Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ongar Primary School is the nearest published school at 202 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM5 0FJ
Ongar · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ongar
- 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 0FJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2011
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM5
- Postcode sector
- CM5 0
- Latitude
- 51.715456
- Longitude
- 0.238428
- British National Grid easting
- 554,732
- British National Grid northing
- 204,229
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Barker Way, Ongar, CM5 0FJ | 13 December 2011 | £94,000 |
| 12, Barker Way, Ongar, CM5 0FJ | 21 October 2011 | £58,750 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 202 m
Ongar Primary School
Academy converter
- 730 m
The Ongar Academy
Free schools
- 1.8 km
High Ongar Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 356
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 159
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Other theft 26
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Public order 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 40
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- CM5 0 residents
- 5,934
21 female, 19 male
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
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM5 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
ONGAR HEALTH CENTRE
ONGAR WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, FYFIELD ROAD, ONGAR, CM5 0AL
ODS code F81049
569 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Cripsey Avenue
BCT · Ongar
- 0.2 miles
Cripsey Avenue
BCT · Ongar
- 0.2 miles
Aukingford Gardens
BCT · Ongar
- 0.2 miles
Aukingford Gardens
BCT · Ongar
- 0.3 miles
Hospital
BCT · Ongar
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.
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
356 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 159 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.