Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 6 secondary schools. Hillmead Primary School is the nearest published school at 618 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM23 2PW
Bishop's Stortford North · East Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bishop's Stortford
- 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 2PW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM23
- Postcode sector
- CM23 2
- Latitude
- 51.875285
- Longitude
- 0.136901
- British National Grid easting
- 547,198
- British National Grid northing
- 221,792
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Hertfordshire · E07000242
- Electoral ward
- Bishop's Stortford North · E05015357
- Parish or community
- E04013541
- Westminster constituency
- Hertford and Stortford · E14001283
- Output area
- E00190308
- Lower layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 003C · E01023454
- 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
Property
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Hadham Grove, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2PW | 24 March 2016 | £935,000 |
| 2, Hadham Grove, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2PW | 2 July 2015 | £745,000 |
| 7, Hadham Grove, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2PW | 29 November 2013 | £780,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 6
- 618 m
Hillmead Primary School
Community school
- 623 m
Avanti Brook Primary School
Free schools
- 797 m
Bishop's Stortford College
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 760
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 321
- Anti social behaviour 135
- Other theft 61
- Shoplifting 46
- Vehicle crime 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 39
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- CM23 2 residents
- 9,500
18 female, 21 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM23 2 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
3
within 5 km
CHURCH STREET PARTNERSHIP
30A CHURCH STREET, BISHOP'S STORTFORD, CM23 2LY
ODS code E82067
1.6 km
SOUTH STREET SURGERY
83 SOUTH STREET, BISHOP'S STORTFORD, CM23 3AP
ODS code E82074
1.9 km
HELIX MEDICAL CENTRE
HERTS AND ESSEX HOSPITAL, CAVELL DRIVE, BISHOP'S STORTFORD, CM23 5JH
ODS code E82654
2.8 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
- 0.1 miles
Franklin Street
BCT · Stortford Fields
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Bishops Park
- 0.1 miles
Franklin Street
BCT · Stortford Fields
- 0.2 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Bishops Park
- 0.2 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Bishops Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Hertfordshire 003C, 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
30,688 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
760 published events cover 12 months, averaging 63.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 321 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.