Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 8 secondary schools. The FitzWimarc School is the nearest published school at 412 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS6 0XQ
Wheatley · Rochford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wheatley
- Local authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford
- Postcode district
- SS6
- Postcode sector
- SS6 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS6 0XQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS6
- Postcode sector
- SS6 0
- Latitude
- 51.587452
- Longitude
- 0.608943
- British National Grid easting
- 580,833
- British National Grid northing
- 190,846
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Rochford · E07000075
- Electoral ward
- Wheatley · E05010856
- Parish or community
- E04004087
- Westminster constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford · E14001437
- Output area
- E00111547
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochford 008C · E01021962
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochford 008 · E02004570
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 SS6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 8
- 412 m
The FitzWimarc School
Academy converter
- 507 m
Rayleigh Primary School
Academy converter
- 528 m
Edward Francis Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,419
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 625
- Shoplifting 150
- Anti social behaviour 116
- Criminal damage and arson 110
- Vehicle crime 98
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
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
17
within 5 km straight-line
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
301 m
WILLIAM HARVEY SURGERY
83 LONDON ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9HR
ODS code F81065
1.0 km
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
1.7 km
GRACE HOUSE SURGERY
85 HART ROAD, THUNDERSLEY, BENFLEET, SS7 3PR
ODS code F81032
2.7 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
THE JONES FAMILY PRACTICE, 55 SOUTHEND ROAD, HOCKLEY, SS5 4PZ
ODS code F81125
3.6 km
THE HOLLIES
41 RECTORY ROAD, HADLEIGH, BENFLEET, SS7 2NA
ODS code F81075
3.6 km
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
4.1 km
SCOTT PARK SURGERY
205 WESTERN APPROACHES, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6XY
ODS code F81744
4.6 km
DR KHAN & PARTNERS
RUSHBOTTOM LANE SURGERY, 91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81001
4.6 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81142
4.6 km
DR KRISHNAN & PTNR - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81046
4.6 km
DR MALIK - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH RD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81223
4.6 km
EASTWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81128
4.6 km
THE GREENSWARD SURGERY
GREENSWARD LANE, HOCKLEY, SS5 5HQ
ODS code F81066
4.7 km
HIGHLANDS SURGERY
1629-1643 LONDON ROAD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 2SQ
ODS code F81112
4.8 km
THE LEIGH SURGERY
194 ELMSLEIGH DRIVE, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 4JQ
ODS code F81696
4.8 km
BENFLEET SURGERY
12 CONSTITUTION HILL, BENFLEET, SS7 1ED
ODS code F81713
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bull Lane
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.1 miles
Bull Lane
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.2 miles
Websters Way
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.2 miles
High Street
BCT · Rayleigh
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochford 008C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,392 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,419 published events cover 12 months, averaging 118.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 625 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.