Property market
The five-year median is £495,000 from 7 recorded sales in SS6 8AF. 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.
SS6 8AF
Wheatley · Rochford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS6 8AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS6
- Postcode sector
- SS6 8
- Latitude
- 51.591096
- Longitude
- 0.606061
- British National Grid easting
- 580,619
- British National Grid northing
- 191,244
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
- E00111556
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochford 008E · E01021964
- 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
Property
26 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22, Link Road, Rayleigh, SS6 8AF | 16 February 2026 | £525,000 |
| 16, Link Road, Rayleigh, SS6 8AF | 8 August 2025 | £495,000 |
| 2a, Link Road, Rayleigh, SS6 8AF | 21 March 2025 | £382,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 442 m
Edward Francis Primary School
Community school
- 444 m
The FitzWimarc School
Academy converter
- 471 m
Glebe Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,464
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 675
- Anti social behaviour 135
- Shoplifting 122
- Criminal damage and arson 109
- Vehicle crime 101
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 69
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- SS6 8 residents
- 12,116
35 female, 34 male
Age bands in SS6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.5%
1,973 residents
1,188 residents
2,436 residents
3,226 residents
3,178 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SS6 8 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
11
within 5 km
WILLIAM HARVEY SURGERY
83 LONDON ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9HR
ODS code F81065
613 m
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
684 m
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
1.3 km
GRACE HOUSE SURGERY
85 HART ROAD, THUNDERSLEY, BENFLEET, SS7 3PR
ODS code F81032
2.9 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
THE JONES FAMILY PRACTICE, 55 SOUTHEND ROAD, HOCKLEY, SS5 4PZ
ODS code F81125
3.6 km
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
3.7 km
THE HOLLIES
41 RECTORY ROAD, HADLEIGH, BENFLEET, SS7 2NA
ODS code F81075
4.0 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
THE GREENSWARD SURGERY
GREENSWARD LANE, HOCKLEY, SS5 5HQ
ODS code F81066
4.7 km
SCOTT PARK SURGERY
205 WESTERN APPROACHES, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6XY
ODS code F81744
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Travellers Joy
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.2 miles
The Travellers Joy
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.2 miles
Cheapside East
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.2 miles
Cheapside East
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.2 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Rayleigh
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochford 008E, 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
28,286 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 12
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- 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
Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. Edward Francis Primary School is the nearest published school at 442 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,464 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 675 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.