Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Highwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 299 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM1 3QN
Chelmsford Rural West · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Postcode district
- CM1
- Postcode sector
- CM1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM1 3QN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2005
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM1
- Postcode sector
- CM1 3
- Latitude
- 51.708464
- Longitude
- 0.371136
- British National Grid easting
- 563,924
- British National Grid northing
- 203,741
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- Chelmsford Rural West · E05004100
- Parish or community
- E04003961
- Westminster constituency
- North West Essex · E14001402
- Output area
- E00109475
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 011A · E01021551
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 299 m
Highwood Primary School
Community school
- 3.5 km
Margaretting Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.9 km
Ingatestone Infant School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 31
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Other theft 6
- Vehicle crime 5
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM1 3 residents
- 8,481
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
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
THE NEW FOLLY SURGERY
BELL MEAD, HIGH STREET, INGATESTONE, CM4 0FA
ODS code F81163
4.4 km
THE WRITTLE SURGERY
16A LORDSHIP ROAD, WRITTLE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3EH
ODS code F81098
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Primary School
BCT · Highwood
- 0.2 miles
Primary School
BCT · Highwood
- 0.3 miles
Wards Farm
BCT · Highwood
- 0.3 miles
Wards Farm
BCT · Highwood
- 0.4 miles
Sparrows Close
BCT · Highwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 011A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,854 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
31 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.