Schools
83 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 14 secondary schools. Chigwell School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG7 5DG
Grange Hill · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Grange Hill
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest
- Postcode district
- IG7
- Postcode sector
- IG7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG7 5DG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG7
- Postcode sector
- IG7 5
- Latitude
- 51.616540
- Longitude
- 0.077085
- British National Grid easting
- 543,900
- British National Grid northing
- 192,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Grange Hill · E05015729
- Parish or community
- E04004039
- Westminster constituency
- Epping Forest · E14001226
- Output area
- E00110570
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 017D · E01021767
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 017 · E02004543
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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 83
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 14
- 1.0 km
Chigwell School
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
West Hatch High School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Limes Farm Infant School and Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,134
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 435
- Vehicle crime 165
- Anti social behaviour 117
- Criminal damage and arson 87
- Other theft 78
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%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
1,719 residents
1,001 residents
2,525 residents
2,228 residents
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
28
within 5 km straight-line
CHIGWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
300 FENCEPIECE ROAD, ILFORD, IG6 2TA
ODS code F81062
1.3 km
HAINAULT SURGERY
34 NEW NORTH ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2XG
ODS code F86085
1.7 km
FENCE PIECE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
83 FENCEPIECE ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2NB
ODS code F86707
1.9 km
THE FOREST EDGE PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86007
2.1 km
THE WILLOWS PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86057
2.1 km
THE RIVER SURGERY
16 ROUS ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 6BN
ODS code F81216
2.2 km
THE FULLWELL AVENUE SURGERY
272 FULLWELL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0SB
ODS code F86612
2.3 km
FULLWELL CROSS MED. CTR.
1 TOMSWOOD HILL, BARKINGSIDE, ILFORD, IG6 2HG
ODS code F86010
2.5 km
PALMERSTON ROAD SURGERY
18 PALMERSTON ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LT
ODS code F81165
2.5 km
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
2.6 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
3.2 km
CLAYHALL CLINIC
14 CLAYHALL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0LG
ODS code F86691
3.3 km
THE LOUGHTON SURGERY
25 TRAPS HILL, LOUGHTON, IG10 1SZ
ODS code F81136
3.8 km
LOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE
THE DRIVE, LOUGHTON, IG10 1HW
ODS code F81048
3.9 km
KENWOOD MEDICAL
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86081
3.9 km
THE HEATHCOTE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86624
3.9 km
CRANBROOK SURGERY
737A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86698
4.0 km
THE EASTERN AVENUE MEDICAL CENTRE
737 A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86083
4.0 km
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
4.0 km
FOREST PRACTICE
26 PYRLES LANE, LOUGHTON, IG10 2NH
ODS code F81152
4.3 km
Showing 20 of 28 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Chase
BCT · Grange Hill
- 0.1 miles
The Chase
BCT · Grange Hill
- 0.1 miles
Chigwell Underground Station
PLT · Chigwell
- 0.1 miles
Chigwell Underground Station
PLT · Chigwell
- 0.1 miles
Hainault Grove
BCT · Grange Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 017D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,520 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,134 published events cover 12 months, averaging 94.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 435 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.