Property market
The five-year median is £492,500 from 4 recorded sales in CM3 8RF. 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 8RF
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield · 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 8RF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1987
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM3
- Postcode sector
- CM3 8
- Latitude
- 51.663786
- Longitude
- 0.598923
- British National Grid easting
- 579,837
- British National Grid northing
- 199,309
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield · E05004096
- Parish or community
- E04003976
- Westminster constituency
- Maldon · E14001351
- Output area
- E00109404
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 016B · E01021535
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 016 · E02004500
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
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Rose Cottage, Main Road, Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 8RF | 28 October 2024 | £450,000 |
| Rosemary House, Main Road, Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 8RF | 30 October 2023 | £535,000 |
| Bankside, Main Road, Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 8RF | 31 March 2023 | £650,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 449 m
St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Woodville Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Elmwood Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 199
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 100
- Violence and sexual offences 36
- Drugs 12
- Public order 11
- Criminal damage and arson 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- CM3 8 residents
- 2,933
22 female, 8 male
Age bands in CM3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.6%
420 residents
234 residents
575 residents
788 residents
590 residents
This postcode contained 1% 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+
- 72.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 45.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 45.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 72.7%
- 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 straight-line
KINGSWAY SURGERY
CROUCH VALE MEDICAL CENTRE, BURNHAM ROAD, SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS, CHELMSFORD, CM3 5QP
ODS code F81170
1.3 km
GREENWOOD AND WYNCROFT SURGERY
3 PRIORY ROAD, BICKNACRE, CHELMSFORD, CM3 4EY
ODS code F81674
3.5 km
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Bell
BCT · Woodham Ferrers
- 0.1 miles
The Bell
BCT · Woodham Ferrers
- 0.2 miles
Edwin's Hall Rd
BCT · Woodham Ferrers
- 0.2 miles
Edwin's Hall Rd
BCT · Woodham Ferrers
- 0.4 miles
Ormonds Crescent
BCT · Woodham Ferrers
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 016B, 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
16,057 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 3
- 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
13 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Mary's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 449 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
199 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 100 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.