What's the median rent in Tower Hamlets 020B?

The median monthly rent across Tower Hamlets 020B is £2,396.

How safe is Tower Hamlets 020B?

Tower Hamlets 020B has a safety score of 15/100 out of 100, where higher is safer.

How well-connected is Tower Hamlets 020B?

Transport score: 99/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.

Which neighbourhood is Tower Hamlets 020B part of?

Tower Hamlets 020B sits inside the Poplar Central neighbourhood, in Tower Hamlets, London.

Sub-area · Poplar Central · Tower Hamlets · London

Living in Tower Hamlets 020B

Part of Poplar Central · 2,034 residents

Tower Hamlets 020B is a sub-area in Poplar Central, Tower Hamlets that skews 18–34 year-old and social-rent dominant. Median rent sits at £2,396 a month, up 1.8% on the year, with council tax in band B adding roughly £153/mo. Safety ranks in the top quartile of UK sub-areas (11th percentile nationally). Gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

Median rent

£2,396+1.8%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Liveability

33/100

Composite score

Safety

15/100

Higher is safer

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Transport

99/100

Transit + walk

Schools

98/100

Ofsted-weighted

Ofsted inspections · Feb 2026

Broadband

100%

gigabit-ready

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025 · 2025

Who lives here

Age structure, tenure mix and dwelling type from Census 2021.

Age structure

Under 1822%

18–3437%

35–4919%

50–6413%

65+10%

Population2,034

Tenure & housing type

Owner-occupied17%

Private rent29%

Social rent53%

Flats79%

Terraced14%

Semi-detached5%

Detached2%

Detailed community breakdownHouseholds · ethnicity · religion · country of birth · health · qualifications

Household composition

One person35%Couple with children17%Lone parent11%Other23%

Ethnic mix

Diversity index 64.40

White37%Asian46%Black10%Mixed4%Other4%

Religion (Census 2021, voluntary question)

Christian26%Muslim44%No religion18%Other4%

Country of birth

Born in UK56%

Born outside UK44%

General health (self-reported)

Good78%Fair15%Bad7%

Disability prevalence19%

Education attainment (residents 16+)

Degree or above36%

Apprenticeship3%

No qualifications22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (TS001 / TS006 / TS044).

Cost

An all-in monthly cost estimate for Tower Hamlets 020B comes to about £2,648 — combining rent, council tax (band B), and an EPC-based utility estimate.

Affordability score

50/100· 36th percentile nationally

All-in monthly

£2,648

Rent + council tax + utility estimate

Median rent (any size)£2,396/mo+1.8%

2-bed median rent£2,362/mo

Council tax (estimated)£1,641/yr

Sale price (median)£352,500-11.6%

Price-to-earnings7.8×

Rent / take-home64%

EPC median bandC

Yield (gross BTL)8.0%

Detailed cost breakdownRent by bedroom & property type · sale prices · affordability

Rent by bedroom count

median monthly

1 bed£1,946/mo

2 bed£2,362/mo+1.7%

3 bed£2,681/mo

4 bed£3,308/mo

Rent by property type

median monthly

Detached£3,006/mo

Semi-detached£2,933/mo

Terraced£2,673/mo

Flat£2,231/mo

Sale price by property type

HPI average price

All properties (HPI avg)£455,307-11.6%

Detached£920,161

Semi-detached£681,156

Terraced£694,897

Flat£437,710-11.9%

Sales (Land Registry, lifetime)9

Lower quartile sale£300,000

Upper quartile sale£580,000

Affordability & running costs

Years to save 10% deposit3.9 yr

Mortgage (25y, 5%)£1,855/mo

Price / earnings (HPI vs ASHE)10.1×

Council tax — Band D billing£1,327/yr

Council tax — Band D incl. precepts£1,838/yr

Modal council tax bandB

Fuel poverty (LILEE)10.3%

EPC homes rated A/B10%

Source: Rent: ONS PIPR, May 2026. Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.

Property

EPC band distribution, council tax band mix and recent supply per 1,000 residents.

EPC median

C band

Modal council tax bandB

Completions / 1,00012.4

Detailed housing breakdownCouncil tax bands · EPC stock · supply pipeline

Council tax band distribution

640 dwellings · VOA CTSOP

Band A3%Band B33%Band C33%Band D25%Band E6%

Modal bandB

Total dwellings640

Band D — billing only£1,327/yr

Band D — incl. all precepts£1,838/yr

Estimated for this local area's mix£1,641/yr

EPC stock

Median EPC bandC

% rated A or B10%

EPC certificates lodged50

Housing supply pipeline

MHCLG, FY 2024-25, council-area level fanned to local area

Completions (annual)1,500

Starts (annual)20

Completions / 1,000 households12.4

Pipeline ratio (starts / completions)0.01

Source: EPC: MHCLG bulk download. Council tax bands: VOA CTSOP 1.1.

