Property market
The five-year median is £15,000,000 from 1 recorded sale in CM3 1RD. 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.
CM3 1RD
Boreham and The Leighs · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chelmsford
- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM3 1RD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 1
- Latitude
- 51.842040
- Longitude
- 0.512663
- British National Grid easting
- 573,189
- British National Grid northing
- 218,921
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- Boreham and The Leighs · E05004097
- Parish or community
- E04003958
- Westminster constituency
- North West Essex · E14001402
- Output area
- E00180517
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 001A · E01021538
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 001 · E02004485
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 CM3
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Chelmsford City Racecourse, Great Leighs, Chelmsford, CM3 1RD | 23 September 2024 | £15,000,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.6 km
Great Leighs Primary School
Community school
- 2.2 km
White Court School
Community school
- 2.8 km
Notley Green Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 114
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 45
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Vehicle crime 11
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Burglary 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM3 1 residents
- 5,890
Age bands in CM3 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
1,133 residents
639 residents
1,328 residents
1,769 residents
1,186 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
1
within 5 km
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
4.5 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
- 0.2 miles
Chelmsford City Racecourse
BCT · Youngs End
- 0.4 miles
Lyndeswood Farm
BCT · Youngs End
- 0.4 miles
Lyndeswood Farm
BCT · Youngs End
- 0.5 miles
Dog & Partridge
BCT · Great Leighs
- 0.5 miles
Dog & Partridge
BCT · Great Leighs
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 001A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,527 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Great Leighs Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
114 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 45 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.