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Roydon & Lower Nazeing ward, Epping Forest

Roydon & Lower Nazeing is one of 18 electoral wards of Epping Forest District Council, in Essex (East of England). At the 2021 Census it had 6,524 residents in 2,647 households — 385 people per km², the 17th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Epping Forest and Harlow constituencies; for county elections it is in the North Weald and Nazeing division.

Residents, 20216,524council ward average 7,499
Households2,6472.46 residents per household
Density385/ km²about 16.93 km² · Epping Forest 398
Aged 65+25.2%Epping Forest: 19.5% · under 16: 15.2%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–44.5% · 296
5–94.5% · 296
10–156.1% · 397
16–193.4% · 223
20–245.1% · 336
25–3410.4% · 677
35–4917.1% · 1,117
50–6423.6% · 1,540
65–7412.7% · 831
75–849.2% · 600
85+3.2% · 212

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van8.0% · 211
1 car or van33.7% · 891
2 cars or vans37.1% · 980
3 or more21.2% · 561
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Epping Forest overall: 69.6% owned, 14.7% social rented, 14.9% private rented.

Owned outright47.3% · 1,253
With mortgage34.7% · 918
Shared ownership0.1% · 3
Social rented8.5% · 225
Private rented9.3% · 246
Lives rent free0.1% · 3

Type of home

Detached house44.6% · 1,180
Semi-detached house35.0% · 926
Terraced house11.8% · 313
Purpose-built flat2.8% · 75
Converted house0.5% · 13
Other conversion1.1% · 28
Above shop / office0.7% · 18
Caravan, mobile3.6% · 95
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0This ward was drawn after the 2021 Census: figures are built up from the 4 census areas (LSOAs) that ONS best-fits to it, so they are close estimates.