Schools
56 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 10 secondary schools. Oaklands School is the nearest published school at 294 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG10 4EJ
Loughton Forest · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Loughton Forest
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest
- Postcode district
- IG10
- Postcode sector
- IG10 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG10 4EJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG10
- Postcode sector
- IG10 4
- Latitude
- 51.643685
- Longitude
- 0.047090
- British National Grid easting
- 541,739
- British National Grid northing
- 195,860
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Loughton Forest · E05015731
- Parish or community
- E04004040
- Westminster constituency
- Epping Forest · E14001226
- Output area
- E00110652
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 014C · E01021782
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 014 · E02004540
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
- 56
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 10
- 294 m
Oaklands School
Other independent school
- 621 m
Roding Valley High School
Academy converter
- 999 m
Staples Road Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,197
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 425
- Shoplifting 140
- Vehicle crime 126
- Anti social behaviour 93
- Criminal damage and arson 84
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IG10 4 residents
- 4,735
Age bands in IG10 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 21%
778 residents
457 residents
1,114 residents
1,435 residents
1,003 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
LOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE
THE DRIVE, LOUGHTON, IG10 1HW
ODS code F81048
792 m
THE LOUGHTON SURGERY
25 TRAPS HILL, LOUGHTON, IG10 1SZ
ODS code F81136
1.1 km
THE RIVER SURGERY
16 ROUS ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 6BN
ODS code F81216
1.7 km
PALMERSTON ROAD SURGERY
18 PALMERSTON ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LT
ODS code F81165
1.9 km
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
2.0 km
FOREST PRACTICE
26 PYRLES LANE, LOUGHTON, IG10 2NH
ODS code F81152
2.3 km
LARKSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 LARKSHALL ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7HS
ODS code F86664
3.6 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
4.0 km
KINGS HEAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
178 KINGS HEAD HILL, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7NX
ODS code F86700
4.1 km
THE OLD CHURCH SURGERY
SILVERTHORN CENTRE, 2 FRIARS CLOSE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 6UN
ODS code F86616
4.2 km
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
4.3 km
THE RIDGEWAY SURGERY
1 MOUNT ECHO AVENUE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7JX
ODS code F86078
4.4 km
CHIGWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
300 FENCEPIECE ROAD, ILFORD, IG6 2TA
ODS code F81062
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Upper Park
BCT · Loughton
- 0.2 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Loughton
- 0.2 miles
The Crown
BCT · Loughton
- 0.2 miles
Spring Grove
BCT · Loughton
- 0.2 miles
The Crown
BCT · Loughton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 014C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,863 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,197 published events cover 12 months, averaging 99.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 425 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.