Property market
The five-year median is £1,285,000 from 1 recorded sale in CM1 3HY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Chelmsford is £383,103 in June 2026, down 1.2% year on year.
CM1 3HY
Writtle · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chelmsford
- Ward
- Writtle
- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Postcode district
- CM1
- Postcode sector
- CM1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM1 3HY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM1
- Postcode sector
- CM1 3
- Latitude
- 51.729273
- Longitude
- 0.429312
- British National Grid easting
- 567,866
- British National Grid northing
- 206,187
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- Writtle · E05004119
- Parish or community
- E04003977
- Westminster constituency
- North West Essex · E14001402
- Output area
- E00109897
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 011F · E01021636
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 011 · E02004495
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CM1
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ropers Hall, 9, Lodge Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, CM1 3HY | 25 February 2022 | £1,285,000 |
| 17, Lodge Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, CM1 3HY | 3 October 2016 | £1,750,000 |
| 9, Lodge Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, CM1 3HY | 18 December 2009 | £660,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 7
- 509 m
Writtle Infant School
Academy converter
- 509 m
Writtle Junior School
Academy converter
- 753 m
Hylands School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 516
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 219
- Shoplifting 54
- Other theft 41
- Criminal damage and arson 35
- Drugs 34
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- CM1 3 residents
- 8,481
6 female, 6 male
Age bands in CM1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
1,334 residents
1,015 residents
2,040 residents
2,203 residents
1,856 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM1 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
THE WRITTLE SURGERY
16A LORDSHIP ROAD, WRITTLE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3EH
ODS code F81098
404 m
WHITLEY HOUSE SURGERY
CROMPTON BLD, WRITTLE ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3RW
ODS code F81057
1.9 km
CHELMER MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
20 MERLIN PLACE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 4HW
ODS code F81122
3.1 km
RIVERMEAD GATE MED.CTR.
123 RECTORY LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1TR
ODS code F81071
3.3 km
BEAUCHAMP HOUSE
37 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 0DB
ODS code F81083
3.3 km
SUTHERLAND LODGE SURGERY
115 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7PY
ODS code F81117
3.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Romans Place
BCT · Writtle
- 0.1 miles
St John's Green
BCT · Writtle
- 0.1 miles
Writtle Green
BCT · Writtle
- 0.1 miles
St John's Green
BCT · Writtle
- 0.1 miles
Writtle Green
BCT · Writtle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 011F, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,832 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 7 secondary schools. Writtle Infant School is the nearest published school at 509 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
516 published events cover 12 months, averaging 43 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 219 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.