Property market
The five-year median is £4,290,000 from 1 recorded sale in CM3 5UW. 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 5UW
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 5UW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 5
- Latitude
- 51.651690
- Longitude
- 0.621971
- British National Grid easting
- 581,479
- British National Grid northing
- 198,021
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
- E00109788
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 019A · E01021611
- 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
Explore CM3
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 1-2, Blackall Industrial Estate, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 5UW | 1 July 2025 | £4,290,000 |
| 7a, Blackall Industrial Estate, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 5UW | 12 April 2018 | £13,800 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 698 m
William de Ferrers School
Academy converter
- 746 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, SWF
Voluntary aided school
- 767 m
Trinity St Mary's CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School, South Woodham Ferrers
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 558
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 262
- Shoplifting 49
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Public order 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM3 5 residents
- 14,331
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
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 straight-line
KINGSWAY SURGERY
CROUCH VALE MEDICAL CENTRE, BURNHAM ROAD, SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS, CHELMSFORD, CM3 5QP
ODS code F81170
1.2 km
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hamberts Road
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.1 miles
Hamberts Road
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.4 miles
Mitchell Way
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.4 miles
School
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.6 miles
Leighlands Road
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 019A, 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
28,686 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. William de Ferrers School is the nearest published school at 698 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
558 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 262 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.