Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 10 secondary schools. Lift Westerings is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS5 4JR
Roche South · Rochford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hockley
- Ward
- Roche South
- Local authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford
- Postcode district
- SS5
- Postcode sector
- SS5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS5 4JR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS5
- Postcode sector
- SS5 4
- Latitude
- 51.588305
- Longitude
- 0.670612
- British National Grid easting
- 585,101
- British National Grid northing
- 191,095
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Rochford · E07000075
- Electoral ward
- Roche South · E05010853
- Parish or community
- E04004083
- Westminster constituency
- Southend East and Rochford · E14001501
- Output area
- E00180523
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochford 007D · E01021954
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochford 007 · E02004569
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Potash Bungalows, Hockley, SS5 4JR | 7 March 2013 | £230,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 10
- 1.3 km
Lift Westerings
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Holt Farm Junior School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.9 km
Holt Farm Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 287
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 143
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Public order 19
- Other theft 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SS5 4 residents
- 10,104
2 female, 3 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SS5 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
14
within 5 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
THE JONES FAMILY PRACTICE, 55 SOUTHEND ROAD, HOCKLEY, SS5 4PZ
ODS code F81125
1.7 km
THE PRACTICE LEECON WAY
1 LEECON WAY, ASHINGTON GARDENS, ROCHFORD, SS4 1TU
ODS code F81675
1.9 km
SCOTT PARK SURGERY
205 WESTERN APPROACHES, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6XY
ODS code F81744
1.9 km
ASHINGDON MEDICAL CENTRE
57 LASCELLES GARDENS, ASHINGDON, ROCHFORD, SS4 3BW
ODS code F81690
1.9 km
THE GREENSWARD SURGERY
GREENSWARD LANE, HOCKLEY, SS5 5HQ
ODS code F81066
2.1 km
DR PUZEY,DR KOTHARI AND DR NANDA
THE PUZEY FAMILY PRACTICE, SOUTHWELL HOUSE, BACK LANE, ROCHFORD, SS4 1AY
ODS code F81007
2.6 km
DR KRISHNAN & PTNR - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81046
2.8 km
DR MALIK - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH RD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81223
2.8 km
EASTWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81128
2.8 km
THE LEIGH SURGERY
194 ELMSLEIGH DRIVE, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 4JQ
ODS code F81696
3.8 km
DR SOORIAKUMARAN
3 PRINCE AVENUE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6RL
ODS code F81092
3.9 km
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
4.4 km
THE PALL MALL SURGERY
LEIGH PCC, 918 LONDON ROAD, LEIGH ON SEA, SS9 3NG
ODS code F81144
4.6 km
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
4.9 km
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
- 0.2 miles
Nursery Corner
BCT · Hawkwell
- 0.2 miles
Nursery Corner
BCT · Hawkwell
- 0.2 miles
Ironwell Lane
BCT · Hawkwell
- 0.2 miles
Ironwell Lane
BCT · Hawkwell
- 0.4 miles
Mount Bovers Lane
BCT · Hawkwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochford 007D, 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
17,056 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
287 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 143 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.