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On Ilford Hill, in Ilford South West
What it's like at IG1 2ZS: every home that has sold on Ilford Hill since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Ilford Hill; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
158 of the 391 homes on the street are owned by companies (7 overseas).
| Orchestra House, 20, Ilford HillOther | Dec 2017 | £17,000,454 | 102 m² | £166,671/m² | 1 |
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From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Ilford, a few minutes' walk (250 m), with 10.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Chapel Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 86, 25, 147, W19); 529 departures an hour from the 14 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 24% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 10 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 15 km away as the crow flies.
47% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Cleveland Road Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 87% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is The Ursuline Academy Ilford, 650 m away; Attainment 8: 56.1 · 18.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Loxford School (1.2 km) and Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College (2.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (4.4 km) and Woodford County High School (7.1 km).
It's a family area: 25% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 100 m away; One Stop (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is York Road Surgery (250 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Nails & Spa Ilford is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Newham University Hospital, 4.2 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 61% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 32 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Pardesi Buffet is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Papermakers Arms Public House the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (26 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 140 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Homes are mostly flats (51%).
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 119 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Uphall Recreation Ground, 450 m away; for exercise, The Gym (250 m).
68 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Ilford South constituency: Jas Athwal MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,894 (16.7%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Independent 23%, Conservative 15%, Green Party 8%.
43 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near IG1 2ZS →
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 19.4 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 5.5 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 37 km.
Many neighbours rent: 46% of households rent privately and 20% socially.
It's young: 21% of residents are aged 15–29.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
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Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 41 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 235 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 233 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 60.4% | 89.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 32.2% | 8.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 7.1% | 1.2% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 391 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.