Property market
The five-year median is £502,750 from 8 recorded sales in CM1 4DY. 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 4DY
Patching Hall · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chelmsford
- Ward
- Patching Hall
- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford
- Postcode district
- CM1
- Postcode sector
- CM1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM1 4DY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM1
- Postcode sector
- CM1 4
- Latitude
- 51.751893
- Longitude
- 0.470183
- British National Grid easting
- 570,603
- British National Grid northing
- 208,797
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- Patching Hall · E05004109
- Parish or community
- E43000285
- Westminster constituency
- Chelmsford · E14001159
- Output area
- E00109664
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 002C · E01021587
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 002 · E02004486
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
71 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 224, Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, CM1 4DY | 7 November 2025 | £480,000 |
| 282, Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, CM1 4DY | 1 November 2024 | £465,000 |
| 266, Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, CM1 4DY | 5 July 2024 | £550,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 8
- 491 m
St John Payne Catholic School, Chelmsford
Voluntary aided school
- 699 m
St Pius X Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 744 m
Lift Columbus
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,125
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,052
- Anti social behaviour 194
- Criminal damage and arson 147
- Public order 131
- Other theft 128
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 103
- Postcode households
- 45
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- CM1 4 residents
- 13,552
54 female, 49 male
Age bands in CM1 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.2%
2,405 residents
1,464 residents
3,276 residents
3,891 residents
2,801 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM1 4 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
10
within 5 km
CHELMER MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
20 MERLIN PLACE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 4HW
ODS code F81122
789 m
RIVERMEAD GATE MED.CTR.
123 RECTORY LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1TR
ODS code F81071
1.2 km
BEAUCHAMP HOUSE
37 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 0DB
ODS code F81083
2.5 km
NORTH CHELMSFORD NHS HCC
2 WHITE HART LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 5EF
ODS code Y02611
2.8 km
WHITLEY HOUSE SURGERY
CROMPTON BLD, WRITTLE ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3RW
ODS code F81057
3.0 km
SUTHERLAND LODGE SURGERY
115 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7PY
ODS code F81117
3.0 km
CHELMER VILLAGE SURGERY
ASHTON PLACE, CHELMER VILLAGE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 6ST
ODS code F81665
3.1 km
THE WRITTLE SURGERY
16A LORDSHIP ROAD, WRITTLE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3EH
ODS code F81098
3.7 km
LITTLE WALTHAM & GT NOTLEY SURGERY
30 BROOK HILL, LITTLE WALTHAM, CHELMSFORD, CM3 3LL
ODS code F81105
4.0 km
BADDOW VILLAGE SURGERY
LONGMEAD AVENUE, GREAT BADDOW, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7EZ
ODS code F81114
4.3 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
- 0.1 miles
Patching Hall Lane
BCT · Chelmsford
- 0.1 miles
Patching Hall Lane
BCT · Chelmsford
- 0.2 miles
Skerry Rise
BCT · Chelmsford
- 0.2 miles
The Drive
BCT · Chelmsford
- 0.2 miles
Skerry Rise
BCT · Chelmsford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 002C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,218 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 3
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
57 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 8 secondary schools. St John Payne Catholic School, Chelmsford is the nearest published school at 491 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,125 published events cover 12 months, averaging 177.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,052 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.