Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. New Hall School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM3 3NR
Boreham and The Leighs · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM3 3NR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 3
- Latitude
- 51.767676
- Longitude
- 0.528979
- British National Grid easting
- 574,600
- British National Grid northing
- 210,691
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
- E00109406
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 005B · E01021537
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.3 km
New Hall School
Other independent school
- 1.4 km
Boreham Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
The Beaulieu Park School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 316
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 123
- Vehicle crime 32
- Criminal damage and arson 30
- Public order 23
- Drugs 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM3 3 residents
- 6,831
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
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
THE LAURELS SURGERY
JUNIPER ROAD, BOREHAM, CHELMSFORD, CM3 3DX
ODS code F81149
1.5 km
NORTH CHELMSFORD NHS HCC
2 WHITE HART LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 5EF
ODS code Y02611
2.3 km
CHELMER VILLAGE SURGERY
ASHTON PLACE, CHELMER VILLAGE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 6ST
ODS code F81665
4.0 km
LITTLE WALTHAM & GT NOTLEY SURGERY
30 BROOK HILL, LITTLE WALTHAM, CHELMSFORD, CM3 3LL
ODS code F81105
4.2 km
RIVERMEAD GATE MED.CTR.
123 RECTORY LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1TR
ODS code F81071
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Elm Way
BCT · Boreham
- 0.6 miles
Elm Way
BCT · Boreham
- 0.6 miles
Station Approach
BCT · Boreham
- 0.7 miles
Old Forge Road
BCT · Boreham
- 0.7 miles
Station Approach
BCT · Boreham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 005B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,190 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
316 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 123 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.