Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 11 secondary schools. Wyburns Primary School is the nearest published school at 867 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS6 7XU
St Michael's · Castle Point · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rayleigh
- Ward
- St Michael's
- Local authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point
- Postcode district
- SS6
- Postcode sector
- SS6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS6 7XU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS6
- Postcode sector
- SS6 7
- Latitude
- 51.570962
- Longitude
- 0.628507
- British National Grid easting
- 582,254
- British National Grid northing
- 189,061
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Castle Point · E07000069
- Electoral ward
- St Michael's · E05015700
- Parish or community
- E43000061
- Westminster constituency
- Castle Point · E14001154
- Output area
- E00109370
- Lower layer super output area
- Castle Point 005D · E01021532
- Middle layer super output area
- Castle Point 005 · E02004477
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Earlswood, Arterial Road, Rayleigh, SS6 7XU | 7 October 2005 | £250,000 |
| Avalon, Arterial Road, Rayleigh, SS6 7XU | 29 April 2004 | £335,000 |
| Avalon, Arterial Road, Rayleigh, SS6 7XU | 2 October 2002 | £340,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 11
- 867 m
Wyburns Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Grove Wood Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Edwards Hall Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 618
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 273
- Other theft 69
- Public order 53
- Criminal damage and arson 48
- Vehicle crime 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- SS6 7 residents
- 7,502
2 female, 5 male
Age bands in SS6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.5%
1,154 residents
711 residents
1,506 residents
2,019 residents
1,939 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SS6 7 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
15
within 5 km
THE HOLLIES
41 RECTORY ROAD, HADLEIGH, BENFLEET, SS7 2NA
ODS code F81075
2.1 km
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
2.1 km
THE LEIGH SURGERY
194 ELMSLEIGH DRIVE, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 4JQ
ODS code F81696
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
2.6 km
DR MALIK - KENT ELMS HC
KENT ELMS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 RAYLEIGH RD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81223
2.6 km
EASTWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
1 RAYLEIGH ROAD, EASTWOOD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 5UU
ODS code F81128
2.6 km
HIGHLANDS SURGERY
1629-1643 LONDON ROAD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 2SQ
ODS code F81112
2.6 km
SCOTT PARK SURGERY
205 WESTERN APPROACHES, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6XY
ODS code F81744
2.9 km
GRACE HOUSE SURGERY
85 HART ROAD, THUNDERSLEY, BENFLEET, SS7 3PR
ODS code F81032
3.2 km
WILLIAM HARVEY SURGERY
83 LONDON ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9HR
ODS code F81065
3.3 km
THE PALL MALL SURGERY
LEIGH PCC, 918 LONDON ROAD, LEIGH ON SEA, SS9 3NG
ODS code F81144
3.6 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
THE JONES FAMILY PRACTICE, 55 SOUTHEND ROAD, HOCKLEY, SS5 4PZ
ODS code F81125
3.8 km
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
3.9 km
THE GREENSWARD SURGERY
GREENSWARD LANE, HOCKLEY, SS5 5HQ
ODS code F81066
4.9 km
BENFLEET SURGERY
12 CONSTITUTION HILL, BENFLEET, SS7 1ED
ODS code F81713
5.0 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
- 0.4 miles
Lancaster Road
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.4 miles
Glenwood Avenue
BCT · Eastwood
- 0.4 miles
Lancaster Road
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.4 miles
Rayleigh Avenue
BCT · Eastwood
- 0.4 miles
Clarence Road South
BCT · Rayleigh
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Castle Point 005D, 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
26,350 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
618 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 273 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.