55208

6 of the street's 8 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 8 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Hackney: see them on the Hackney page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary SchoolSecondary11–19310 m Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mossbourne Parkside AcademyPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Gayhurst Community SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morningside Primary SchoolPrimary2–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Olive School, Hackney MuslimPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St John and St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mossbourne Community AcademySecondary11–18710 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
The City Academy, HackneySecondary11–19750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cardinal Pole Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–19760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St John of Jerusalem Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Berger Primary SchoolPrimary2–11920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Florfield Home E8 1DWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m4 Good15 Mar 2025
Sea Salt Food and Wine E8 1BPRetailers - other140 m5 Very good11 Nov 2024
Sutton and Sons E8 1BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good2 Apr 2025
Somi's Grill E8 1BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good11 Oct 2025
Old Ship Hackney E8 1ENPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good8 Apr 2025
Bun & Sum E8 1BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 mAwaiting inspection
Hackney Empire Trading Limited E8 1EJRetailers - other180 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
Great Indian Food E8 1BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good4 Feb 2025
Grapes & Hops E8 1BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good5 May 2026
Britannia Restaurant E8 1EJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m2 Improvement necessary29 Sep 2026
Empire Supermarket E8 1EJRetailers - other190 m5 Very good5 May 2026
Baba doner E8 1EJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m2 Improvement necessary13 Feb 2026
Original PFC E8 1EJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Dec 2025
Dammy African Store E8 1BPRetailers - other190 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Jul 2026
Ash News E8 1EJRetailers - other200 m5 Very good8 Apr 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

778 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour213
Violence and sexual offences154
Theft from the person75
Public order59
Vehicle crime48
Other theft42
Burglary38
Shoplifting35
Bicycle theft32
Criminal damage and arson29
Robbery27
Drugs18
Other crime5
Possession of weapons3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Valette Street (142); On or near Sojourner-Truth Close (107); On or near Nightclub (90); On or near Marvin Street (73); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (73).

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 street's postcodes are in: 358 residents in 163 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 streetEngland
Median age3440
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)37%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership8%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented31%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work79%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)66%32%
Travel to work by car or van3%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)90%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)72%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street 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.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • E8 1BN: 7 addresses
  • E8 1DY: 1 address of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Penpoll Road · Hillman Street · Horton Road · Florfield Passage · Florfield Road · Sylvester Path · Reading Lane · Eleanor Road · Hackney Grove · Royal Oak Road · Sylvester Road · Malpas Road

All the streets in E8 and across Hackney.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.