Property market
The five-year median is £692,500 from 2 recorded sales in RM4 1LX. 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 1LX
Chigwell with Lambourne · 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 1LX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM4
- Postcode sector
- RM4 1
- Latitude
- 51.633849
- Longitude
- 0.146213
- British National Grid easting
- 548,629
- British National Grid northing
- 194,963
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Epping Forest · E07000072
- Electoral ward
- Chigwell with Lambourne · E05015726
- Parish or community
- E04004020
- Westminster constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar · E14001125
- Output area
- E00110591
- Lower layer super output area
- Epping Forest 010A · E01021770
- Middle layer super output area
- Epping Forest 010 · E02004536
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
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mineouse, Manor Road, Abridge, Romford, RM4 1LX | 18 August 2023 | £1,000,000 |
| Isabella Cottages, 1, Manor Road, Lambourne End, Romford, RM4 1LX | 28 April 2023 | £385,000 |
| The Willows, Manor Road, Lambourne End, Romford, RM4 1LX | 21 November 2014 | £860,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.6 km
Stapleford Abbotts Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.1 km
Chigwell Row Infant School
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Lambourne Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 41
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Other theft 10
- Vehicle crime 6
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Drugs 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- RM4 1 residents
- 4,568
11 female, 7 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 0.4% 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+
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
ABRIDGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 37 ONGAR ROAD, ABRIDGE, ROMFORD, RM4 1UD
ODS code F81184
2.6 km
LYNWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
2A-6 LYNWOOD DRIVE, ROMFORD, RM5 3QL
ODS code F82030
3.8 km
CHASE CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
13-15 CHASE CROSS ROAD, COLLIER ROW, ROMFORD, RM5 3PJ
ODS code F82630
4.0 km
THE FOREST EDGE PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86007
4.1 km
THE WILLOWS PRACTICE
HAINAULT HEALTH CENTRE, MANFORD WAY, CHIGWELL, IG7 4DF
ODS code F86057
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Primary School
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
- 1.0 miles
Primary School
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
- 1.1 miles
The Nursery
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
- 1.1 miles
Gordon Cottages
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
- 1.1 miles
Gordon Cottages
BCT · Stapleford Abbotts
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Epping Forest 010A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,403 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
26 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Stapleford Abbotts Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
41 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.