Epping
TownTown in Epping Forest, East of England.
Epping is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Epping add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Epping live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Epping compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Epping safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Epping at a rate of 83.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 79 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Epping.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (331), other crime (146) and anti-social behaviour (105).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Epping was 84.2 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Epping, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Epping has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Epping
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epping Forest 005A | 1,530 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.0% |
| Epping Forest 005B | 2,090 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.3% |
| Epping Forest 005C | 1,500 | 181.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.0% |
| Epping Forest 005D | 2,042 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.8% |
| Epping Forest 006B | 1,715 | 145.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 83.9% |
| Epping Forest 006C | 1,529 | 97.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 70.8% |
| Epping Forest 006D | 1,589 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |
Your MP
- Dr Neil HudsonConservativeMP for Epping Forest
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Epping1
Middle areas in Epping2
Towns near Epping6
Epping in brief
Epping is a town in Epping Forest, East of England.
About 10,978 people lived in Epping in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £550,000 in 2025 across 211 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 83.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Epping was £550,000 in 2025.
Epping had 10,693 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Epping live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Epping, 87.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.