Property market
The five-year median is £585,000 from 5 recorded sales in IG8 8BB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Epping Forest is £536,765 in June 2026, up 4.9% year on year.
IG8 8BB
Grange Hill · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Woodford Green
- Ward
- Grange Hill
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest
- Postcode district
- IG8
- Postcode sector
- IG8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG8 8BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG8
- Postcode sector
- IG8 8
- Latitude
- 51.608805
- Longitude
- 0.062361
- British National Grid easting
- 542,905
- British National Grid northing
- 192,011
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
- E00110488
- 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 IG8
Property
43 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 42, Love Lane, Woodford Green, IG8 8BB | 2 July 2024 | £585,000 |
| 6, Love Lane, Woodford Green, IG8 8BB | 6 January 2023 | £700,000 |
| 4, Love Lane, Woodford Green, IG8 8BB | 4 November 2022 | £460,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 102
- Primary
- 55
- Secondary
- 16
- 155 m
St John's RC School (Essex)
Non-maintained special school
- 411 m
West Hatch High School
Academy converter
- 737 m
Roding Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,591
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 498
- Vehicle crime 262
- Anti social behaviour 250
- Other theft 134
- Public order 102
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 64
- Postcode households
- 20
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- IG8 8 residents
- 9,038
36 female, 28 male
Age bands in IG8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 15%
1,692 residents
933 residents
2,616 residents
2,396 residents
1,344 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IG8 8 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+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 95.5%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 95.5%
- 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
34
within 5 km
CHIGWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
300 FENCEPIECE ROAD, ILFORD, IG6 2TA
ODS code F81062
1.5 km
THE FULLWELL AVENUE SURGERY
272 FULLWELL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0SB
ODS code F86612
1.5 km
FENCE PIECE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
83 FENCEPIECE ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2NB
ODS code F86707
1.8 km
HAINAULT SURGERY
34 NEW NORTH ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2XG
ODS code F86085
1.8 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
2.0 km
CLAYHALL CLINIC
14 CLAYHALL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0LG
ODS code F86691
2.1 km
FULLWELL CROSS MED. CTR.
1 TOMSWOOD HILL, BARKINGSIDE, ILFORD, IG6 2HG
ODS code F86010
2.2 km
THE RIVER SURGERY
16 ROUS ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 6BN
ODS code F81216
2.3 km
PALMERSTON ROAD SURGERY
18 PALMERSTON ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LT
ODS code F81165
2.3 km
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
2.4 km
THE FOREST EDGE PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86007
2.9 km
THE WILLOWS 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
2.9 km
SOUTHDENE SURGERY
THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86066
3.1 km
THE SHRUBBERIES MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86641
3.1 km
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
3.1 km
THE ELMHURST PRACTICE
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86064
3.1 km
KENWOOD MEDICAL
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86081
3.1 km
THE HEATHCOTE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
KENWOOD GARDENS, ILFORD, IG2 6YG
ODS code F86624
3.1 km
CRANBROOK SURGERY
737A CRANBROOK ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 6RJ
ODS code F86698
3.2 km
Showing 20 of 34 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
- 0.1 miles
Cross Road (IG8)
BCT · Woodford Bridge
- 0.2 miles
Cross Road (IG8)
BCT · Woodford Bridge
- 0.2 miles
Love Lane (IG8)
BCT · Woodford Bridge
- 0.2 miles
West Hatch School
BCT · Chigwell
- 0.2 miles
Audleigh Place
BCT · Grange Hill
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
- 4
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Schools
102 open schools are in scope, including 55 primary and 16 secondary schools. St John's RC School (Essex) is the nearest published school at 155 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,591 published events cover 12 months, averaging 132.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 498 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.