Loughton

18°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 21° / 17° · 80% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:29Sunset 19:21

12h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

34US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Waltham Forest Dawlish Rd, United Kingdom

131 reported · July 2026▼ 23% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences52
• Public order13
• Anti-social behaviour12
• Drugs10

15 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Debden and Loughton · Essex

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

302 reported road collisions (2024)

76 killed or seriously injured · 371 casualties · 22.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

266 food businesses within 2 miles

• 231 rated 4–5 ★ (209 top)
• 6 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

£536,765 average▲ 4.9% YoY

Across Epping Forest · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,843 average monthly rent▲ 5.7% YoY

• 1 bed £1,229
• 2 bed £1,583
• 3 bed £1,939

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

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

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

38 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)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 200 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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%)

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

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

1,571 CQC-registered services

• Care homes407
• GP practices230
• Dentists309
• Homecare agencies475
• Hospitals & hospices39

CQC ratings: 87% 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)

277 applications decided

70.4% granted · 195 granted, 82 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

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)

9,040 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

261 jobs advertised · £39,534 avg

e.g. Mobile Mechanic, Mobile Vehicle Technician - Harlow, Driving For Cash? Sign Up To Drive With Uber And Earn Flexibly Instead

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

26% low-carbon electricity

Imports 44% · Gas 30% · Nuclear 11% · Wind 9%

160 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for London · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.2 yrs women · 80.8 yrs 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Epping Forest:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership372 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office370 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test370 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Make it compulsory for children to wear gloves ice skating 341 local signatures · 28,170 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s287 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• 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)