Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Lift Hockley is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS5 6AX
Hullbridge · Rochford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hullbridge
- Local authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford
- Postcode district
- SS5
- Postcode sector
- SS5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS5 6AX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 August 2006
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS5
- Postcode sector
- SS5 6
- Latitude
- 51.610685
- Longitude
- 0.626164
- British National Grid easting
- 581,933
- British National Grid northing
- 193,472
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Rochford · E07000075
- Electoral ward
- Hullbridge · E05010850
- Parish or community
- E04004081
- Westminster constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford · E14001437
- Output area
- E00111452
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochford 001C · E01021944
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochford 001 · E02004563
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
- 24
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.6 km
Lift Hockley
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Down Hall Primary School
Community school
- 2.1 km
Riverside Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 248
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 129
- Shoplifting 21
- Vehicle crime 18
- Other theft 15
- Public order 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SS5 6 residents
- 6,438
Age bands in SS5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.6%
840 residents
585 residents
1,157 residents
1,794 residents
2,017 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
1.7 km
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
1.8 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
THE JONES FAMILY PRACTICE, 55 SOUTHEND ROAD, HOCKLEY, SS5 4PZ
ODS code F81125
2.4 km
WILLIAM HARVEY SURGERY
83 LONDON ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9HR
ODS code F81065
2.7 km
THE GREENSWARD SURGERY
GREENSWARD LANE, HOCKLEY, SS5 5HQ
ODS code F81066
3.0 km
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
3.1 km
ASHINGDON MEDICAL CENTRE
57 LASCELLES GARDENS, ASHINGDON, ROCHFORD, SS4 3BW
ODS code F81690
4.6 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
CROUCH VALE MEDICAL CENTRE, BURNHAM ROAD, SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS, CHELMSFORD, CM3 5QP
ODS code F81170
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Pevensey Gardens
BCT · Hullbridge
- 0.5 miles
Pevensey Gardens
BCT · Hullbridge
- 0.6 miles
Crouch Avenue
BCT · Hullbridge
- 0.6 miles
Crouch Avenue
BCT · Hullbridge
- 0.6 miles
Church Road
BCT · Lower Hockley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochford 001C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,347 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
248 published events cover 12 months, averaging 20.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 129 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.