Schools
72 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 11 secondary schools. Wells Park School is the nearest published school at 639 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG7 6LU
Grange Hill · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chigwell
- Ward
- Grange Hill
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest
- Postcode district
- IG7
- Postcode sector
- IG7 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG7 6LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG7
- Postcode sector
- IG7 6
- Latitude
- 51.618749
- Longitude
- 0.094997
- British National Grid easting
- 545,133
- British National Grid northing
- 193,181
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
- E00182527
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 017B · E01021765
- 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
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Puckridge Cottages, 1, Vicarage Lane, Chigwell, IG7 6LU | 23 September 2020 | £475,000 |
| Puckridge Cottages, 3, Vicarage Lane, Chigwell, IG7 6LU | 18 December 2019 | £480,000 |
| Puckridge Cottages, 4, Vicarage Lane, Chigwell, IG7 6LU | 19 December 2014 | £419,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 72
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 11
- 639 m
Wells Park School
Academy special converter
- 1.0 km
Chigwell Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Early Years Assessment Service and Centre Co Manford Primary School
Miscellaneous
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,472
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 563
- Anti social behaviour 185
- Vehicle crime 149
- Criminal damage and arson 108
- Other theft 106
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- IG7 6 residents
- 4,969
8 female, 9 male
Age bands in IG7 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
907 residents
517 residents
1,281 residents
1,414 residents
1,060 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IG7 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
23
within 5 km straight-line
THE FOREST EDGE PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86007
1.3 km
THE WILLOWS PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86057
1.3 km
CHIGWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
300 FENCEPIECE ROAD, ILFORD, IG6 2TA
ODS code F81062
1.7 km
HAINAULT SURGERY
34 NEW NORTH ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2XG
ODS code F86085
1.9 km
FENCE PIECE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
83 FENCEPIECE ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2NB
ODS code F86707
2.2 km
FULLWELL CROSS MED. CTR.
1 TOMSWOOD HILL, BARKINGSIDE, ILFORD, IG6 2HG
ODS code F86010
2.8 km
THE FULLWELL AVENUE SURGERY
272 FULLWELL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0SB
ODS code F86612
3.0 km
THE RIVER SURGERY
16 ROUS ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 6BN
ODS code F81216
3.2 km
PALMERSTON ROAD SURGERY
18 PALMERSTON ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LT
ODS code F81165
3.6 km
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
3.7 km
THE LOUGHTON SURGERY
25 TRAPS HILL, LOUGHTON, IG10 1SZ
ODS code F81136
4.1 km
ABRIDGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 37 ONGAR ROAD, ABRIDGE, ROMFORD, RM4 1UD
ODS code F81184
4.2 km
FOREST PRACTICE
26 PYRLES LANE, LOUGHTON, IG10 2NH
ODS code F81152
4.2 km
CLAYHALL CLINIC
14 CLAYHALL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0LG
ODS code F86691
4.3 km
LOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE
THE DRIVE, LOUGHTON, IG10 1HW
ODS code F81048
4.3 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
4.4 km
KENWOOD MEDICAL
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86081
4.4 km
THE HEATHCOTE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86624
4.4 km
CRANBROOK SURGERY
737A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86698
4.5 km
THE EASTERN AVENUE MEDICAL CENTRE
737 A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86083
4.5 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Manor Road (IG7)
BCT · Hainault
- 0.3 miles
High View School Lane
BCT · Chigwell Row
- 0.3 miles
Manor Road / Grange Hill Station
BCT · Hainault
- 0.4 miles
Grange Hill Underground Station
MET · Grange Hill
- 0.4 miles
Grange Hill Underground Station
MET · Grange Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 017B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,240 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
1,472 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 563 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.