Loughton

9°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 11° / 8° · 44% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:29

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

38US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Greenwich - A206 Burrage Grove, United Kingdom

• 7.8 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

126 reported · August 2026▼ 7% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences32
• Anti-social behaviour23
• Vehicle crime13
• Criminal damage & arson11

9 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Debden and Loughton · Essex

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

330 reported road collisions (2025)

105 killed or seriously injured · 464 casualties · 24.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

256 food businesses within 2 miles

• 227 rated 4–5 ★ (205 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Loughton (0.5 km)
• 35 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£530,653 average▼ 0.3% YoY

Across Epping Forest · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,844 average monthly rent▲ 5.6% YoY

• 1 bed £1,230
• 2 bed £1,584
• 3 bed £1,941

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

12.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 12.4 times median annual pay (13.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,596 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (10.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 140.8p · AppleGreen (10.5 km)

21 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 28 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 160 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons Loughton (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms2
• Swimming pools7
• Sports pitches22
• Playgrounds12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

134,979 residents in Epping Forest · 398/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,097
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,993
• Net moves+1,104

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 205 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,277 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (24% of 58,610)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

54 schools · 19,253 pupils

35 primary · 7 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 17 of 18 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (94%)

45 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Epping Forest

1,574 CQC-registered services

• Care homes408
• GP practices229
• Dentists312
• Homecare agencies474
• Hospitals & hospices40

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 17 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Essex

• Not in the Green Belt
• 33 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

322 applications decided

70.8% granted · 228 granted, 94 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Dr Neil Hudson

Conservative

Epping Forest

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 1
• Con 19
• LD 6
• Ref 12
• Oth 16

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools7
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens119
• Restaurants & cafés55

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,300 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

204 jobs advertised · £39,393 avg

e.g. Eyebrow Threader/Brow Expert, Personal Trainer/Fitness Coach - Debden Loughton (New Site Opening), Front of House Support Team - Fixed term contract

Source: Adzuna

£883 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£36,421 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 58,461 certificates

8.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

52% low-carbon electricity

Gas 46% · Wind 35% · Nuclear 11% · Biomass 7%

190 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for London · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.2 yrs women · 80.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Essex): 62.4 women · 62.7 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

3 GP surgeries · 7 pharmacies in IG10

• Loughton Health Centre
• The Loughton Surgery
• Forest Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Epping Forest:

• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND194 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth176 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Fund permanent, 24-hour police patrols in Jewish communities165 local signatures · 11,508 nationwide
• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent155 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK146 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• Roding Valley High School · 0.3 km

  Roding Valley High School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Loughton, Essex, England, founded in September 1989 by the merger of three schools.

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  National Jazz Archive · 0.5 km

  The National Jazz Archive is a collection of materials pertaining to jazz and blues that is kept at the Loughton Library in Essex, England. The archive was founded by British trumpeter Digby Fairweather in 1998 and co…

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  Loughton tube station · 0.5 km

  Loughton is a London Underground station, serving the suburban town of Loughton in the Epping Forest District of Essex. It is on the Central line between Buckhurst Hill and Debden stations, and is in London fare zone…

• Waltham Forest (legal forest) · 1.0 km

  Waltham Forest was a royal forest that existed from around the time the Forest of Essex was disestablished in the 13th century. After that Forest Law was focused on areas with higher concentrations of woodland than t…

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  Loughton · 1.4 km

  Loughton is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It is inside the M25 London orbital motorway but lies just outside the administrative boundary of Greater London. It lies 13 miles (…

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  Loughton Camp · 1.5 km

  Loughton Camp is an Iron Age Hill fort in Epping Forest, one mile northwest of the town of Loughton. It lies "about two miles south-west" of Ambresbury Banks. and south-west of the town of Epping, Essex.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)