Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hereward Primary School is the nearest published school at 263 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG10 2LS
Loughton Fairmead · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Loughton Fairmead
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest
- Postcode district
- IG10
- Postcode sector
- IG10 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG10 2LS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG10
- Postcode sector
- IG10 2
- Latitude
- 51.659620
- Longitude
- 0.081946
- British National Grid easting
- 544,100
- British National Grid northing
- 197,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Loughton Fairmead · E05015730
- Parish or community
- E04004040
- Westminster constituency
- Epping Forest · E14001226
- Output area
- E00110632
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 011D · E01021777
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 011 · E02004537
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 IG10
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 263 m
Hereward Primary School
Academy converter
- 378 m
Davenant Foundation School
Academy converter
- 748 m
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,277
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 548
- Anti social behaviour 118
- Criminal damage and arson 101
- Public order 86
- Vehicle crime 82
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IG10 2 residents
- 9,844
Age bands in IG10 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.9%
1,859 residents
1,199 residents
2,782 residents
2,707 residents
1,383 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
FOREST PRACTICE
26 PYRLES LANE, LOUGHTON, IG10 2NH
ODS code F81152
709 m
THE LOUGHTON SURGERY
25 TRAPS HILL, LOUGHTON, IG10 1SZ
ODS code F81136
1.9 km
LOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE
THE DRIVE, LOUGHTON, IG10 1HW
ODS code F81048
2.2 km
ABRIDGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 37 ONGAR ROAD, ABRIDGE, ROMFORD, RM4 1UD
ODS code F81184
2.9 km
THE RIVER SURGERY
16 ROUS ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 6BN
ODS code F81216
4.0 km
PALMERSTON ROAD SURGERY
18 PALMERSTON ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LT
ODS code F81165
4.5 km
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Castell Road
BCT · Debden
- 0.0 miles
Castell Road
BCT · Debden
- 0.1 miles
Colebrook Lane
BCT · Debden
- 0.1 miles
Colebrook Lane
BCT · Debden
- 0.2 miles
Chandler Road
BCT · Debden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 011D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,533 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,277 published events cover 12 months, averaging 106.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 548 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.