Safety

How crime here compares to the England + Wales average. The raw rate per 1,000 residents per year is shown alongside for reference.

How crime is measured

What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.

Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.

Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.

ContextRates are per resident. As a major workday and tourist destination, the daytime population here is much larger than the resident base — so the per-resident figure overstates a typical resident's exposure.

Safety score

15/100· 11th percentile nationally

Total / 1k / yr212.311th percentile nationally

Violent / 1k / yr40.5

Burglary / 1k / yr10.2

ASB / 1k / yr29.8

All crime categories14 categories ranked by local rate

Incidents per 1,000 residents per year

Sorted high → low. Hover any category for what it covers.

Shoplifting

46.9

Violent & sexual offences

40.5

Anti-social behaviour

29.8

Vehicle crime

19.0

Other theft

13.2

Public order

11.7

Criminal damage & arson

11.2

Burglary

10.2

Theft from the person

8.3

Robbery

7.8

Drugs

7.3

Other crime

2.4

Possession of weapons

2.4

Bicycle theft

1.5

Personal safety (composite)

Personal-safety index per 1k50.8

IMD crime sub-domain (lower = safer)0.93

Source: Crime: data.police.uk monthly counts, normalised by population. National avg = England + Wales population-weighted mean.

Transport

Distance to the nearest rail station, plus modelled commute time to a major employment centre.

Transport score

99/100· 97th percentile nationally

Nearest rail730 m (Canary Wharf)

Nearest tube/metro355 m

PT to 5,000+ jobs hub—

Drive to 5,000+ jobs—

Detailed transport breakdownCity commutes · job accessibility · how residents travel to work

Commute time to major cities

public transport, off-peak typical

London

9 min

Birmingham

98 min

Bristol

109 min

Cardiff

130 min

Sheffield

139 min

Manchester

148 min

Leeds

150 min

Liverpool

158 min

Edinburgh

264 min

Glasgow

293 min

Job accessibility from this area

Minutes to reach N jobs by car / public transport

Drive — 100 jobs reachable6 min

PT — 100 jobs reachable5 min

Drive — 500 jobs reachable6 min

PT — 500 jobs reachable2 min

Drive — 5,000 jobs reachable9 min

PT — 5,000 jobs reachable14 min

How residents travel to work

Census 2021 mode share

Car11%Public37%Active16%WFH34%

Source: Rail: National Rail / TfL ATCO. Commute: DfT Journey Time Statistics.

Schools

Distribution of Ofsted ratings amongst schools serving this area.

School score

98/100

Outstanding100%

Good0%

Schools in catchment2

Nearest outstanding38 m

Detailed school breakdownFull Ofsted distribution · distances · catchment counts

Ofsted rating distribution

schools whose postcode falls in this local area

Outstanding100%

Outstanding (count)2

Good (count)0

Requires improvement (count)0

Inadequate (count)0

Schools within walking distance

Schools within 2 km43

Good or outstanding within 2 km19

% within 2 km that are good/outstanding44%

Nearest school38 m

Nearest good or outstanding38 m

Nearest outstanding38 m

Source: Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.

Jobs

Local jobs density and pay levels. Workplace pay reflects what jobs in this area pay; residence pay reflects what residents earn.

Jobs per resident1.11

Median salary£45,183/yr

Workplace salary£59,974/yr

Claimant count6.7%-0.1pp

Detailed jobs & earnings breakdownSector mix · pay percentiles · economic activity · occupations · qualifications

Jobs by sector

% of local jobs (BRES — figure is the same across all neighbourhoods in this council area)

Finance & insurance

21.1%

Professional & business svcs

18.0%

Tech & ICT

12.8%

Retail & hospitality

11.4%

Health & social care

7.7%

Education

5.6%

Construction

1.6%

Manufacturing

0.8%

Total jobs (latest)376,000

Jobs growth — 5 year+9.9%

Jobs growth — year on year+3.6%

Net commute flow343,307

Pay percentiles — what residents earn

ASHE residence analysis, gross earnings

Lower quartile (annual)£29,237/yr

Median (annual)£45,183/yr

Mean (annual)£60,317/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£70,615/yr

Median weekly£856/wk

Median hourly£23.90/hr

Pay percentiles — what local jobs pay

ASHE workplace analysis

Lower quartile (annual)£36,513/yr

Median (annual)£59,974/yr

Mean (annual)£89,873/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£99,090/yr

Median weekly£1,122/wk

Median hourly£31.20/hr

Economic activity (Census 2021)

ILO unemployment 11.2% · 16+ residents

ILO unemployment rate: 11.2% · 56% economically active — Unemployed as a share of the economically active population (employed + job-seeking), matching the ONS Labour Force Survey definition. Inactive residents are excluded from the denominator.

