Property market
The five-year median is £375,000 from 5 recorded sales in CM3 3DE. 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 3DE
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM3 3DE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 3
- Latitude
- 51.755989
- Longitude
- 0.540049
- British National Grid easting
- 575,409
- British National Grid northing
- 209,418
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
- E04013166
- Westminster constituency
- North West Essex · E14001402
- Output area
- E00109405
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 005A · E01021536
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 005 · E02004489
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
25 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 62, The Chase, Boreham, Chelmsford, CM3 3DE | 24 March 2026 | £395,000 |
| 82, The Chase, Boreham, Chelmsford, CM3 3DE | 17 February 2025 | £375,000 |
| 70, The Chase, Boreham, Chelmsford, CM3 3DE | 11 November 2024 | £440,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 462 m
Boreham Primary School
Community school
- 2.2 km
New Hall School
Other independent school
- 2.8 km
Chancellor Park Primary School, Chelmsford
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 283
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 112
- Vehicle crime 32
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Shoplifting 20
- Public order 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 52
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CM3 3 residents
- 6,831
28 female, 24 male
Age bands in CM3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.4%
1,287 residents
689 residents
1,692 residents
1,598 residents
1,108 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM3 3 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
5
within 5 km
THE LAURELS SURGERY
JUNIPER ROAD, BOREHAM, CHELMSFORD, CM3 3DX
ODS code F81149
402 m
NORTH CHELMSFORD NHS HCC
2 WHITE HART LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 5EF
ODS code Y02611
2.1 km
CHELMER VILLAGE SURGERY
ASHTON PLACE, CHELMER VILLAGE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 6ST
ODS code F81665
3.3 km
BADDOW VILLAGE SURGERY
LONGMEAD AVENUE, GREAT BADDOW, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7EZ
ODS code F81114
4.8 km
RIVERMEAD GATE MED.CTR.
123 RECTORY LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1TR
ODS code F81071
4.9 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
Butterfield Road
BCT · Boreham
- 0.2 miles
Butterfield Road
BCT · Boreham
- 0.2 miles
St Andrew Church
BCT · Boreham
- 0.2 miles
St Andrew Church
BCT · Boreham
- 0.3 miles
Old Forge Road
BCT · Boreham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 005A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,500 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 1
- 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
26 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. Boreham Primary School is the nearest published school at 462 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
283 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 112 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.