IG2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

412 of the district's 657 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.57619, 0.08157, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in IG2

Companies House lists 5,363 companies with a registered office in IG2; 1,769 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for IG2

• Redbridge
• Greater London
• London
• Ilford

Roads filed under IG2

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbey Road
• Albemarle Approach
• Albemarle Gardens
• Aldborough Road
• Aldborough Road North
• Applegarth Drive
• Artillery Close
• Avery Gardens
• Badger Close
• Bawdsey Avenue
• Benina Close
• Bentley Drive
• Birkbeck Road
• Blenheim Avenue
• Bloomfield Crescent
• Bramley Crescent
• Brancaster Road
• Brendon Gardens
• Brockham Drive
• Bronte Close
• Brook Road
• Buntingbridge Road
• Buryside Close
• Bush Close
• Buxton Road
• Cambrian Avenue
• Cantley Gardens
• Charter Avenue
• Chase Lane
• Cheviot Way
• Chiltern Road
• Church Road
• Clarence Avenue
• Clifton Road
• Colenso Road
• Cotswold Gardens
• Cranbrook Road
• Cranley Drive
• Cranley Road
• Crownfield Avenue
• Dellow Close
• Denham Drive
• Devonshire Road
• Durban Road
• Eastern Avenue
• Easternville Gardens
• Ethelbert Gardens
• Frinton Mews
• Gantshill Crescent
• Gaysham Avenue
• Glebelands Avenue
• Glencoe Avenue
• Glenham Drive
• Glenwood Gardens
• Headley Approach
• Headley Drive
• Heathside Close
• Hertford Road
• Homefield Avenue
• Icknield Drive

Check an address in IG2

Check an address in IG2

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=IG2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about IG2

What does an IG2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the IG2 district of the IG (Ilford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 412 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest IG2

• IG11.9 km
• IG32.1 km
• IG52.1 km
• IG42.1 km
• IG62.2 km
• RM63.3 km
• E123.4 km
• RM83.9 km
• E184.3 km
• IG74.4 km
• IG114.7 km
• E114.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids