Tower Hamlets
Typical price
£465,000
-19% on 5 years ago
Sales in the last year
2,240
September 2025 to August 2026 · prices +2% on 10 years ago
Sales take a few months to be recorded, so the latest months are still coming in and this figure will rise.
People
310,306
At the 2021 census
New-build homes sold
598
In 2025, 18% of the homes sold
Find a street or place in Tower Hamlets
Type a street or a town and tap it to go to its page.
No street or place by that name has had a sale here in the last few years.
Prices over time
The typical sale each year in Tower Hamlets.
By type of home
The typical price of each, over the last year.
The towns in Tower Hamlets
Each town and neighbourhood with its typical price over the last two years, lowest typical price first. Tap one for its own page.
No town or area by that name in Tower Hamlets.
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Rising fastest
How much the typical price has changed in five years.
Streets
Streets of houses across the whole of Tower Hamlets, from the last five years' sales.
The market
How many homes sold in Tower Hamlets each year, and how many were new-build homes sold.
Homes sold in 2025
3,308
8% fewer than 2024. 21% below the ten-year average.
New-build homes sold in 2025
598
18% of the homes sold.
Whole years only: 2025 is the last full year, and nearly every sale in it has now been recorded. This year will show once it is over.
New-build homes sold counts only new homes sold to a buyer. Homes built for the council or a housing association, blocks built to rent out, and most shared ownership homes are not sold this way, so more homes are built each year than this shows.
All homes sold New-build homes sold
Living in Tower Hamlets
The best-known places, getting around and the council.
Things to do
Photo: Bob Collowan · CC BY-SA 3.0
MuseumTower of London
Visit website ↗
Photo: Thomas Kelly · Public domain
AttractionCrown Jewels of the United Kingdom
Visit website ↗
Photo: Bex Walton · CC BY 4.0
MuseumYoung V&A
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Photo: Michael Coppins · CC BY-SA 4.0
ChurchChurch of St Peter ad Vincula
Photo: Panhard · CC BY 2.5
AttractionSt Katharine Docks
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Photo: Graeme Maclean · CC BY 2.0
LandmarkBalfron Tower
Photo: Ham · CC BY-SA 3.0
Art galleryWhitechapel Gallery
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Photo: The wub · CC BY-SA 4.0
PierBlackwall Pier
Getting around
The council
Who lives here
The people and homes of Tower Hamlets, at the last census in 2021.
The people
310,306 people
Ages
Aged 16 and over
The homes
120,539 households
How they are held
2.5 people in a typical home. 32% live alone.
66% of households have no car.
Typical pay
£52,000 a year
Before tax, for someone living here working full time.
Full-fibre broadband
79% of homes
can get gigabit broadband.
Crime
155 a year for every 1,000 people
Up 2% on the year before, the twelve months September 2025 to August 2026.
Schools
Rated Outstanding or Good at their latest one-word Ofsted grade, given in the last five years. Ofsted stopped giving one-word grades in September 2024.
Primary
Secondary
Council tax
What each band costs in Tower Hamlets, 2026 to 2027.