Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Tower School is the nearest published school at 119 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM16 5EQ
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM16 5EQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM16
- Postcode sector
- CM16 5
- Latitude
- 51.695175
- Longitude
- 0.105282
- British National Grid easting
- 545,600
- British National Grid northing
- 201,700
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
- E00110517
- 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
- 15
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 3
- 119 m
The Tower School
Other independent special school
- 480 m
Epping St John's Church of England School
Academy sponsor led
- 541 m
Open Box Education Centre
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,043
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 405
- Vehicle crime 99
- Public order 94
- Shoplifting 93
- Criminal damage and arson 88
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
HIGH STREET SURGERY, EPPING
301 HIGH STREET, EPPING, CM16 4DA
ODS code F81072
842 m
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
THE PLAIN, EPPING, CM16 6TL
ODS code F81043
1.8 km
ABRIDGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 37 ONGAR ROAD, ABRIDGE, ROMFORD, RM4 1UD
ODS code F81184
4.9 km
FOREST PRACTICE
26 PYRLES LANE, LOUGHTON, IG10 2NH
ODS code F81152
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Tesco Store
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Bury Lane
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Tesco Store
BCT · Epping
- 0.2 miles
Bury Lane
BCT · Epping
- 0.3 miles
Sunnyside Road
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
1,043 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 405 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.