Loughton

At the bottom of the local market, unleaded starts around 147p per litre right now. The very top of the local range is set by a small number of expensive outliers, and most stations sit much closer together than the headline gap suggests.

Tesco has been setting the cheapest unleaded price locally of late. Several of the busier sites sit along Jeffreys Road and Farm Hill Road, so you can check them against each other without leaving your usual route.

Local unleaded prices average slightly above the wider East of England figure. For diesel, expect an average of roughly 177p per litre locally.

Everything within about 8 km of the centre is included, so edge-of-town and retail park sites appear alongside the central forecourts. Prices in Loughton can move mid-week as well as at weekends, so the ordering above is worth a glance even if you always use the same forecourt.

The table below carries the exact live figures per station, and alerts can flag a drop at the forecourts you actually use.