Schools
93 open schools are in scope, including 51 primary and 15 secondary schools. West Hatch High School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG7 5BU
Chigwell with Lambourne · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest
- Postcode district
- IG7
- Postcode sector
- IG7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG7 5BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG7
- Postcode sector
- IG7 5
- Latitude
- 51.612482
- Longitude
- 0.062961
- British National Grid easting
- 542,935
- British National Grid northing
- 192,421
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Chigwell with Lambourne · E05015726
- Parish or community
- E04004039
- Westminster constituency
- Epping Forest · E14001226
- Output area
- E00110485
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 016D · E01021752
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 016 · E02004542
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 IG7
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 93
- Primary
- 51
- Secondary
- 15
- 0 m
West Hatch High School
Academy converter
- 380 m
St John's RC School (Essex)
Non-maintained special school
- 639 m
Luxborough Court School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,131
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 358
- Vehicle crime 201
- Anti social behaviour 171
- Other theft 81
- Burglary 76
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IG7 5 residents
- 9,027
Age bands in IG7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- 1,719 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- 1,001 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- 2,525 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- 2,228 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
- 1,583 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
33
within 5 km straight-line
CHIGWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
300 FENCEPIECE ROAD, ILFORD, IG6 2TA
ODS code F81062
1.6 km
THE FULLWELL AVENUE SURGERY
272 FULLWELL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0SB
ODS code F86612
1.9 km
HAINAULT SURGERY
34 NEW NORTH ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2XG
ODS code F86085
2.0 km
THE RIVER SURGERY
16 ROUS ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 6BN
ODS code F81216
2.0 km
FENCE PIECE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
83 FENCEPIECE ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2NB
ODS code F86707
2.0 km
PALMERSTON ROAD SURGERY
18 PALMERSTON ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LT
ODS code F81165
2.0 km
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
2.1 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
2.1 km
FULLWELL CROSS MED. CTR.
1 TOMSWOOD HILL, BARKINGSIDE, ILFORD, IG6 2HG
ODS code F86010
2.5 km
CLAYHALL CLINIC
14 CLAYHALL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0LG
ODS code F86691
2.5 km
THE FOREST EDGE PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86007
2.9 km
THE WILLOWS & DRIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86057
2.9 km
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
3.0 km
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
3.3 km
THE ELMHURST PRACTICE
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86064
3.3 km
SOUTHDENE SURGERY
THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86066
3.3 km
THE SHRUBBERIES MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86641
3.3 km
GLEBELANDS PRACTICE
2 GLEBELANDS AVENUE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2AB
ODS code F86020
3.5 km
KENWOOD MEDICAL
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86081
3.5 km
THE HEATHCOTE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86624
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 33 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 144 m
West Hatch School
BCT · Chigwell
- 152 m
West Hatch School
BCT · Chigwell
- 484 m
Club House
BCT · Chigwell
- 524 m
Club House
BCT · Chigwell
- 614 m
Love Lane (IG8)
BCT · Woodford Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 016D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,485 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
Recorded crime
1,131 published events cover 12 months, averaging 94 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 358 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.