Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 11 secondary schools. Kingsdown School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS2 6GH
St Laurence · Southend-on-Sea · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Laurence
- Local authority
- Southend-on-Sea
- Constituency
- Southend West and Leigh
- Postcode district
- SS2
- Postcode sector
- SS2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS2 6GH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS2
- Postcode sector
- SS2 6
- Latitude
- 51.568910
- Longitude
- 0.681050
- British National Grid easting
- 585,903
- British National Grid northing
- 188,965
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Southend-on-Sea · E06000033
- Electoral ward
- St Laurence · E05002220
- Parish or community
- E43000028
- Westminster constituency
- Southend West and Leigh · E14001502
- Output area
- E00080229
- Lower layer super output area
- Southend-on-Sea 002A · E01015863
- Middle layer super output area
- Southend-on-Sea 002 · E02003280
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 SS2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 62
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 11
- 1.0 km
Kingsdown School
Academy special converter
- 1.2 km
Eastwood Primary School & Nursery
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Heycroft Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,221
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 586
- Other theft 97
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Public order 83
- Vehicle crime 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SS2 6 residents
- 13,505
Age bands in SS2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.3%
2,361 residents
1,341 residents
3,873 residents
3,258 residents
2,434 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
24
within 5 km
SCOTT PARK SURGERY
205 WESTERN APPROACHES, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6XY
ODS code F81744
819 m
DR KRISHNAN & PTNR - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81046
1.3 km
DR MALIK - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH RD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81223
1.3 km
EASTWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81128
1.3 km
DR SOORIAKUMARAN
3 PRINCE AVENUE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6RL
ODS code F81092
1.7 km
DR PUZEY,DR KOTHARI AND DR NANDA
THE PUZEY FAMILY PRACTICE, SOUTHWELL HOUSE, BACK LANE, ROCHFORD, SS4 1AY
ODS code F81007
2.3 km
THE LEIGH SURGERY
194 ELMSLEIGH DRIVE, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 4JQ
ODS code F81696
2.3 km
THE PRACTICE LEECON WAY
1 LEECON WAY, ASHINGTON GARDENS, ROCHFORD, SS4 1TU
ODS code F81675
2.4 km
THE PALL MALL SURGERY
LEIGH PCC, 918 LONDON ROAD, LEIGH ON SEA, SS9 3NG
ODS code F81144
2.7 km
DR F KHAN CARNAVON ROAD SURGERY
CARNARVON ROAD SURGERY, 1ST FLOOR, 183-195 NORTH ROAD, WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, SS0 7AF
ODS code F81003
3.0 km
DR NAVIN KUMAR
183-195 NORTH ROAD, WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, SS0 7AF
ODS code F81147
3.0 km
WEST ROAD SURGERY
NORTH ROAD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 183-195 NORTH ROAD, WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, SS0 7AF
ODS code F81164
3.0 km
THE VALKYRIE SURGERY
VALKYRIE ROAD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 50 VALKYRIE ROAD, WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, SS0 8BU
ODS code F81097
3.4 km
WESTCLIFF MEDICAL CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, VALKYRIE PCC, 50 VALKYRIE ROAD, WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, SS0 8BU
ODS code F81207
3.4 km
SAS MID AND SOUTH ESSEX STP
SUITE 7, SKYLINE PLAZA, VICTORIA AVENUE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6BB
ODS code Y06389
3.4 km
ASHINGDON MEDICAL CENTRE
57 LASCELLES GARDENS, ASHINGDON, ROCHFORD, SS4 3BW
ODS code F81690
3.6 km
SOUTHEND MEDICAL CENTRE
50-52 LONDON ROAD, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS1 1NX
ODS code F81159
3.7 km
THE QUEENSWAY SURGERY
QUEENSWAY SURGERY, 75 QUEENSWAY, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS1 2AB
ODS code F81081
3.8 km
HIGHLANDS SURGERY
1629-1643 LONDON ROAD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 2SQ
ODS code F81112
3.8 km
ST LUKE'S HEALTH CENTRE
PANTILE AVENUE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 4BD
ODS code Y02707
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 24 matching practices.
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
Rochford Business Park
BCT · Eastwood
- 0.1 miles
Skylark Hotel
BCT · Rochford
- 0.1 miles
Comet Way
BCT · Eastwood
- 0.2 miles
Rochford Business Park
BCT · Eastwood
- 0.2 miles
Comet Way
BCT · Eastwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southend-on-Sea 002A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,719 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,221 published events cover 12 months, averaging 101.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 586 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.