Walk Bethnal Green from Columbia Road Flower Market outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 88% of the 13,403 households in E2 live in flats, 12% in houses.
Private renting sits at 34% and owner-occupation at 23%; the first group books furniture disposal at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — which is why London Borough of Tower Hamlets kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in Bethnal Green is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in E2, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — measured on the walk in from Bethnal Green (Central, Overground) rather than assumed from a map.
Two streets can behave very differently in Bethnal Green: columbia Road's flower market, the museum of childhood and dense terraces and estates. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Bethnal Green sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, sunday market closures, LTN filters and tower blocks with a single small lift — one reason two crew and a Luton van; three where a wardrobe or corner sofa has to come down a shared stairwell. Fitters travelling in use Bethnal Green (Central, Overground).
