E17 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,531 of the district's 2,766 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.58696, -0.02084, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in E17

Companies House lists 15,152 companies with a registered office in E17; 5,416 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for E17

• Waltham Forest
• Greater London
• London
• Walthamstow
• Leyton

Roads filed under E17

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbey Mews
• Acacia Road
• Academy Way
• Addison Road
• Alander Mews
• Albany Road
• Albert Road
• Albion Road
• Alexandra Road
• Amber Avenue
• Ansar Gardens
• Arden Mews
• Ardleigh Road
• Ardleigh Terrace
• Arkley Crescent
• Arkley Road
• Ascham End
• Ashford Close
• Aubrey Road
• Aubrey Way
• Aveling Park Road
• Avondale Road
• Avon Road
• Back Road
• Badlis Road
• Bakers Avenue
• Banbury Road
• Barclay Path
• Barclay Road
• Barrett Road
• Beaconsfield Road
• Beacontree Avenue
• Beatrice Road
• Beaumans Drive
• Bedford Road
• Belgrave Road
• Belle Vue Road
• Bemsted Road
• Beresford Road
• Berry Field Close
• Betts Mews
• Beulah Path
• Beulah Road
• Billet Road
• Bishop's Close
• Bistern Avenue
• Blackberry Close
• Blackhorse Lane
• Blackhorse Road
• Blenheim Road
• Blyth Road
• Boleyn Court
• Borwick Avenue
• Boston Road
• Bosworth Close
• Boundary Avenue
• Boundary Road
• Bowdon Road
• Bramley Close
• Brandon Road

Check an address in E17

Check an address in E17

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=E17" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about E17

What does an E17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the E17 district of the E (East London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Walthamstow. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,531 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest E17

• E102.2 km
• E113.1 km
• E183.2 km
• N173.7 km
• E53.8 km
• E44.0 km
• N154.2 km
• N184.4 km
• E204.6 km
• IG84.7 km
• N164.7 km
• E95.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids