IG6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

568 of the district's 781 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 51.59595, 0.08766, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in IG6

Companies House lists 6,491 companies with a registered office in IG6; 2,669 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 IG6

• London
• Redbridge
• Greater London

Roads filed under IG6

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.

• Acle Close
• Addison Road
• Aintree Crescent
• Aldwych Avenue
• Amber Lane
• Andrew Close
• Anne Way
• Aragon Drive
• Ardwell Avenue
• Ascot Close
• Ashley Avenue
• Ashurst Drive
• Asthall Gardens
• Barnardo Drive
• Barnardo Village Walk
• Baron Gardens
• Barton Meadows
• Bay Tree Close
• Beaminster Gardens
• Beattyville Gardens
• Beaver Road
• Beech Grove
• Benrek Close
• Bernards Close
• Boleyn Way
• Bramston Close
• Branch Road
• Brandville Gardens
• Brookside
• Brunswick Gardens
• Burford Close
• Burnett Road
• Burslem Avenue
• Bute Road
• Campbell Avenue
• Cardinal Drive
• Carlton Drive
• Carrick Drive
• Charlotte Close
• Chase Lane
• Chestnut Grove
• Civic Way
• Cleves Walk
• Clinton Crescent
• Colvin Gardens
• Connect Lane
• Connor Close
• Copthorne Avenue
• Coronation Close
• Court Way
• Covert Road
• Cranbourne Gardens
• Craven Gardens
• Crown Road
• Culpeper Close
• Cumberland Close
• Cypress Grove
• Davids Way
• Donington Avenue
• Douglas Close

Check an address in IG6

Check an address in IG6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=IG6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about IG6

What does an IG6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the IG6 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 568 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 IG6

• IG51.7 km
• IG72.1 km
• IG22.2 km
• IG43.1 km
• RM63.7 km
• IG33.8 km
• IG83.8 km
• IG14.2 km
• E184.3 km
• IG94.7 km
• RM85.2 km
• RM55.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids