Property market
The five-year median is £740,000 from 1 recorded sale in IG2 6SY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Redbridge is £495,977 in June 2026, up 3.6% year on year.
IG2 6SY
Barkingside · Redbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ilford
- Ward
- Barkingside
- Local authority
- Redbridge
- Constituency
- Ilford North
- Postcode district
- IG2
- Postcode sector
- IG2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG2 6SY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG2
- Postcode sector
- IG2 6
- Latitude
- 51.579495
- Longitude
- 0.072710
- British National Grid easting
- 543,714
- British National Grid northing
- 188,772
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Redbridge · E09000026
- Electoral ward
- Barkingside · E05011235
- Parish or community
- E43000216
- Westminster constituency
- Ilford North · E14001300
- Output area
- E00018381
- Lower layer super output area
- Redbridge 015D · E01003653
- Middle layer super output area
- Redbridge 015 · E02000765
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 IG2
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 669, Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG2 6SY | 27 September 2022 | £740,000 |
| 657, Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG2 6SY | 19 October 2018 | £400,000 |
| 657, Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG2 6SY | 19 October 2018 | £430,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 144
- Primary
- 84
- Secondary
- 22
- 160 m
Gearies Primary School
Community school
- 168 m
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 711 m
Valentines High School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,972
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,644
- Anti social behaviour 728
- Shoplifting 523
- Vehicle crime 469
- Other theft 353
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 63
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- IG2 6 residents
- 16,104
22 female, 41 male
Age bands in IG2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.1%
3,214 residents
2,069 residents
5,420 residents
3,567 residents
1,966 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IG2 6 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
73
within 5 km
CRANBROOK SURGERY
737A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86698
181 m
THE EASTERN AVENUE MEDICAL CENTRE
737 A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86083
181 m
KENWOOD MEDICAL
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86081
219 m
THE HEATHCOTE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86624
219 m
GANTS HILL MED CTR & THE REDBRIDGE SURG
63 ETHELBERT GARDENS, GANTS HILL, ILFORD, IG2 6UP
ODS code F86008
645 m
NEWBURY GROUP PRACTICE
NEWBURY PARK HEALTH CTRE, 40 PERRYMANS FARM ROAD, NEWBURY PARK, ILFORD, IG2 7LE
ODS code F86060
983 m
THE PALMS MEDICAL CENTRE
97-101 NETLEY ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 7NW
ODS code F86009
1.1 km
THE DRIVE SURGERY
68 THE DRIVE, CRANBROOK, ILFORD, IG1 3HZ
ODS code F86652
1.6 km
ST CLEMENT'S SURGERY
38 BATHURST ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 4LA
ODS code F86702
1.8 km
GRANVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE
4 GRANVILLE ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 4JY
ODS code Y00918
1.8 km
BALFOUR ROAD SURGERY
92 BALFOUR ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 4JE
ODS code F86042
1.8 km
FULLWELL CROSS MED. CTR.
1 TOMSWOOD HILL, BARKINGSIDE, ILFORD, IG6 2HG
ODS code F86010
1.9 km
THE FULLWELL AVENUE SURGERY
272 FULLWELL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0SB
ODS code F86612
1.9 km
CLAYHALL CLINIC
14 CLAYHALL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0LG
ODS code F86691
2.0 km
THE DOCTORS HOUSE
40 CAMERON ROAD, SEVEN KINGS, ILFORD, IG3 8LF
ODS code Y00090
2.2 km
YORK ROAD SURGERY
55 YORK ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 3AF
ODS code F86657
2.3 km
FENCE PIECE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
83 FENCEPIECE ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2NB
ODS code F86707
2.4 km
SEVEN KINGS PRACTICE
1 SALISBURY ROAD, SEVEN KINGS, ILFORD, IG3 8BG
ODS code F86637
2.4 km
ILFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
61 CLEVELAND ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 1EE
ODS code F86022
2.5 km
OAK TREE MEDICAL CENTRE
273-275 GREEN LANE, ILFORD, IG3 9TJ
ODS code F86025
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 73 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Icknield Drive
BCT · Gants Hill
- 0.1 miles
Gantshill Crescent
BCT · Gants Hill
- 0.1 miles
Martley Drive
BCT · Gants Hill
- 0.1 miles
Shere Road
BCT · Gants Hill
- 0.2 miles
Hamilton Avenue
BCT · Barkingside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Redbridge 015D, 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
14,262 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
- 0
- 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
Schools
144 open schools are in scope, including 84 primary and 22 secondary schools. Gearies Primary School is the nearest published school at 160 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4,972 published events cover 12 months, averaging 414.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,644 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.