Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 7 secondary schools. Windhill21 is the nearest published school at 125 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM23 2NS
Bishop's Stortford Central · East Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford
- Postcode district
- CM23
- Postcode sector
- CM23 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM23 2NS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2005
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM23
- Postcode sector
- CM23 2
- Latitude
- 51.868924
- Longitude
- 0.153827
- British National Grid easting
- 548,384
- British National Grid northing
- 221,119
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Hertfordshire · E07000242
- Electoral ward
- Bishop's Stortford Central · E05015356
- Parish or community
- E04013541
- Westminster constituency
- Hertford and Stortford · E14001283
- Output area
- E00119139
- Lower layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 003D · E01023455
- Middle layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 003 · E02004880
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 CM23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 7
- 125 m
Windhill21
Academy converter
- 157 m
St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 170 m
St Mary's Catholic School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,456
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 887
- Anti social behaviour 429
- Shoplifting 309
- Other theft 188
- Criminal damage and arson 131
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM23 2 residents
- 9,500
Age bands in CM23 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.4%
1,806 residents
887 residents
2,724 residents
2,306 residents
1,631 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
CHURCH STREET PARTNERSHIP
30A CHURCH STREET, BISHOP'S STORTFORD, CM23 2LY
ODS code E82067
359 m
SOUTH STREET SURGERY
83 SOUTH STREET, BISHOP'S STORTFORD, CM23 3AP
ODS code E82074
551 m
HELIX MEDICAL CENTRE
HERTS AND ESSEX HOSPITAL, CAVELL DRIVE, BISHOP'S STORTFORD, CM23 5JH
ODS code E82654
1.5 km
PEACOCK SURGERY
1ST FLOOR CASTLE MALTINGS, LOWER STREET, STANSTED, STANSTED, CM24 8XG
ODS code F81053
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St Mary's Catholic School
BCT · Bishops Stortford
- 0.0 miles
St Catherine's Court
BCT · Bishops Stortford
- 0.2 miles
Thornfield Road
BCT · Bishops Stortford
- 0.2 miles
Church Street Surgery
BCT · Bishops Stortford
- 0.2 miles
Thornfield Road
BCT · Bishops Stortford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Hertfordshire 003D, 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
33,155 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,456 published events cover 12 months, averaging 204.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 887 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.