Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Helena Romanes School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM6 3BB
Great Dunmow North · Uttlesford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dunmow
- Ward
- Great Dunmow North
- Local authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Postcode district
- CM6
- Postcode sector
- CM6 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM6 3BB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2016
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM6
- Postcode sector
- CM6 3
- Latitude
- 51.878425
- Longitude
- 0.370962
- British National Grid easting
- 563,297
- British National Grid northing
- 222,640
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Uttlesford · E07000077
- Electoral ward
- Great Dunmow North · E05014489
- Parish or community
- E04012937
- Westminster constituency
- North West Essex · E14001402
- Output area
- E00112120
- Lower layer super output area
- Uttlesford 007F · E01033056
- Middle layer super output area
- Uttlesford 007 · E02004597
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 CM6
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Brick Kiln Farmhouse, St Edmunds Lane, Dunmow, CM6 3BB | 12 September 2003 | £425,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.2 km
Helena Romanes School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Dunmow St Mary's Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.3 km
Cambian Great Dunmow School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 516
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 219
- Criminal damage and arson 66
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Public order 39
- Other theft 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM6 3 residents
- 8,553
Age bands in CM6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
1,600 residents
990 residents
1,754 residents
2,268 residents
1,425 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
ANGEL LANE SURGERY
ANGEL LANE, DUNMOW, CM6 1AQ
ODS code F81090
922 m
JOHN TASKER HOUSE SURGERY
JOHN TASKER HOUSE, 56 NEW STREET, DUNMOW, CM6 1BH
ODS code F81118
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
The Broadway
BCT · Great Dunmow
- 0.2 miles
The Broadway
BCT · Great Dunmow
- 0.3 miles
St Edmunds Lane
BCT · Great Dunmow
- 0.4 miles
The Causeway
BCT · Great Dunmow
- 0.4 miles
The Causeway
BCT · Great Dunmow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Uttlesford 007F, 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
22,162 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
516 published events cover 12 months, averaging 43 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 219 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.