Property market
The five-year median is £333,000 from 2 recorded sales in RM4 1ES. 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.
RM4 1ES
Theydon Bois with Passingford · Epping Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Romford
- Local authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar
- Postcode district
- RM4
- Postcode sector
- RM4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM4 1ES
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM4
- Postcode sector
- RM4 1
- Latitude
- 51.645868
- Longitude
- 0.168029
- British National Grid easting
- 550,099
- British National Grid northing
- 196,344
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Theydon Bois with Passingford · E05015738
- Parish or community
- E04004031
- Westminster constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar · E14001125
- Output area
- E00110743
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 003C · E01021800
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 003 · E02004529
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 RM4
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Holly Cottage, Church Lane, Stapleford Abbotts, Romford, RM4 1ES | 6 February 2025 | £6,000 |
| Holly Cottage, Church Lane, Stapleford Abbotts, Romford, RM4 1ES | 1 December 2023 | £660,000 |
| 1, Church Terrace, Stapleford Abbotts, Romford, RM4 1ES | 29 September 2017 | £393,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 535 m
Stapleford Abbotts Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 3.1 km
Dame Tipping Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.5 km
Lambourne Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 60
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 41
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Other theft 3
- Burglary 2
- Possession of weapons 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 39
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- RM4 1 residents
- 4,568
16 female, 23 male
Age bands in RM4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.6%
717 residents
493 residents
1,091 residents
1,333 residents
1,122 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RM4 1 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+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 91.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 91.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 91.7%
- 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
2
within 5 km
ABRIDGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 37 ONGAR ROAD, ABRIDGE, ROMFORD, RM4 1UD
ODS code F81184
3.2 km
LYNWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
2A-6 LYNWOOD DRIVE, ROMFORD, RM5 3QL
ODS code F82030
4.9 km
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
Gordon Cottages
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
- 0.1 miles
Gordon Cottages
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
- 0.1 miles
The Rabbits
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
- 0.2 miles
The Rabbits
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
- 0.3 miles
Primary School
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 003C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,590 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stapleford Abbotts Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 535 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
60 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 41 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.