EN9 postcode district: Waltham Abbey and around

EN9 is a postcode district mostly in Essex, with 686 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Waltham Abbey, Lower Nazeing and Waltham Cross. It is split between 3 councils: Epping Forest (669 postcodes), Broxbourne (16) and Enfield (1). 669 are in Essex and 16 in Hertfordshire. ONS lists no county for the other 1.

Postcodes in use: 686
Sectors: 3
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 3 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in EN9, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 20
In use before 2020: 666

Of the 686 postcodes in EN9 that ONS places, 20 are new since 2020 and 666 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.6963, longitude 0.0153. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

EN9 2BYMarch 2026 EN9 1SPFebruary 2026 EN9 1FTJanuary 2026 EN9 1FUAugust 2025 EN9 2BUMay 2025

What broadband can you get in EN9?

Ofcom reports on 674 of the 686 postcodes in EN9. At 483 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit483 of 674

Postcodes where every home can get superfast630 of 674

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 674

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is EN9 at risk of flooding?

174 of the 686 postcodes in EN9 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 636 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 174 of 686 postcodes High: 261Medium: 375Low: 784Very low: 1,186

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in EN9?

Homes in EN9 sold for a typical £403,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 244 sales, up 0.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£403,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£400,000 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 0.9% on the 12 months before

Detached £600,000 41 sales
Semi-detached £476,000 70 sales
Terraced £390,000 78 sales
Flat or maisonette £248,000 55 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it