Property market
The five-year median is £437,500 from 6 recorded sales in CM1 6LS. 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 6LS
The Lawns · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chelmsford
- Ward
- The Lawns
- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford
- Postcode district
- CM1
- Postcode sector
- CM1 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM1 6LS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM1
- Postcode sector
- CM1 6
- Latitude
- 51.751226
- Longitude
- 0.493677
- British National Grid easting
- 572,227
- British National Grid northing
- 208,778
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- The Lawns · E05004116
- Parish or community
- E43000285
- Westminster constituency
- Chelmsford · E14001159
- Output area
- E00109843
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 004F · E01021624
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 004 · E02004488
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
34 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 72, Sidmouth Road, Chelmsford, CM1 6LS | 9 May 2024 | £400,000 |
| 64, Sidmouth Road, Chelmsford, CM1 6LS | 24 March 2023 | £430,000 |
| 56, Sidmouth Road, Chelmsford, CM1 6LS | 13 December 2022 | £460,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 9
- 288 m
Springfield Primary School
Community school
- 298 m
The Boswells School
Academy converter
- 415 m
The Bishops' Church of England and Roman Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,466
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 691
- Shoplifting 168
- Anti social behaviour 112
- Other theft 91
- Vehicle crime 77
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 112
- Postcode households
- 42
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- CM1 6 residents
- 15,497
55 female, 57 male
Age bands in CM1 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.7%
3,201 residents
1,539 residents
4,588 residents
4,031 residents
2,300 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM1 6 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
NORTH CHELMSFORD NHS HCC
2 WHITE HART LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 5EF
ODS code Y02611
1.2 km
RIVERMEAD GATE MED.CTR.
123 RECTORY LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1TR
ODS code F81071
1.8 km
CHELMER VILLAGE SURGERY
ASHTON PLACE, CHELMER VILLAGE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 6ST
ODS code F81665
2.0 km
CHELMER MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
20 MERLIN PLACE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 4HW
ODS code F81122
2.4 km
BEAUCHAMP HOUSE
37 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 0DB
ODS code F81083
2.6 km
SUTHERLAND LODGE SURGERY
115 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7PY
ODS code F81117
2.9 km
THE LAURELS SURGERY
JUNIPER ROAD, BOREHAM, CHELMSFORD, CM3 3DX
ODS code F81149
3.6 km
BADDOW VILLAGE SURGERY
LONGMEAD AVENUE, GREAT BADDOW, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7EZ
ODS code F81114
3.6 km
WHITLEY HOUSE SURGERY
CROMPTON BLD, WRITTLE ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3RW
ODS code F81057
3.8 km
LITTLE WALTHAM & GT NOTLEY SURGERY
30 BROOK HILL, LITTLE WALTHAM, CHELMSFORD, CM3 3LL
ODS code F81105
4.2 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Falmouth Road
BCT · Springfield
- 0.2 miles
Falmouth Road
BCT · Springfield
- 0.2 miles
New Bowers Way
BCT · North Springfield
- 0.2 miles
Belmonde Drive
BCT · Springfield
- 0.2 miles
Belmonde Drive
BCT · Springfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 004F, 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
33,335 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- 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 29 primary and 9 secondary schools. Springfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 288 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,466 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 691 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.