Schools
137 open schools are in scope, including 78 primary and 23 secondary schools. St Aubyn's School is the nearest published school at 235 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG8 9DJ
Hatch Lane & Highams Park North · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green
- Postcode district
- IG8
- Postcode sector
- IG8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG8 9DJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG8
- Postcode sector
- IG8 9
- Latitude
- 51.605102
- Longitude
- 0.016673
- British National Grid easting
- 539,753
- British National Grid northing
- 191,511
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Waltham Forest · E09000031
- Electoral ward
- Hatch Lane & Highams Park North · E05013890
- Parish or community
- E43000221
- Westminster constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green · E14001167
- Output area
- E00022020
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 007B · E01004380
- Middle layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 007 · E02000901
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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 137
- Primary
- 78
- Secondary
- 23
- 235 m
St Aubyn's School
Other independent school
- 265 m
Woodford County High School
Community school
- 606 m
Oakhill Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,997
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 773
- Anti social behaviour 441
- Vehicle crime 384
- Shoplifting 274
- Other theft 252
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IG8 9 residents
- 9,996
Age bands in IG8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.6%
1,827 residents
1,112 residents
2,419 residents
2,685 residents
1,488 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
53
within 5 km straight-line
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
441 m
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
922 m
THE ELMHURST PRACTICE
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86064
922 m
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
HANDSWORTH AVENUE, HIGHAMS PARK, LONDON, E4 9PD
ODS code F86004
1.1 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
1.2 km
SOUTHDENE SURGERY
THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86066
1.3 km
THE SHRUBBERIES MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86641
1.3 km
GLEBELANDS PRACTICE
2 GLEBELANDS AVENUE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2AB
ODS code F86020
1.5 km
THE FOREST SURGERY
2 MACDONALD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 4BA
ODS code F86026
1.9 km
THE OLD CHURCH SURGERY
SILVERTHORN CENTRE, 2 FRIARS CLOSE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 6UN
ODS code F86616
2.1 km
DR DHITAL PRACTICE
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86086
2.4 km
WALTHAM FOREST COMM & FAM HTH SERV LTD
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86644
2.4 km
THE MICROFACULTY
107-109 CHINGFORD MOUNT ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8LT
ODS code F86638
2.6 km
LARKSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 LARKSHALL ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7HS
ODS code F86664
2.6 km
CHURCHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CHURCHILL TERRACE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8DG
ODS code F86627
2.8 km
CLAYHALL CLINIC
14 CLAYHALL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0LG
ODS code F86691
2.9 km
THE PENRHYN SURGERY
2A PENRHYN AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5DB
ODS code F86005
2.9 km
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
3.0 km
CHINGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
109 YORK ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8LF
ODS code Y01291
3.0 km
THE ECCLESBOURNE PRACTICE
ECCLESBOURNE, 1 WARWICK TERRACE, LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E17 9DP
ODS code F86018
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 53 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Memorial
BCT · Woodford Green
- 0.1 miles
Chingford Lane (IG8)
BCT · Woodford Green
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Memorial
BCT · Woodford Green
- 0.2 miles
St Aubyns School
BCT · Woodford Green
- 0.2 miles
Chingford Lane (IG8)
BCT · Woodford Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 007B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,565 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,997 published events cover 12 months, averaging 249.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 773 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.