Loughton
Loughton is covered by postcode districts IG7, IG8 and IG10. It is in the Epping Forest council area, Essex.
Every postcode in Loughton, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 15
- At medium risk at worst: 5
- At low risk at worst: 27
- At very low risk only: 6
- Not on the at-risk list: 699
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 752 postcodes in Loughton that ONS places, 15 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 27 are at low risk at worst, 6 are at very low risk only and 699 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 51.6481, longitude 0.0683. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
15 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
What is it like to live in Loughton?
Homes sold for a typical £505,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 552 of the 687 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 159 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 53 of its 752 postcodes. It has 8 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Chingford, 4.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
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 Loughton?
Homes in Loughton sold for a typical £505,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 337 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £510,000 from 529 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £950,000 35 sales
- Semi-detached £640,000 105 sales
- Terraced £495,000 122 sales
- Flat or maisonette £320,000 75 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole IG10 district, Loughton's main postcode district: a typical £507,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Loughton: 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 Loughton?
43 of the 752 postcodes now in use in Loughton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 67 of the 529 homes sold in Loughton were newly built (13%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IG10 district, 13%.
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
| Period | In Loughton | Across the IG10 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 337 (0%) | 0 of 338 (0%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 67 of 529 (13%) | 67 of 534 (13%) |
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 Loughton?
Ofcom reports on 687 of the 752 postcodes in Loughton. At 552 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Loughton at risk of flooding?
53 of the 752 postcodes in Loughton 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 159 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 Loughton?
The open schools at the postcodes in Loughton (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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.
Primary
- The Alderton Infant School and Nursery500 m 207 pupils, 180 places
- The Alderton Junior School500 m 225 pupils, 240 places
- Staples Road Primary School1.0 km 626 pupils, 630 places
- Thomas Willingale Primary School and Nursery1.2 km 486 pupils, 420 places
- St John Fisher Catholic Primary School1.4 km 268 pupils, 390 places
- White Bridge Primary School1.6 km 434 pupils, 450 places
- Oaklands School1.7 km 264 pupils, 273 places
- Hereward Primary School1.8 km 445 pupils, 420 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Loughton?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Loughton is Chingford Rail Station, 4.4 km away in a straight line.
- Chingford Rail Station Railway station 4.4 kmCycle
- Highams Park Rail Station Railway station 6.5 kmDrive
- Brimsdown Rail Station Railway station 6.9 kmDrive
- Debden Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 1.1 kmWalk
- Debden Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 1.1 kmWalk
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 Loughton?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Loughton. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- The Loughton Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2026 · Phone 020 8418 1340 550 mWalk
- Forest Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8508 4580 900 mWalk
- Loughton Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2024 · Phone 020 8502 5000 950 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Loughton safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,457 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Loughton 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
- 178 September 2025
- 224 October 2025
- 177 November 2025
- 219 December 2025
- 174 January 2026
- 175 February 2026
- 221 March 2026
- 195 April 2026
- 239 May 2026
- 229 June 2026
- 214 July 2026
- 212 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 100, robbery 36, other crime 33, possession of weapons 26, theft from the person 23, bicycle theft 2.
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 is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Loughton?
- District, borough or city council
- Epping Forest
- County council
- Essex
- Parliamentary constituency
- Epping Forest
- Police force area
- Essex
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- MP
- Dr Neil Hudson (Conservative)
All 752 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Loughton
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Epping Forest about council tax Council tax, on eppingforestdc.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Loughton
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Loughton postcodes
752 postcodes in use in Loughton, by district:
Those districts are all in the IG postcode area.
Check a Loughton postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Loughton
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Loughton's £505,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Loughton
- What is the postcode for Loughton?
- Postcode districts IG7, IG8 and IG10, with 752 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Loughton in?
- Epping Forest, with Essex as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Loughton?
- Dr Neil Hudson (Conservative), for Epping Forest. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Loughton?
- A typical £505,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 337 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Loughton?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include The Alderton Infant School and Nursery, The Alderton Junior School and Staples Road Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Roding Valley High School, Debden Park High School and Davenant Foundation School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Loughton have a railway station?
- The nearest is Chingford station, 4.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Loughton?
- Ofcom reports on 687 of the 752 postcodes in Loughton. At 552 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Loughton at risk of flooding?
- 53 of the 752 postcodes in Loughton 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 159 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Loughton?
- 43 of the 752 postcodes now in use in Loughton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 67 of the 529 homes sold in Loughton were newly built (13%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IG10 district, 13%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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