Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Thriftwood School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM4 0FB
South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon
- Postcode district
- CM4
- Postcode sector
- CM4 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM4 0FB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM4
- Postcode sector
- CM4 0
- Latitude
- 51.698627
- Longitude
- 0.438292
- British National Grid easting
- 568,600
- British National Grid northing
- 202,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting · E05004112
- Parish or community
- E04003964
- Westminster constituency
- Maldon · E14001351
- Output area
- E00109738
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 018B · E01021602
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 018 · E02004502
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 CM4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 2.0 km
Thriftwood School
Academy special converter
- 2.3 km
Margaretting Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Galleywood Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 29
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Other theft 5
- Public order 5
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Drugs 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM4 0 residents
- 4,763
Age bands in CM4 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.6%
731 residents
503 residents
1,004 residents
1,445 residents
1,200 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.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
WHITLEY HOUSE SURGERY
CROMPTON BLD, WRITTLE ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3RW
ODS code F81057
3.3 km
STOCK SURGERY
COMMON ROAD, STOCK, INGATESTONE, CM4 9NF
ODS code F81040
3.8 km
THE WRITTLE SURGERY
16A LORDSHIP ROAD, WRITTLE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3EH
ODS code F81098
3.9 km
SUTHERLAND LODGE SURGERY
115 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7PY
ODS code F81117
4.3 km
BEAUCHAMP HOUSE
37 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 0DB
ODS code F81083
4.4 km
THE NEW FOLLY SURGERY
BELL MEAD, HIGH STREET, INGATESTONE, CM4 0FA
ODS code F81163
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Woodview
BCT · Margaretting
- 0.3 miles
Woodview
BCT · Margaretting
- 0.6 miles
Hylands Park
BCT · Chelmsford
- 0.6 miles
Hylands Park
BCT · Chelmsford
- 0.7 miles
Whites Place
BCT · Margaretting
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 018B, 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
13,702 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
29 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.