Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. The King Edmund School is the nearest published school at 895 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS4 3JQ
Hockley and Ashingdon · Rochford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford
- Postcode district
- SS4
- Postcode sector
- SS4 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS4 3JQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS4
- Postcode sector
- SS4 3
- Latitude
- 51.604346
- Longitude
- 0.700223
- British National Grid easting
- 587,086
- British National Grid northing
- 192,954
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Rochford · E07000075
- Electoral ward
- Hockley and Ashingdon · E05010849
- Parish or community
- E04004074
- Westminster constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford · E14001437
- Output area
- E00111317
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochford 002A · E01021914
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochford 002 · E02004564
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 SS4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 895 m
The King Edmund School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Holt Farm Infant School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Holt Farm Junior School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 263
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 126
- Vehicle crime 28
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Other theft 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SS4 3 residents
- 8,450
Age bands in SS4 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.2%
1,318 residents
877 residents
1,725 residents
2,453 residents
2,036 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
ASHINGDON MEDICAL CENTRE
57 LASCELLES GARDENS, ASHINGDON, ROCHFORD, SS4 3BW
ODS code F81690
798 m
THE PRACTICE LEECON WAY
1 LEECON WAY, ASHINGTON GARDENS, ROCHFORD, SS4 1TU
ODS code F81675
1.8 km
THE GREENSWARD SURGERY
GREENSWARD LANE, HOCKLEY, SS5 5HQ
ODS code F81066
2.2 km
DR PUZEY,DR KOTHARI AND DR NANDA
THE PUZEY FAMILY PRACTICE, SOUTHWELL HOUSE, BACK LANE, ROCHFORD, SS4 1AY
ODS code F81007
2.5 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
THE JONES FAMILY PRACTICE, 55 SOUTHEND ROAD, HOCKLEY, SS5 4PZ
ODS code F81125
3.1 km
SCOTT PARK SURGERY
205 WESTERN APPROACHES, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6XY
ODS code F81744
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Wedgwood Way
BCT · Ashingdon
- 0.3 miles
Wedgwood Way
BCT · Ashingdon
- 0.3 miles
Lascelles Gardens
BCT · Ashingdon
- 0.3 miles
Lascelles Gardens
BCT · Ashingdon
- 0.3 miles
The Victory
BCT · Ashingdon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochford 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,806 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
263 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 126 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.