Epping West & Rural
WardWest Epping Forest. About 7,108 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 28 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Epping West & Rural live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Epping West & Rural compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Epping West & Rural safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Epping West & Rural at a rate of 83.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 75.7 per 1,000 people across Epping Forest.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 53 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Epping West & Rural.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (239), other crime (100) and shoplifting (80).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Epping Forest
These figures are published for the whole of Epping Forest, not for each ward, so they describe all of Epping Forest and not Epping West & Rural alone. See Epping Forest
Epping West & Rural in brief
Epping West & Rural had 6,933 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Epping West & Rural live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Epping West & Rural, 89.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Epping West & Rural, 2.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.