Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Tower School is the nearest published school at 139 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM16 4NL
Epping East · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Epping East
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest
- Postcode district
- CM16
- Postcode sector
- CM16 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM16 4NL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM16
- Postcode sector
- CM16 4
- Latitude
- 51.696022
- Longitude
- 0.108215
- British National Grid easting
- 545,800
- British National Grid northing
- 201,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Epping East · E05015727
- Parish or community
- E04004015
- Westminster constituency
- Epping Forest · E14001226
- Output area
- E00110509
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 006C · E01021758
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 006 · E02004532
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CM16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 3
- 139 m
The Tower School
Other independent special school
- 365 m
Open Box Education Centre
Other independent school
- 653 m
Epping St John's Church of England School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,089
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 423
- Public order 101
- Vehicle crime 100
- Criminal damage and arson 95
- Shoplifting 93
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM16 4 residents
- 4,376
Age bands in CM16 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.8%
646 residents
357 residents
1,213 residents
1,082 residents
864 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
HIGH STREET SURGERY, EPPING
301 HIGH STREET, EPPING, CM16 4DA
ODS code F81072
642 m
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
THE PLAIN, EPPING, CM16 6TL
ODS code F81043
1.6 km
ABRIDGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 37 ONGAR ROAD, ABRIDGE, ROMFORD, RM4 1UD
ODS code F81184
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Tesco Store
BCT · Epping
- 0.1 miles
Tesco Store
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Nicholl Road
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Nicholl Road
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Woodland Grove
BCT · Epping
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 006C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,646 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,089 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 423 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.