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On Empress Avenue, in Ilford North West
What it's like at IG1 3DE: every home that has sold on Empress Avenue 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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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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Empress Avenue; 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.
26 of the 131 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat 5, 5, Empress AvenueFlat · company-owned | Jun 2021 | £165,000 | 40 m² | £4,125/m² | 3 |
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| Flat 3, 5, Empress AvenueFlat | Jun 2022 | £200,000 | 37 m² | £5,405/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, 5, Empress AvenueFlat · company-owned | Nov 2024 | £200,000 | 29 m² | £6,897/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, 5, Empress AvenueFlat · company-owned | Nov 2024 | £185,000 | 27 m² | £6,852/m² | 3 |
| 5, Empress AvenueTerraced | Oct 2007 | £387,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 4, 5, Empress AvenueFlat | Mar 2017 | £157,500 | 31 m² | £5,081/m² | 2 |
| Flat 6, 5, Empress AvenueFlat | Feb 2018 | £174,000 | 48 m² | £3,625/m² | 1 |
| Flat 1, 7, Empress AvenueFlat | Sept 1996 | £54,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 2, 7, Empress AvenueFlat | Nov 2014 | £220,000 | 65 m² | £3,385/m² | 1 |
| 9, Empress AvenueOther | Apr 2018 | £20,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9b, Empress AvenueFlat | Aug 2003 | £110,000 | 45 m² | £2,444/m² | 3 |
| 9c, Empress AvenueFlat | Dec 2006 | £182,000 | 65 m² | £2,800/m² | 1 |
| 11, Empress AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2004 | £400,000 | 50 m² | £8,000/m² | 1 |
| 15a, Empress AvenueFlat | Nov 2024 | £154,000 | 38 m² | £4,053/m² | 1 |
| 15b, Empress AvenueFlat | Sept 2010 | £135,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15c, Empress AvenueFlat | Jul 2026 | £605,000 | 31 m² | £19,516/m² | 2 |
| 17, Empress AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2001 | £250,000 | 96 m² | £2,604/m² | 1 |
| 19, Empress AvenueTerraced | Nov 2003 | £125,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Empress AvenueTerraced | Sept 2020 | £358,860 | 66 m² | £5,437/m² | 1 |
| 21a, Empress AvenueFlat | May 1995 | £49,625 | 62 m² | £800/m² | 1 |
| 23a, Empress AvenueFlat | Jan 2015 | £271,360 | 83 m² | £3,269/m² | 1 |
| 27, Empress AvenueTerraced | Feb 2008 | £425,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 31, Empress AvenueOther | Sept 2025 | £455,000 | 83 m² | £5,482/m² | 1 |
| 31a, Empress AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2012 | £247,000 | 67 m² | £3,687/m² | 2 |
| 33, Empress AvenueTerraced | Feb 2014 | £247,000 | 49 m² | £5,041/m² | 1 |
| 33a, Empress AvenueTerraced | Mar 2007 | £236,000 | 70 m² | £3,371/m² | 3 |
| 35, Empress AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2021 | £740,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 37, Empress AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2004 | £350,000 | 40 m² | £8,750/m² | 1 |
| 41, Empress AvenueTerraced | Sept 2011 | £390,000 | 132 m² | £2,955/m² | 1 |
| Flat, 43a, Empress AvenueFlat | Jun 2019 | £222,250 | – | – | 1 |
| 43b, Empress AvenueFlat | Feb 2025 | £250,000 | 32 m² | £7,813/m² | 3 |
| 43c, Empress AvenueFlat | Nov 2009 | £156,000 | 56 m² | £2,786/m² | 3 |
| 45a, Empress AvenueFlat | Oct 2010 | £146,600 | 45 m² | £3,258/m² | 2 |
| 45b, Empress AvenueFlat | Aug 2015 | £175,000 | 45 m² | £3,889/m² | 2 |
| 45c, Empress AvenueFlat | Oct 2022 | £370,000 | 64 m² | £5,781/m² | 5 |
| 47a, Empress AvenueTerraced | Feb 2010 | £555,000 | 41 m² | £13,537/m² | 1 |
| 53, Empress AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2025 | £900,000 | 187 m² | £4,813/m² | 1 |
| 57, Empress AvenueTerraced | Jul 2007 | £610,000 | – | – | 2 |
The nearest station is Ilford, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 10.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Northbrook Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 1 minute on weekdays (routes 150, 123, 366, 179); 345 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 26% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 15 km away as the crow flies.
47% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Highlands Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 87% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Cleveland Road Primary School (1 km), with 3 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is The Ursuline Academy Ilford, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 56.1 · 18.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Valentines High School (1.4 km) and Loxford School (2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (3.4 km) and Woodford County High School (6.1 km).
It's a family area: 23% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 500 m away, with Pelton Pharmacy closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Drive Surgery (500 m), with Pelton Chemist the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Zarish Beauty Bar is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is King George Hospital, 3.8 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 29 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Moroccan Garden is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Great Spoon Of Ilford the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (22 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 211 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Homes are mostly flats (63%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 88% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Valentines Park, 750 m away; for exercise, The Gym (900 m).
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 18.9 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
54 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Former Wycliffe Congregational Church | II | 200 m |
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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Ilford North constituency: Wes Streeting MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 528 (1.1%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Labour 33%, Independent 32%, Conservative 21%, Reform UK 8%.
33 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 3DE →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
For holidays, London City is 6.5 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 37 km.
Many neighbours rent: 57% of households rent privately and 9% socially.
It's young: 20% 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 0 of 83 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 6 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.0% | 0.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 89.0% | 89.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 10.5% | 8.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 40 min
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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 131 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.