# Epping

Town in Epping Forest, East of England.

Epping is a town in Epping Forest, East of England. Median sale price £550,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 83.0 per 1,000 people. About 10,978 people.

Town. Code E63004569. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Epping Forest](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £550,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Epping was £550,000 in 2025. Joint 50th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/epping#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 10,693** (2021). Epping had 10,693 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). Joint 269th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/epping#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in Epping live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/epping#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 87.1%** (January 2026). In Epping, 87.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/epping#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63004569) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63004569) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 211 homes were sold in Epping in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63004569) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Epping.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63004569) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Epping had 10,693 usual residents at the census.

## How Epping compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Epping | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £550,000 | 11th most expensive | 130 towns, East of England · 2025 |
| Population | 10,693 | 33rd least populated | 130 towns, East of England · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 130 towns, East of England · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 87.1% | joint 36th lowest | 130 towns, East of England · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Epping

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Epping Forest 005A](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest/neighbourhood/e01021760) | 1,530 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.0% |
| [Epping Forest 005B](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest/neighbourhood/e01021761) | 2,090 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.3% |
| [Epping Forest 005C](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest/neighbourhood/e01021762) | 1,500 | 181.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.0% |
| [Epping Forest 005D](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest/neighbourhood/e01021763) | 2,042 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.8% |
| [Epping Forest 006B](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest/neighbourhood/e01021757) | 1,715 | 145.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 83.9% |
| [Epping Forest 006C](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest/neighbourhood/e01021758) | 1,529 | 97.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 70.8% |
| [Epping Forest 006D](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest/neighbourhood/e01021759) | 1,589 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |

## Your MP

- [Epping Forest](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/epping-forest): Dr Neil Hudson (Conservative), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Epping Forest](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest)

## Postcode districts covering Epping

[CM16](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/cm16)

## Middle areas in Epping

[Epping North](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest/epping-north), [Epping South](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest/epping-south)

## Towns near Epping

[Loughton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/loughton), [Waltham Abbey](https://openindex.co.uk/town/waltham-abbey), [Harlow](https://openindex.co.uk/harlow), [Chigwell](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chigwell), [Buckhurst Hill](https://openindex.co.uk/town/buckhurst-hill), [Waltham Cross](https://openindex.co.uk/town/waltham-cross)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63004569
- Constituency: [Epping Forest †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/epping-forest)
- Council: [Epping Forest †](https://openindex.co.uk/epping-forest)
- Region: [East of England](https://openindex.co.uk/east-of-england)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.84 km²
- People, mid-2024: 10,978*
- Neighbourhoods: 7
- Output areas: 34

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Loughton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/loughton), [Waltham Abbey](https://openindex.co.uk/town/waltham-abbey), [Harlow](https://openindex.co.uk/harlow), [Chigwell](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chigwell), [Buckhurst Hill](https://openindex.co.uk/town/buckhurst-hill), [Waltham Cross](https://openindex.co.uk/town/waltham-cross)

## Latest updates for Epping

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63004569

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/epping, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/epping#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/epping
