Schools
70 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 13 secondary schools. Chigwell School is the nearest published school at 72 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG7 6QE
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG7 6QE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG7
- Postcode sector
- IG7 6
- Latitude
- 51.624666
- Longitude
- 0.080822
- British National Grid easting
- 544,133
- British National Grid northing
- 193,811
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
- E00110481
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 016B · E01021750
- 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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 70
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 13
- 72 m
Chigwell School
Other independent school
- 337 m
Chigwell Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.8 km
Wells Park School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 349
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 128
- Vehicle crime 41
- Other theft 31
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Burglary 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IG7 6 residents
- 4,969
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
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
21
within 5 km
THE RIVER SURGERY
16 ROUS ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 6BN
ODS code F81216
2.1 km
CHIGWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
300 FENCEPIECE ROAD, ILFORD, IG6 2TA
ODS code F81062
2.1 km
THE FOREST EDGE PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86007
2.4 km
THE WILLOWS PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86057
2.4 km
PALMERSTON ROAD SURGERY
18 PALMERSTON ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LT
ODS code F81165
2.5 km
HAINAULT SURGERY
34 NEW NORTH ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2XG
ODS code F86085
2.5 km
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
2.6 km
FENCE PIECE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
83 FENCEPIECE ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2NB
ODS code F86707
2.7 km
THE LOUGHTON SURGERY
25 TRAPS HILL, LOUGHTON, IG10 1SZ
ODS code F81136
3.0 km
THE FULLWELL AVENUE SURGERY
272 FULLWELL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0SB
ODS code F86612
3.2 km
LOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE
THE DRIVE, LOUGHTON, IG10 1HW
ODS code F81048
3.2 km
FULLWELL CROSS MED. CTR.
1 TOMSWOOD HILL, BARKINGSIDE, ILFORD, IG6 2HG
ODS code F86010
3.3 km
FOREST PRACTICE
26 PYRLES LANE, LOUGHTON, IG10 2NH
ODS code F81152
3.4 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
3.7 km
CLAYHALL CLINIC
14 CLAYHALL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0LG
ODS code F86691
4.2 km
ABRIDGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 37 ONGAR ROAD, ABRIDGE, ROMFORD, RM4 1UD
ODS code F81184
4.2 km
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
4.6 km
KENWOOD MEDICAL
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86081
4.9 km
THE HEATHCOTE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86624
4.9 km
CRANBROOK SURGERY
737A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86698
4.9 km
Showing 20 of 21 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
- 0.3 miles
Brook Way
BCT · Chigwell
- 0.4 miles
Brook Way
BCT · Chigwell
- 0.5 miles
Chigwell Station
BCT · Chigwell
- 0.5 miles
Chigwell Station
BCT · Chigwell
- 0.5 miles
Station Road
BCT · Chigwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 016B, 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
28,014 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
349 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 128 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.