Loughton
TownTown in Epping Forest, East of England.
Loughton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Loughton 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 Loughton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Loughton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Loughton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Loughton at a rate of 79.8 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, 231 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Loughton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (962), other crime (428) and shoplifting (327).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Loughton was 87.6 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 Loughton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Loughton has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Loughton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epping Forest 011A | 1,528 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Epping Forest 011B | 1,636 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.1% |
| Epping Forest 011C | 1,758 | 311.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 71.0% |
| Epping Forest 011D | 1,462 | 32.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Epping Forest 011E | 1,539 | 56.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Epping Forest 011F | 1,603 | 101.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.7% |
| Epping Forest 012A | 1,281 | 51.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.4% |
| Epping Forest 012B | 1,598 | 75.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.4% |
| Epping Forest 012C | 1,613 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.5% |
| Epping Forest 012D | 1,601 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Epping Forest 012E | 2,082 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.1% |
| Epping Forest 012F | 1,688 | 164.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| Epping Forest 013A | 1,745 | 79.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.5% |
| Epping Forest 013B | 1,505 | 48.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.1% |
| Epping Forest 013C | 1,558 | 93.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.6% |
| Epping Forest 013D | 1,581 | 37.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.9% |
| Epping Forest 013E | 1,534 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.7% |
| Epping Forest 014A | 1,388 | 29.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.7% |
| Epping Forest 014B | 1,540 | 146.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.6% |
| Epping Forest 014C | 1,410 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.6% |
| Epping Forest 014D | 1,696 | 62.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
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 Loughton1
Middle areas in Loughton4
Towns near Loughton6
Loughton in brief
Loughton is a town in Epping Forest, East of England.
About 33,869 people lived in Loughton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £510,000 in 2025 across 517 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 79.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Loughton was £510,000 in 2025.
Loughton had 33,338 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Loughton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Loughton, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.