Loughton covers just astir 3,500 acres (Fourteen km²), of which all over 1,300 acres (Cinque km²) come open forward l& and has the people of about 30,000. A town is mainly residential, however is besides front yard to the Bank of England's printing works, where totally English banknotes are printed.

These are section of the London commuter belt and within a northerly easter bounds of the M25 motorway. It has the London Underground station on the Central Line and a London (020) vicinity code when these are about a Greater London boundary.

Great deal of a the housing around Loughton was built in the 1930s. Nearby suburban Debden is a post-war development intended to ease a cronic housing shortage within London in the 1940s.

From either 1933 to 1974 it formed together with Buckhurst Hill and Chigwell to form the Chigwell Urban District. Now Loughton has its have town council.