Property market
The five-year median is £380,000 from 7 recorded sales in SS5 5EQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Rochford is £415,574 in June 2026, up 6.2% year on year.
SS5 5EQ
Hockley and Ashingdon · Rochford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hockley
- Local authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford
- Postcode district
- SS5
- Postcode sector
- SS5 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS5 5EQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS5
- Postcode sector
- SS5 5
- Latitude
- 51.603372
- Longitude
- 0.670499
- British National Grid easting
- 585,032
- British National Grid northing
- 192,770
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
- E00111416
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochford 011D · E01021939
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochford 011 · E02006980
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
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 43, Chestnut Close, Hockley, SS5 5EQ | 28 November 2025 | £365,000 |
| 45, Chestnut Close, Hockley, SS5 5EQ | 29 August 2025 | £420,000 |
| 60, Chestnut Close, Hockley, SS5 5EQ | 26 June 2024 | £385,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 507 m
Lift Greensward
Academy sponsor led
- 851 m
Lift Plumberow
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Lift Westerings
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 543
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 228
- Anti social behaviour 63
- Criminal damage and arson 51
- Other theft 41
- Public order 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 67
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SS5 5 residents
- 5,738
37 female, 30 male
Age bands in SS5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.4%
786 residents
518 residents
1,068 residents
1,653 residents
1,520 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SS5 5 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+
- 96.6%
- 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
12
within 5 km
THE GREENSWARD SURGERY
GREENSWARD LANE, HOCKLEY, SS5 5HQ
ODS code F81066
447 m
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
THE JONES FAMILY PRACTICE, 55 SOUTHEND ROAD, HOCKLEY, SS5 4PZ
ODS code F81125
1.0 km
ASHINGDON MEDICAL CENTRE
57 LASCELLES GARDENS, ASHINGDON, ROCHFORD, SS4 3BW
ODS code F81690
1.4 km
THE PRACTICE LEECON WAY
1 LEECON WAY, ASHINGTON GARDENS, ROCHFORD, SS4 1TU
ODS code F81675
2.5 km
DR PUZEY,DR KOTHARI AND DR NANDA
THE PUZEY FAMILY PRACTICE, SOUTHWELL HOUSE, BACK LANE, ROCHFORD, SS4 1AY
ODS code F81007
3.4 km
SCOTT PARK SURGERY
205 WESTERN APPROACHES, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6XY
ODS code F81744
3.6 km
DR KRISHNAN & PTNR - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81046
4.4 km
DR MALIK - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH RD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81223
4.4 km
EASTWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81128
4.4 km
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
4.6 km
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
4.6 km
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
4.8 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Leamington Road
BCT · Hockley
- 0.3 miles
Leamington Road
BCT · Hockley
- 0.3 miles
Harrogate Road
BCT · Hockley
- 0.3 miles
Greensward School
BCT · Hockley
- 0.3 miles
Greensward School
BCT · Hockley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochford 011D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,809 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
- 3
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 6
- 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
Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Lift Greensward is the nearest published school at 507 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
543 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 228 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.