Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Open Box Education Centre is the nearest published school at 16 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM16 5EB
Epping West & Rural · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Epping West & Rural
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest
- Postcode district
- CM16
- Postcode sector
- CM16 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM16 5EB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM16
- Postcode sector
- CM16 5
- Latitude
- 51.699101
- Longitude
- 0.110008
- British National Grid easting
- 545,914
- British National Grid northing
- 202,146
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Epping West & Rural · E05015728
- Parish or community
- E04004015
- Westminster constituency
- Epping Forest · E14001226
- Output area
- E00110544
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 005C · E01021762
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 005 · E02004531
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
- 11
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 16 m
Open Box Education Centre
Other independent school
- 427 m
The Tower School
Other independent special school
- 492 m
Epping Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,076
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 420
- Vehicle crime 99
- Public order 96
- Criminal damage and arson 94
- Shoplifting 93
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM16 5 residents
- 3,864
Age bands in CM16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.8%
731 residents
357 residents
978 residents
986 residents
755 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY, EPPING
301 HIGH STREET, EPPING, CM16 4DA
ODS code F81072
302 m
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
THE PLAIN, EPPING, CM16 6TL
ODS code F81043
1.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Church
BCT · Epping
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Epping
- 0.1 miles
Nicholl Road
BCT · Epping
- 0.1 miles
Nicholl Road
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Epping
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 005C, 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
17,315 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,076 published events cover 12 months, averaging 89.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 420 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.