Schools
196 open schools are in scope, including 117 primary and 26 secondary schools. Apex Primary School is the nearest published school at 120 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG1 3BL
Valentines · Redbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ilford
- Ward
- Valentines
- Local authority
- Redbridge
- Constituency
- Ilford North
- Postcode district
- IG1
- Postcode sector
- IG1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG1 3BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG1
- Postcode sector
- IG1 3
- Latitude
- 51.563058
- Longitude
- 0.063941
- British National Grid easting
- 543,158
- British National Grid northing
- 186,927
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Redbridge · E09000026
- Electoral ward
- Valentines · E05011253
- Parish or community
- E43000216
- Westminster constituency
- Ilford North · E14001300
- Output area
- E00019004
- Lower layer super output area
- Redbridge 029C · E01003785
- Middle layer super output area
- Redbridge 029 · E02000779
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 IG1
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 115, Northbrook Road, Ilford, IG1 3BL | 17 May 2021 | £515,000 |
| 99, Northbrook Road, Ilford, IG1 3BL | 11 August 2020 | £360,000 |
| 93, Northbrook Road, Ilford, IG1 3BL | 25 July 2017 | £435,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 196
- Primary
- 117
- Secondary
- 26
- 120 m
Apex Primary School
Other independent school
- 211 m
Read Academy Education
Other independent school
- 371 m
Apex Secondary School for Boys
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,923
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,768
- Anti social behaviour 999
- Theft from the person 755
- Other theft 738
- Vehicle crime 698
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 63
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- IG1 3 residents
- 17,103
29 female, 34 male
Age bands in IG1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.2%
3,386 residents
2,203 residents
5,678 residents
3,875 residents
2,109 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IG1 3 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
101
within 5 km
YORK ROAD SURGERY
55 YORK ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 3AF
ODS code F86657
454 m
GRANVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE
4 GRANVILLE ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 4JY
ODS code Y00918
489 m
THE DRIVE SURGERY
68 THE DRIVE, CRANBROOK, ILFORD, IG1 3HZ
ODS code F86652
565 m
ST CLEMENT'S SURGERY
38 BATHURST ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 4LA
ODS code F86702
628 m
BALFOUR ROAD SURGERY
92 BALFOUR ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 4JE
ODS code F86042
832 m
ILFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
61 CLEVELAND ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 1EE
ODS code F86022
971 m
THE MANOR PARK PRACTICE
778 ROMFORD ROAD, LONDON, E12 5JG
ODS code F84729
1.1 km
SANGAM PRACTICE
1 TORONTO AVENUE, LONDON, E12 5JF
ODS code F84658
1.2 km
GANTS HILL MED CTR & THE REDBRIDGE SURG
63 ETHELBERT GARDENS, GANTS HILL, ILFORD, IG2 6UP
ODS code F86008
1.5 km
MATHUKIA'S SURGERY
281 ILFORD LANE, ILFORD, IG1 2SF
ODS code F86692
1.7 km
ALDERSBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
65 ALDERSBROOK ROAD, MANOR PARK, LONDON, E12 5DL
ODS code F86731
1.8 km
E12 HEALTH
30 CHURCH ROAD, MANOR PARK, LONDON, E12 6AQ
ODS code F84121
1.8 km
NEWHAM TRANSITIONAL PRACTICE
30 CHURCH ROAD, THE CENTRE, MANOR PARK, LONDON, E12 6AQ
ODS code F84740
1.8 km
AT MEDICS - THE LOXFORD PRACTICE
LOXFORD POLYCLINIC, 417 ILFORD LANE, ILFORD, IG1 2SN
ODS code Y02987
2.1 km
ILFORD LANE SURGERY
1ST FLOOR ,LOXFORD POLYCLINIC, 417 ILFORD LANE, ILFORD, IG1 2SN
ODS code F86082
2.1 km
CRANBROOK SURGERY
737A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86698
2.1 km
THE EASTERN AVENUE MEDICAL CENTRE
737 A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86083
2.1 km
THE DOCTORS HOUSE
40 CAMERON ROAD, SEVEN KINGS, ILFORD, IG3 8LF
ODS code Y00090
2.1 km
KENWOOD MEDICAL
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86081
2.1 km
THE HEATHCOTE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86624
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 101 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Northbrook Road
BCT · Cranbrook
- 0.1 miles
Northbrook Road
BCT · Cranbrook
- 0.2 miles
Coventry Road
BCT · Ilford
- 0.2 miles
Coventry Road
BCT · Ilford
- 0.2 miles
Cranbrook Road (IG1)
BCT · Cranbrook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Redbridge 029C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,719 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 20
- 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
8,923 published events cover 12 months, averaging 743.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,768 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.