E2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

979 of the district's 1,648 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 51.52964, -0.06262, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in E2

Companies House lists 5,571 companies with a registered office in E2; 1,290 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 E2

• Greater London
• London
• Tower Hamlets
• Bethnal Green
• Hackney
• Stepney

Roads filed under E2

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.

• Ada Place
• Ainsley Street
• Allgood Street
• Appleby Street
• Approach Road
• Arnold Circus
• Audrey Street
• Austin Street
• Bacon Street
• Bacton Street
• Bakers Rents
• Barnet Grove
• Baroness Road
• Basing Place
• Bath Grove
• Baxendale Street
• Bessy Street
• Bethnal Green Road
• Birkbeck Street
• Bishop's Way
• Blackbird Yard
• Blythe Street
• Boat Lane
• Bonner Road
• Bonner Street
• Boundary Pass
• Boundary Street
• Braintree Street
• Brierly Gardens
• Bryant Street
• Buckfast Street
• Bullards Place
• Burnham Estate
• Burnham Street
• Butler Street
• Cadell Close
• Calvert Avenue
• Cambridge Crescent
• Cambridge Heath Road
• Camlet Street
• Canal Path
• Canrobert Street
• Caroline Gardens
• Centre Street
• Cester Street
• Chambord Street
• Chance Street
• Cheshire Street
• Chester Street
• Chilton Street
• Claredale Street
• Clare Street
• Clarkson Street
• Club Row
• Coate Street
• Columbia Road
• Corbridge Crescent
• Corfield Street
• Corner Three Colts
• Cornwall Avenue

Check an address in E2

Check an address in E2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=E2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about E2

What does an E2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the E2 district of the E (East London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bethnal Green. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 979 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 E2

• E11.4 km
• E81.6 km
• EC2A1.7 km
• EC2M2.0 km
• EC3A2.1 km
• E92.2 km
• EC1Y2.2 km
• EC3N2.2 km
• EC2N2.2 km
• E1W2.3 km
• EC3M2.4 km
• EC2Y2.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids