Property market
The five-year median is £450,000 from 2 recorded sales in CM3 5YF. 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 5YF
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood · 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 5YF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 5
- Latitude
- 51.643011
- Longitude
- 0.624014
- British National Grid easting
- 581,655
- British National Grid northing
- 197,061
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood · E05004113
- Parish or community
- E04003972
- Westminster constituency
- Maldon · E14001351
- Output area
- E00109756
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 020F · E01021610
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 020 · E02004504
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
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Troubridge Close, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 5YF | 14 February 2025 | £500,000 |
| 8, Troubridge Close, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 5YF | 15 September 2023 | £400,000 |
| 22, Troubridge Close, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 5YF | 29 March 2021 | £400,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 253 m
Collingwood Primary School
Foundation school
- 408 m
Trinity St Mary's CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School, South Woodham Ferrers
Voluntary aided school
- 417 m
William de Ferrers School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 562
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 285
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Anti social behaviour 46
- Public order 39
- Other theft 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- CM3 5 residents
- 14,331
24 female, 26 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 0.3% 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
3
within 5 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
CROUCH VALE MEDICAL CENTRE, BURNHAM ROAD, SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS, CHELMSFORD, CM3 5QP
ODS code F81170
1.7 km
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
2.3 km
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
4.7 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
- 0.1 miles
Creekview Road
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.1 miles
Creekview Road
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.2 miles
Asda Store
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.2 miles
School
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
- 0.2 miles
Collingwood Road
BCT · South Woodham Ferrers
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 020F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,762 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 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
14 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Collingwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 253 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
562 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 285 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.