Property market
The five-year median is £337,500 from 6 recorded sales in CM3 8DU. 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 8DU
Rettendon and Runwell · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chelmsford
- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM3 8DU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 8
- Latitude
- 51.635958
- Longitude
- 0.561374
- British National Grid easting
- 577,349
- British National Grid northing
- 196,123
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- Rettendon and Runwell · E05004110
- Parish or community
- E04003967
- Westminster constituency
- Maldon · E14001351
- Output area
- E00109693
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 021E · E01034088
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 021 · E02004505
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
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 37, Meadow Road, Rettendon Common, Chelmsford, CM3 8DU | 16 July 2025 | £350,000 |
| 45, Meadow Road, Rettendon Common, Chelmsford, CM3 8DU | 26 July 2024 | £305,000 |
| 45, Meadow Road, Rettendon Common, Chelmsford, CM3 8DU | 12 May 2023 | £305,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 2
- 304 m
Rettendon Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
St Luke's Park Primary School
Free schools
- 2.6 km
Hilltop Junior School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 255
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 123
- Vehicle crime 24
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Other theft 18
- Criminal damage and arson 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 110
- 59 female, 51 male
- Postcode households
- 45
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- CM3 8 residents
- 2,933
Age bands in CM3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- 420 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- 234 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.1%
- 575 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- 788 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 22.6%
- 590 residents
This postcode contained 3.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM3 8 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
KINGSWAY SURGERY
CROUCH VALE MEDICAL CENTRE, BURNHAM ROAD, SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS, CHELMSFORD, CM3 5QP
ODS code F81170
3.6 km
SWANWOOD PARTNERSHIP
2 MARKET AVENUE, WICKFORD, SS12 0AG
ODS code F81732
3.8 km
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
3.8 km
LONDON ROAD SURGERY
MARKET HOUSE, MARKET ROAD, WICKFORD, SS12 0AA
ODS code F81041
3.9 km
ROBERT FREW MEDICAL CENTRE
SILVA ISLAND WAY, WICKFORD, SS12 9NR
ODS code F81036
4.2 km
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 274 m
School
BCT · Rettendon
- 321 m
School
BCT · Rettendon
- 644 m
The Turnpike north
BCT · Rettendon
- 666 m
The Turnpike north
BCT · Rettendon
- 704 m
The Turnpike east
BCT · Rettendon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 021E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,682 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
24 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 2 secondary schools. Rettendon Primary School is the nearest published school at 304 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
255 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21 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.