Schools
109 open schools are in scope, including 59 primary and 19 secondary schools. Wells Primary School is the nearest published school at 63 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG8 0PR
Monkhams · Redbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Monkhams
- Local authority
- Redbridge
- Constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green
- Postcode district
- IG8
- Postcode sector
- IG8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG8 0PR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG8
- Postcode sector
- IG8 0
- Latitude
- 51.616697
- Longitude
- 0.026446
- British National Grid easting
- 540,394
- British National Grid northing
- 192,819
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Redbridge · E09000026
- Electoral ward
- Monkhams · E05011249
- Parish or community
- E43000216
- Westminster constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green · E14001167
- Output area
- E00018835
- Lower layer super output area
- Redbridge 001C · E01003746
- Middle layer super output area
- Redbridge 001 · E02000751
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 IG8
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 109
- Primary
- 59
- Secondary
- 19
- 63 m
Wells Primary School
Community school
- 159 m
St Antony's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 230 m
Avon House Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,740
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 617
- Vehicle crime 268
- Anti social behaviour 242
- Burglary 126
- Other theft 123
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IG8 0 residents
- 9,261
Age bands in IG8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- 1,545 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- 893 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- 2,162 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- 2,498 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
- 1,940 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.
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
39
within 5 km straight-line
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
1.0 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
1.0 km
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
1.6 km
PALMERSTON ROAD SURGERY
18 PALMERSTON ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LT
ODS code F81165
1.7 km
THE OLD CHURCH SURGERY
SILVERTHORN CENTRE, 2 FRIARS CLOSE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 6UN
ODS code F86616
1.9 km
LARKSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 LARKSHALL ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7HS
ODS code F86664
2.0 km
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
HANDSWORTH AVENUE, HIGHAMS PARK, LONDON, E4 9PD
ODS code F86004
2.0 km
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
2.2 km
THE ELMHURST PRACTICE
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86064
2.2 km
THE RIVER SURGERY
16 ROUS ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 6BN
ODS code F81216
2.2 km
SOUTHDENE SURGERY
THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86066
2.5 km
THE SHRUBBERIES MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86641
2.5 km
GLEBELANDS PRACTICE
2 GLEBELANDS AVENUE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2AB
ODS code F86020
2.7 km
THE RIDGEWAY SURGERY
1 MOUNT ECHO AVENUE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7JX
ODS code F86078
2.9 km
CHURCHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CHURCHILL TERRACE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8DG
ODS code F86627
3.1 km
THE MICROFACULTY
107-109 CHINGFORD MOUNT ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8LT
ODS code F86638
3.1 km
THE FOREST SURGERY
2 MACDONALD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 4BA
ODS code F86026
3.3 km
CLAYHALL CLINIC
14 CLAYHALL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0LG
ODS code F86691
3.3 km
KINGS HEAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
178 KINGS HEAD HILL, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7NX
ODS code F86700
3.4 km
CHINGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
109 YORK ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8LF
ODS code Y01291
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 39 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 41 m
Woodford Wells / Horse & Well
BCT · Woodford Wells
- 109 m
St Thomas of Canterbury Church
BCT · Woodford Wells
- 125 m
St Thomas of Canterbury Church
BCT · Woodford Wells
- 230 m
Bancroft's School
BCT · Woodford Wells
- 236 m
Bancroft's School
BCT · Woodford Wells
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Redbridge 001C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,045 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
1,740 published events cover 12 months, averaging 145 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 617 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.