Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Ongar Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM5 0PU
Rural East · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rural East
- 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 0PU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM5
- Postcode sector
- CM5 0
- Latitude
- 51.728716
- Longitude
- 0.249524
- British National Grid easting
- 555,453
- British National Grid northing
- 205,727
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Rural East · E05015737
- Parish or community
- E04004024
- Westminster constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar · E14001125
- Output area
- E00110724
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 003B · E01021796
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 003 · E02004529
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
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
The Ongar Academy
Free schools
- 1.8 km
Dr Walker's CofE Primary School
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- 1.9 km
Ongar Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 119
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 57
- Vehicle crime 12
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Other theft 7
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
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Shelley Church
BCT · Ongar
- 0.5 miles
Shelley Church
BCT · Ongar
- 0.6 miles
Forest Drive
BCT · Fyfield
- 0.7 miles
The Gables
BCT · Ongar
- 0.9 miles
Cripsey Avenue
BCT · Ongar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 003B, 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
14,967 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
119 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 57 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.