Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Elmwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 407 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM3 5SH
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chelmsford
- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM3 5SH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 5
- Latitude
- 51.648671
- Longitude
- 0.614988
- British National Grid easting
- 581,008
- British National Grid northing
- 197,668
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville · E05004114
- Parish or community
- E04003972
- Westminster constituency
- Maldon · E14001351
- Output area
- E00109798
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 019B · E01021612
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 019 · E02004503
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
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Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Algars Way, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 5SH | 22 November 2019 | £377,500 |
| 5, Algars Way, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 5SH | 25 November 2016 | £365,000 |
| 4, Algars Way, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 5SH | 6 January 2015 | £275,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 407 m
Elmwood Primary School
Foundation school
- 421 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, SWF
Voluntary aided school
- 470 m
William de Ferrers School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 746
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 319
- Shoplifting 125
- Anti social behaviour 55
- Criminal damage and arson 55
- Public order 49
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- CM3 5 residents
- 14,331
8 female, 9 male
Age bands in CM3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
2,499 residents
1,462 residents
3,664 residents
3,816 residents
2,973 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM3 5 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
2
within 5 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
CROUCH VALE MEDICAL CENTRE, BURNHAM ROAD, SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS, CHELMSFORD, CM3 5QP
ODS code F81170
842 m
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
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
- 0.2 miles
Mitchell Way
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.2 miles
Champions Manor Hall
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.3 miles
Champions Manor Hall
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.3 miles
Leighlands Road
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.3 miles
School
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 019B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,184 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
Recorded crime
746 published events cover 12 months, averaging 62.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 319 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.