Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 12 secondary schools. Lift Westerings is the nearest published school at 596 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS5 4JG
Hawkwell West · Rochford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hawkwell West
- Local authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford
- Postcode district
- SS5
- Postcode sector
- SS5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS5 4JG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS5
- Postcode sector
- SS5 4
- Latitude
- 51.590506
- Longitude
- 0.654845
- British National Grid easting
- 584,000
- British National Grid northing
- 191,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Rochford · E07000075
- Electoral ward
- Hawkwell West · E05010847
- Parish or community
- E04004079
- Westminster constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford · E14001437
- Output area
- E00111410
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochford 012E · E01021933
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochford 012 · E02006981
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 SS5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 12
- 596 m
Lift Westerings
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Lift Hockley
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Grove Wood Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 337
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 131
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Shoplifting 33
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Other theft 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SS5 4 residents
- 10,104
Age bands in SS5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.6%
1,685 residents
1,068 residents
2,236 residents
2,936 residents
2,312 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
18
within 5 km straight-line
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
THE JONES FAMILY PRACTICE, 55 SOUTHEND ROAD, HOCKLEY, SS5 4PZ
ODS code F81125
1.1 km
THE GREENSWARD SURGERY
GREENSWARD LANE, HOCKLEY, SS5 5HQ
ODS code F81066
2.1 km
SCOTT PARK SURGERY
205 WESTERN APPROACHES, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6XY
ODS code F81744
2.4 km
ASHINGDON MEDICAL CENTRE
57 LASCELLES GARDENS, ASHINGDON, ROCHFORD, SS4 3BW
ODS code F81690
2.7 km
THE PRACTICE LEECON WAY
1 LEECON WAY, ASHINGTON GARDENS, ROCHFORD, SS4 1TU
ODS code F81675
3.0 km
DR KRISHNAN & PTNR - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81046
3.0 km
DR MALIK - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH RD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81223
3.0 km
EASTWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81128
3.0 km
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
3.4 km
DR PUZEY,DR KOTHARI AND DR NANDA
THE PUZEY FAMILY PRACTICE, SOUTHWELL HOUSE, BACK LANE, ROCHFORD, SS4 1AY
ODS code F81007
3.7 km
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
3.8 km
THE LEIGH SURGERY
194 ELMSLEIGH DRIVE, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 4JQ
ODS code F81696
3.9 km
WILLIAM HARVEY SURGERY
83 LONDON ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9HR
ODS code F81065
4.0 km
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
4.7 km
DR SOORIAKUMARAN
3 PRINCE AVENUE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6RL
ODS code F81092
4.7 km
THE PALL MALL SURGERY
LEIGH PCC, 918 LONDON ROAD, LEIGH ON SEA, SS9 3NG
ODS code F81144
4.8 km
HIGHLANDS SURGERY
1629-1643 LONDON ROAD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 2SQ
ODS code F81112
4.9 km
THE HOLLIES
41 RECTORY ROAD, HADLEIGH, BENFLEET, SS7 2NA
ODS code F81075
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Mount Bovers Lane
BCT · Hawkwell
- 0.4 miles
Mount Bovers Lane
BCT · Hawkwell
- 0.5 miles
Tudor Way
BCT · Hawkwell
- 0.6 miles
Tudor Way
BCT · Hawkwell
- 0.6 miles
The White Hart
BCT · Hawkwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochford 012E, 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
25,528 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
337 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 131 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.