Crap Towns / Redbridge / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Redbridge?
In January 2026, 0.9% of premises in Redbridge couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 1.8 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 235 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 93.3% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 235 | 0.2% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 1,052 | 0.9% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 105,649 | 93.3% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Tower Hamlets | 10.9 km | 3.0 |
| Chigwell | 3.3 km | 1.3 |
| Waltham Forest | 6.2 km | 1.2 |
| Havering | 10.3 km | 1.1 |
| Redbridge | – | 0.9 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 6.1 km | 0.9 |
| Hackney | 10.3 km | 0.9 |
| Loughton | 7.3 km | 0.8 |
| Newham | 7.1 km | 0.7 |
| Waltham Abbey | 12.3 km | 0.4 |
| Buckhurst Hill | 5.3 km | 0.2 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |