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On Wapping High Street, in Tower Hill & Wapping South
What it's like at E1W 1NJ: every home that has sold on Wapping High Street 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
8 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 20 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Wapping High Street; 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.
26 of the 757 homes on the street are owned by companies (3 overseas).
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 68% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bermondsey Underground station, about a 10-minute walk (700 m). The nearest rail station is Wapping, 700 m away, with 2.5m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Hermitage Wall, 150 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (route 100); 40 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% 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 9 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 5 km away as the crow flies.
58% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Hermitage Primary School, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 77% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Bigland Green Primary School (0.8 km), with 9 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is St Michael's Catholic College, 500 m away; Attainment 8: 58 · 23% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Mulberry School for Girls (1 km) and Swanlea School (1.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (12.1 km) and Woodford County High School (12.6 km).
Few families with young children: only 11% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 300 m away; Origin Oils (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is St. Katherine'S Dock Practice (350 m), with City Dock Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, The Ivy Hair and Beauty is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal London Hospital, 1.5 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 61% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 33 restaurants and cafés and 8 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Smiths Wapping is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and Town of Ramsgate the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (8 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 160 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
67 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.
Poplar and Limehouse constituency: Apsana Begum MP (Labour), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 12,560 (29.2%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 43%, Green Party 14%, Conservative 11%, Independent 11%.
44 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 E1W 1NJ →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Much of it is protected: 69% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (The Tower, Wapping Pierhead).
There are 72 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (91%).
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Hellings Street Open Space, 50 m away; for exercise, John Orwell Sports Centre (300 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 7.4 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 25.3 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 7.7 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 27 km.
Many neighbours rent: 47% of households rent privately and 13% socially.
It's young: 23% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 70% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Northeastern University - London, 350 m away (TEF Bronze).
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.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 757 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 588 homes with certificates have solar panels, 23 a heat pump, and 450 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.5% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 43.3% | 36.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 42.0% | 22.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 13.1% | 39.1% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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