Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ongar Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM5 9LN
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM5 9LN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 September 2001
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM5
- Postcode sector
- CM5 9
- Latitude
- 51.711880
- Longitude
- 0.204537
- British National Grid easting
- 552,403
- British National Grid northing
- 203,760
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
- E04004014
- Westminster constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar · E14001125
- Output area
- E00110718
- 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
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.3 km
Ongar Primary School
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- 2.3 km
St Andrew's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.6 km
Chipping Ongar Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Vehicle crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM5 9 residents
- 5,850
Age bands in CM5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.6%
989 residents
557 residents
1,186 residents
1,651 residents
1,506 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
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Old Station Approach
BCT · Greensted Green
- 0.1 miles
Old Station Approach
BCT · Greensted Green
- 0.2 miles
Penson's Lane
BCT · Greensted Green
- 0.2 miles
Penson's Lane
BCT · Greensted Green
- 0.8 miles
Blake Hall Road
BCT · Bobbingworth
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
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.