Schools
58 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 8 secondary schools. Meadgate Primary School is the nearest published school at 540 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM2 9GF
Great Baddow East · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Great Baddow East
- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford
- Postcode district
- CM2
- Postcode sector
- CM2 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM2 9GF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM2
- Postcode sector
- CM2 9
- Latitude
- 51.722142
- Longitude
- 0.487760
- British National Grid easting
- 571,929
- British National Grid northing
- 205,530
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- Great Baddow East · E05015471
- Parish or community
- E04013170
- Westminster constituency
- Chelmsford · E14001159
- Output area
- E00109531
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 014B · E01021563
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 014 · E02004498
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 CM2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 58
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 8
- 540 m
Meadgate Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 695 m
Woodcroft Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 828 m
Larkrise Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,856
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,075
- Shoplifting 500
- Anti social behaviour 221
- Other theft 195
- Public order 180
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM2 9 residents
- 14,924
Age bands in CM2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
2,794 residents
1,528 residents
4,047 residents
3,900 residents
2,616 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.
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
9
within 5 km
SUTHERLAND LODGE SURGERY
115 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7PY
ODS code F81117
530 m
BADDOW VILLAGE SURGERY
LONGMEAD AVENUE, GREAT BADDOW, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7EZ
ODS code F81114
1.1 km
BEAUCHAMP HOUSE
37 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 0DB
ODS code F81083
1.2 km
CHELMER VILLAGE SURGERY
ASHTON PLACE, CHELMER VILLAGE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 6ST
ODS code F81665
1.9 km
WHITLEY HOUSE SURGERY
CROMPTON BLD, WRITTLE ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3RW
ODS code F81057
2.3 km
RIVERMEAD GATE MED.CTR.
123 RECTORY LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1TR
ODS code F81071
2.3 km
NORTH CHELMSFORD NHS HCC
2 WHITE HART LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 5EF
ODS code Y02611
3.5 km
CHELMER MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
20 MERLIN PLACE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 4HW
ODS code F81122
3.6 km
THE WRITTLE SURGERY
16A LORDSHIP ROAD, WRITTLE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3EH
ODS code F81098
4.4 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
- 0.0 miles
The Beehive
BCT · Great Baddow
- 0.0 miles
The Beehive
BCT · Great Baddow
- 0.1 miles
The Beehive
BCT · Great Baddow
- 0.2 miles
Meadgate Shops
BCT · Great Baddow
- 0.2 miles
Loftin Way
BCT · Great Baddow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 014B, 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
8,036 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
2,856 published events cover 12 months, averaging 238 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,075 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.