Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. Omnia Foundation is the nearest published school at 284 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS6 9ET
Downhall and Rawreth · Rochford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Downhall and Rawreth
- Local authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford
- Postcode district
- SS6
- Postcode sector
- SS6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS6 9ET
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS6
- Postcode sector
- SS6 9
- Latitude
- 51.597205
- Longitude
- 0.582368
- British National Grid easting
- 578,954
- British National Grid northing
- 191,865
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Rochford · E07000075
- Electoral ward
- Downhall and Rawreth · E05010844
- Parish or community
- E04004086
- Westminster constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford · E14001437
- Output area
- E00111333
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochford 006A · E01021920
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochford 006 · E02004568
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
- 40
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 284 m
Omnia Foundation
Other independent special school
- 284 m
Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
St Nicholas Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 676
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 315
- Anti social behaviour 86
- Vehicle crime 54
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Public order 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SS6 9 residents
- 12,806
Age bands in SS6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
2,340 residents
1,349 residents
3,316 residents
3,695 residents
2,353 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.
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
11
within 5 km
WILLIAM HARVEY SURGERY
83 LONDON ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9HR
ODS code F81065
1.2 km
DOWNHALL PARK SURGERY
49 RAWRETH LANE, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9QD
ODS code F81704
1.6 km
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
2.2 km
GRACE HOUSE SURGERY
85 HART ROAD, THUNDERSLEY, BENFLEET, SS7 3PR
ODS code F81032
3.1 km
ROBERT FREW MEDICAL CENTRE
SILVA ISLAND WAY, WICKFORD, SS12 9NR
ODS code F81036
3.3 km
CONNER & PARTNERS
175 FERRY ROAD, HULLBRIDGE, HOCKLEY, SS5 6JH
ODS code F81061
3.7 km
DR KHAN & PARTNERS
RUSHBOTTOM LANE SURGERY, 91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81001
3.8 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81142
3.8 km
SWANWOOD PARTNERSHIP
2 MARKET AVENUE, WICKFORD, SS12 0AG
ODS code F81732
4.7 km
LONDON ROAD SURGERY
MARKET HOUSE, MARKET ROAD, WICKFORD, SS12 0AA
ODS code F81041
4.7 km
BENFLEET SURGERY
12 CONSTITUTION HILL, BENFLEET, SS7 1ED
ODS code F81713
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
- 0.0 miles
Lower Barn Farm
BCT · Rawreth
- 0.0 miles
Lower Barn Farm
BCT · Rawreth
- 0.2 miles
Little Wheatley Chase
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.2 miles
Little Wheatley Chase
BCT · Rayleigh
- 0.2 miles
Carpenters Arms Rdbt
BCT · Rawreth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochford 006A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,673 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
676 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 315 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.