Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Tower School is the nearest published school at 202 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM16 5EF
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 5EF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM16
- Postcode sector
- CM16 5
- Latitude
- 51.697845
- Longitude
- 0.106853
- British National Grid easting
- 545,700
- British National Grid northing
- 202,000
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
- E00110547
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 005D · E01021763
- 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
- 12
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 3
- 202 m
The Tower School
Other independent special school
- 250 m
Open Box Education Centre
Other independent school
- 525 m
Epping Primary School
Community school
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 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
HIGH STREET SURGERY, EPPING
301 HIGH STREET, EPPING, CM16 4DA
ODS code F81072
560 m
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
THE PLAIN, EPPING, CM16 6TL
ODS code F81043
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Tesco Store
BCT · Epping
- 0.1 miles
Tesco Store
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Nicholl Road
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Nicholl Road
BCT · Epping
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 005D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,689 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
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.