E5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

663 of the district's 1,194 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 51.55927, -0.05357, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in E5

Companies House lists 5,443 companies with a registered office in E5; 938 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 E5

• London
• Greater London
• Hackney
• Waltham Forest

Roads filed under E5

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.

• Adley Street
• Alcester Crescent
• Alconbury Road
• Alfearn Road
• Almack Road
• Apprentice Way
• Ashenden Road
• Atherden Road
• Athlone Close
• Bakers Hill
• Baslow Walk
• Belz Terrace
• Big Hill
• Blackwell Close
• Blurton Road
• Boscombe Close
• Brackenfield Close
• Brampton Close
• Briggeford Close
• Broadway Mews
• Brooke Road
• Caldecott Way
• Casimir Road
• Chailey Street
• Charnock Road
• Charnwood Street
• Chatsworth Road
• Chiltern Place
• Chippendale Street
• Chowdhury Walk
• Churchill Walk
• Clapton Passage
• Clapton Square
• Clapton Terrace
• Clapton Way
• Clarence Mews
• Clarence Place
• Clarence Road
• Cleveleys Road
• Clifden Mews
• Clifden Road
• Colenso Road
• College Close
• Colne Road
• Comberton Road
• Cornthwaite Road
• Cotesbach Road
• Cricketfield Road
• Cromford Path
• Crossway Terrace
• Cypress Close
• Daubeney Road
• Della Path
• Denton Way
• Detmold Road
• Downs Lane
• Downs Road
• Dudlington Road
• Dunlace Road
• Dunnock Mews

Check an address in E5

Check an address in E5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=E5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about E5

What does an E5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the E5 district of the E (East London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 663 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 E5

• N161.6 km
• E91.9 km
• E81.9 km
• E102.9 km
• N53.2 km
• N153.2 km
• E203.3 km
• E23.4 km
• N43.7 km
• E173.8 km
• N13.8 km
• E34.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids