Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ongar Primary School is the nearest published school at 64 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM5 0FH
Ongar · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ongar
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar
- Postcode district
- CM5
- Postcode sector
- CM5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM5 0FH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2010
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM5
- Postcode sector
- CM5 0
- Latitude
- 51.713442
- Longitude
- 0.237981
- British National Grid easting
- 554,708
- British National Grid northing
- 204,004
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Ongar · E05015735
- Parish or community
- E04004027
- Westminster constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar · E14001125
- Output area
- E00110759
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 004D · E01021802
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 004 · E02004530
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 CM5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 64 m
Ongar Primary School
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- 839 m
The Ongar Academy
Free schools
- 1.6 km
Chipping Ongar Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 371
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 169
- Anti social behaviour 37
- Other theft 26
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Public order 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM5 0 residents
- 5,934
Age bands in CM5 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,098 residents
639 residents
1,353 residents
1,671 residents
1,180 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
ONGAR HEALTH CENTRE
ONGAR WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, FYFIELD ROAD, ONGAR, CM5 0AL
ODS code F81049
695 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Aukingford Gardens
BCT · Ongar
- 0.1 miles
Aukingford Gardens
BCT · Ongar
- 0.3 miles
The Rosary
BCT · Bobbingworth
- 0.3 miles
Cripsey Avenue
BCT · Ongar
- 0.3 miles
The Rosary
BCT · Bobbingworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 004D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,016 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
371 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 169 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.