Employed49%Unemployed6%Inactive45%

Census 2021 TS066: all residents aged 16+ split into three non-overlapping groups. Inactive covers students, retirees, full-time carers and the long-term sick — together these bars always sum to 100%. The ILO unemployment rate above strips out inactive residents, giving a figure comparable to the national headline rate.

Working-age population1,406

DWP claimants (people)17,275

DWP claimant rate6.7%

Claimant YoY change-0.1pp

DWP claimant count tracks 16-64 residents on Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. It's narrower than Census "unemployed" (which includes anyone actively job-seeking, claiming or not) but updates monthly so it's the most current local indicator.

Occupation mix

working residents

Professional45%Service21%Manual17%

Qualifications

Census 2021, residents 16+

Degree or above36%

Apprenticeship3%

No qualifications22%

Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings + Business Register and Employment Survey + DWP claimant count.

Connectivity

Share of premises with each broadband tier available, latest Ofcom Connected Nations data.

Gigabit availability

100%

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)100%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s0.0%

Broadband + mobile coverage detailGranular speed tiers · 4G / 5G indoor & outdoor

Fixed-line broadband — coverage by tier

Gigabit-capable100%

≥300 Mbit/s available100%

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)100%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s premises0.0%

Mobile coverage

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025

4G indoor — any operator100%

4G indoor — all operators100%

5G outdoor — any operator100%

Voice indoor — any operator100%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, postcode-level coverage aggregated to local area.

Environment

Air quality (annual mean concentrations), flood risk, and walkable greenspace.

PM2.5 annual mean—

NO₂ annual mean—

Flood risk zone3

Greenspace within 300m100%

Parks within 1km12.1

Detailed environment breakdownGreenspace access · AHAH composite indices

Greenspace access (ONS, April 2020)

Distance to nearest greenspace140 m

Greenspaces within 1 km12.1

Combined greenspace area10.0 ha

Postcodes within 300 m of a park100%

AHAH — Access to Healthy Assets & Hazards

CDRC national percentile, higher = healthier neighbourhood

Overall AHAH

96 pct

Health services

6 pct

Green & blue space

29 pct

Air quality

99 pct

Retail hazards

96 pct

Source: Air: Defra UK-AIR PCM Background. Flood: Environment Agency. Greenspace: ONS access study (April 2020).

Healthcare

Walking distance to the nearest GP, hospital and dentist.

Nearest GP284 m

Nearest hospital1.4 km

Nearest dentist284 m

Fuel poverty10.3%

Detailed healthcare breakdownGP capacity · counts within walking distance · dental supply

GP supply

GP practices within 1 km7

GP practices within 3 km55

Patients per local GP5,178

Catchment concentration (HHI)4,804

Dental & hospital supply

Dentists within 3 km58

Dental UDA / 1k pop (ICB level)1375

Hospitals within 5 km10

Nearest urgent care1.3 km

Population health context

Self-reported good health78%

Self-reported bad health7%

Disability prevalence19%

IMD health sub-domain1.03

Source: NHS ODS / CQC Locations + nearest-feature distance from local area centroid.

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Going deeper

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What's it like to rent in Tower Hamlets 020B?

Tower Hamlets 020B sits inside Poplar Central, part of the wider Tower Hamlets council area in London. Editorial copy will replace this scaffold once the team has reviewed the area in person — until then the data tabs above are the authoritative reference.

Strengths and trade-offs

Read the dimensional ranks above for the canonical view of where this sub-area excels and where it lags. Any qualitative spin should follow from those numbers.

Who is Tower Hamlets 020B for?

Renters most likely to thrive here are those whose priorities align with the area's strongest scores. The demographics tab gives the clearest read — age profile, tenure mix and household composition are usually the best predictor of who'll feel at home on which streets.

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Frequently asked

What's the median rent in Tower Hamlets 020B?: The median monthly rent across Tower Hamlets 020B is £2,396.
How safe is Tower Hamlets 020B?: Tower Hamlets 020B has a safety score of 15/100 out of 100, where higher is safer.
How well-connected is Tower Hamlets 020B?: Transport score: 99/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.
Which neighbourhood is Tower Hamlets 020B part of?: Tower Hamlets 020B sits inside the Poplar Central neighbourhood, in Tower Hamlets, London.

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