Schools
130 open schools are in scope, including 80 primary and 18 secondary schools. Oaks Park High School is the nearest published school at 527 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG6 1BL
Aldborough · Redbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ilford
- Ward
- Aldborough
- Local authority
- Redbridge
- Constituency
- Ilford North
- Postcode district
- IG6
- Postcode sector
- IG6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG6 1BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG6
- Postcode sector
- IG6 1
- Latitude
- 51.581521
- Longitude
- 0.085793
- British National Grid easting
- 544,614
- British National Grid northing
- 189,023
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Redbridge · E09000026
- Electoral ward
- Aldborough · E05011234
- Parish or community
- E43000216
- Westminster constituency
- Ilford North · E14001300
- Output area
- E00018341
- Lower layer super output area
- Redbridge 013A · E01003639
- Middle layer super output area
- Redbridge 013 · E02000763
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 IG6
Property
27 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 20, Sherwood Road, Ilford, IG6 1BL | 31 October 2018 | £408,000 |
| 27, Sherwood Road, Ilford, IG6 1BL | 6 June 2018 | £480,000 |
| 23, Sherwood Road, Ilford, IG6 1BL | 30 June 2017 | £396,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 130
- Primary
- 80
- Secondary
- 18
- 527 m
Oaks Park High School
Community school
- 590 m
Fullwood Primary School
Community school
- 631 m
Newbury Park Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,217
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,347
- Anti social behaviour 594
- Shoplifting 525
- Vehicle crime 352
- Other theft 325
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 64
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 3.8
- IG6 1 residents
- 10,513
31 female, 33 male
Age bands in IG6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.2%
1,878 residents
1,089 residents
2,898 residents
2,164 residents
1,443 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IG6 1 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
60
within 5 km
THE PALMS MEDICAL CENTRE
97-101 NETLEY ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 7NW
ODS code F86009
540 m
NEWBURY GROUP PRACTICE
NEWBURY PARK HEALTH CTRE, 40 PERRYMANS FARM ROAD, NEWBURY PARK, ILFORD, IG2 7LE
ODS code F86060
566 m
CRANBROOK SURGERY
737A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86698
856 m
THE EASTERN AVENUE MEDICAL CENTRE
737 A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86083
856 m
KENWOOD MEDICAL
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86081
954 m
THE HEATHCOTE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86624
954 m
FULLWELL CROSS MED. CTR.
1 TOMSWOOD HILL, BARKINGSIDE, ILFORD, IG6 2HG
ODS code F86010
1.5 km
GANTS HILL MED CTR & THE REDBRIDGE SURG
63 ETHELBERT GARDENS, GANTS HILL, ILFORD, IG2 6UP
ODS code F86008
1.6 km
THE DOCTORS HOUSE
40 CAMERON ROAD, SEVEN KINGS, ILFORD, IG3 8LF
ODS code Y00090
1.9 km
THE FULLWELL AVENUE SURGERY
272 FULLWELL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0SB
ODS code F86612
1.9 km
FENCE PIECE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
83 FENCEPIECE ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2NB
ODS code F86707
2.1 km
SEVEN KINGS PRACTICE
1 SALISBURY ROAD, SEVEN KINGS, ILFORD, IG3 8BG
ODS code F86637
2.1 km
BALFOUR ROAD SURGERY
92 BALFOUR ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 4JE
ODS code F86042
2.2 km
ST CLEMENT'S SURGERY
38 BATHURST ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 4LA
ODS code F86702
2.2 km
GOODMAYES MEDICAL CENTRE
4 EASTWOOD ROAD, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 8XB
ODS code F86087
2.3 km
GRANVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE
4 GRANVILLE ROAD, ILFORD, IG1 4JY
ODS code Y00918
2.3 km
HAINAULT SURGERY
34 NEW NORTH ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2XG
ODS code F86085
2.3 km
THE DRIVE SURGERY
68 THE DRIVE, CRANBROOK, ILFORD, IG1 3HZ
ODS code F86652
2.3 km
OAK TREE MEDICAL CENTRE
273-275 GREEN LANE, ILFORD, IG3 9TJ
ODS code F86025
2.4 km
GROVE SURGERY
200 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4YU
ODS code Y00155
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 60 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
Aldwych Avenue
BCT · Newbury Park
- 0.1 miles
Aldwych Avenue
BCT · Newbury Park
- 0.1 miles
Princes Road Barkingside
BCT · Barkingside
- 0.2 miles
Princes Road Barkingside
BCT · Barkingside
- 0.2 miles
Hamilton Avenue Newbury Park
BCT · Newbury Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Redbridge 013A, 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
14,760 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Recorded crime
4,217 published events cover 12 months, averaging 351.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,347 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.