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On Carpenters Road, in Carpenters Estate & Stratford New Town
What it's like at E15 2JH: every home that has sold on Carpenters Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Carpenters Road; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 13 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 16, Carpenters RoadTerraced | Nov 2003 | £210,000 | 82 m² | £2,561/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18, Carpenters RoadTerraced | Oct 2009 | £250,000 | 84 m² | £2,976/m² | 1 |
| 22, Carpenters RoadTerraced | Oct 2025 | £330,000 | 75 m² | £4,400/m² | 2 |
| 24, Carpenters RoadTerraced | Mar 2016 | £585,000 | 136 m² | £4,301/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 51% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Stratford High Street DLR station, a few minutes' walk (300 m). The nearest rail station is Stratford (London), 500 m away, with 51.5m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Carpenters Primary School, 50 m away, with a bus about every 11 minutes on weekdays (route 108); 170 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 27% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 7 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 9 km away as the crow flies.
66% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Carpenters Primary School, a few minutes' walk (100 m); 62% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Colegrave Primary School (0.6 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Bobby Moore Academy, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 45.6 · 10.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Forest Gate Community School (1.9 km) and St Bonaventure's RC School (2.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Woodford County High School (7.2 km) and Ilford County High School (7.7 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 300 m away, with Collins Newsagents Ta Mapsons Ltd (previously Londis) closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Carpenters Practice (150 m), with Newgen Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, P&A Beauty is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Homerton University Hospital, 3.0 km away, rated outstanding by the CQC.
At its trust, 79% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 73% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 86 restaurants and cafés and 6 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Carpenters Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Carpenters Arms the nearest pub (under 50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 575 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
62 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Stratford and Bow constituency: Uma Kumaran MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 11,634 (26.8%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Green Party 17%, Workers Party of Britain 8%, Conservative 7%.
96 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near E15 2JH →
Homes are mostly flats (77%).
It's new: 73% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 1,303 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Channelsea Path, 500 m away; for exercise, City Bouldering Stratford (100 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Mens Pond), 11 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 20.7 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 5.8 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 32 km.
Many neighbours rent: 43% of households rent privately and 24% socially.
It's young: 38% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 57% of adults have a degree.
There's a sizeable student population: 19% of adults were full-time students in 2021.
The nearest university is Ravensbourne University London, 4.1 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Carpenters Road in the last 12 months.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 40 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 5 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.0% | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 21.0% | 65.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.7% | 9.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 69.3% | 24.2% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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