Schools
78 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 13 secondary schools. Daiglen School is the nearest published school at 583 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG9 5QL
Buckhurst Hill West · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Buckhurst Hill West
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest
- Postcode district
- IG9
- Postcode sector
- IG9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG9 5QL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2021
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG9
- Postcode sector
- IG9 5
- Latitude
- 51.630808
- Longitude
- 0.042956
- British National Grid easting
- 541,493
- British National Grid northing
- 194,420
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Buckhurst Hill West · E05015725
- Parish or community
- E04004038
- Westminster constituency
- Epping Forest · E14001226
- Output area
- E00110468
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 015F · E01021747
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 015 · E02004541
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 IG9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 78
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 13
- 583 m
Daiglen School
Other independent school
- 621 m
Loyola Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 678 m
St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Buckhurst Hill
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,089
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 413
- Vehicle crime 173
- Criminal damage and arson 88
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Public order 69
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 49
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IG9 5 residents
- 7,665
26 female, 23 male
Age bands in IG9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
1,380 residents
708 residents
2,057 residents
2,130 residents
1,567 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IG9 5 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
29
within 5 km straight-line
PALMERSTON ROAD SURGERY
18 PALMERSTON ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LT
ODS code F81165
457 m
KINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
23 KINGS AVENUE, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 5LP
ODS code F81169
509 m
THE RIVER SURGERY
16 ROUS ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, IG9 6BN
ODS code F81216
640 m
LOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE
THE DRIVE, LOUGHTON, IG10 1HW
ODS code F81048
2.2 km
THE LOUGHTON SURGERY
25 TRAPS HILL, LOUGHTON, IG10 1SZ
ODS code F81136
2.3 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
2.6 km
LARKSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 LARKSHALL ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7HS
ODS code F86664
2.8 km
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
2.9 km
THE OLD CHURCH SURGERY
SILVERTHORN CENTRE, 2 FRIARS CLOSE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 6UN
ODS code F86616
3.3 km
FOREST PRACTICE
26 PYRLES LANE, LOUGHTON, IG10 2NH
ODS code F81152
3.5 km
THE RIDGEWAY SURGERY
1 MOUNT ECHO AVENUE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7JX
ODS code F86078
3.7 km
KINGS HEAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
178 KINGS HEAD HILL, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7NX
ODS code F86700
3.8 km
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
HANDSWORTH AVENUE, HIGHAMS PARK, LONDON, E4 9PD
ODS code F86004
3.9 km
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
4.0 km
THE ELMHURST PRACTICE
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86064
4.0 km
CHIGWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
300 FENCEPIECE ROAD, ILFORD, IG6 2TA
ODS code F81062
4.0 km
SOUTHDENE SURGERY
THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86066
4.2 km
THE SHRUBBERIES MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86641
4.2 km
THE FULLWELL AVENUE SURGERY
272 FULLWELL AVENUE, CLAYHALL, ILFORD, IG5 0SB
ODS code F86612
4.3 km
HAINAULT SURGERY
34 NEW NORTH ROAD, HAINAULT, ILFORD, IG6 2XG
ODS code F86085
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 29 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Roebuck Lane
BCT · Buckhurst Hill
- 0.3 miles
Roebuck Lane
BCT · Buckhurst Hill
- 0.3 miles
Cricket Ground
BCT · Buckhurst Hill
- 0.3 miles
Westbury Road
BCT · Buckhurst Hill
- 0.3 miles
Hurst Road
BCT · Buckhurst Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 015F, 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
32,175 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
1,089 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 413 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.