Chelmsford Rural West · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Highwood Primary School
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Ingatestone Infant School
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
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.
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within 5 km straight-line
BELL MEAD, HIGH STREET, INGATESTONE, CM4 0FA
ODS code F81163
3.9 km
Wards Farm
BCT · Highwood
Wards Farm
BCT · Highwood
Metsons Lane
BCT · Highwood
Metsons Lane
BCT · Highwood
Primary School
BCT · Highwood
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
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.
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Highwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
17 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.