Chigwell

What is it like to live in Chigwell?

Homes sold for a typical £840,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, up 20% on the 12 months before. At 191 of the 239 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 243 postcodes. It has 3 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Chigwell Medical Centre, 1.0 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Newbury Park Station, 4.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Chigwell?

Homes in Chigwell sold for a typical £840,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 89 sales, up 20% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £1,370,000 38 sales
• Semi-detached £840,000 25 sales
• Terraced £510,000 7 sales
• Flat or maisonette £408,000 19 sales

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

Across the whole IG7 district, Chigwell's main postcode district: a typical £531,250.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Chigwell: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Chigwell?

5 of the 243 postcodes now in use in Chigwell came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 115 homes sold in Chigwell were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IG7 district, 7%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Chigwell?

Ofcom reports on 239 of the 243 postcodes in Chigwell. At 191 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Chigwell at risk of flooding?

1 of the 243 postcodes in Chigwell has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Chigwell?

The open schools at the postcodes in Chigwell. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Chigwell?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Chigwell is Newbury Park Station, 4.4 km away in a straight line.

• Newbury Park Station Railway station 4.4 kmCycle
• Chingford Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
• Highams Park Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive
• Chigwell Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 550 mWalk
• Chigwell Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 550 mWalk

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Chigwell?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Chigwell. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Chigwell Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3376 6670 1.0 kmWalk
• Hainault Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2023 · Phone 020 8501 3431 1.4 kmCycle
• Fence Piece Road Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8500 3526 1.6 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Chigwell safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,866 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Chigwell over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: drugs 54, robbery 36, other crime 26, theft from the person 19, possession of weapons 14, bicycle theft 3.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Chigwell?

Councils

Epping Forest (240) and Redbridge (3)

Parliamentary constituencies

Epping Forest (240) and Chingford and Woodford Green (3)

Police force areas

Essex (240) and Metropolitan Police (3)

Regions

East of England (240) and London (3)

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.