Property market
The five-year median is £412,500 from 4 recorded sales in SS7 1DS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Castle Point is £362,602 in June 2026, down 1.1% year on year.
SS7 1DS
Appleton · Castle Point · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Benfleet
- Ward
- Appleton
- Local authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point
- Postcode district
- SS7
- Postcode sector
- SS7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS7 1DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS7
- Postcode sector
- SS7 1
- Latitude
- 51.558362
- Longitude
- 0.562636
- British National Grid easting
- 577,739
- British National Grid northing
- 187,498
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Castle Point · E07000069
- Electoral ward
- Appleton · E05015691
- Parish or community
- E43000061
- Westminster constituency
- Castle Point · E14001154
- Output area
- E00109123
- Lower layer super output area
- Castle Point 004A · E01021479
- Middle layer super output area
- Castle Point 004 · E02004476
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 SS7
Property
52 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 175, Kimberley Road, Benfleet, SS7 1DS | 25 July 2025 | £385,000 |
| 185, Kimberley Road, Benfleet, SS7 1DS | 6 November 2024 | £410,000 |
| 181, Kimberley Road, Benfleet, SS7 1DS | 12 July 2024 | £430,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 44
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 8
- 338 m
Kents Hill Infant Academy
Academy converter
- 338 m
Kents Hill Junior School
Academy converter
- 499 m
Holy Family Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,087
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 475
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Anti social behaviour 88
- Other theft 82
- Public order 69
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 92
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- SS7 1 residents
- 9,864
37 female, 55 male
Age bands in SS7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
1,409 residents
995 residents
1,963 residents
2,626 residents
2,070 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SS7 1 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
22
within 5 km
BENFLEET SURGERY
12 CONSTITUTION HILL, BENFLEET, SS7 1ED
ODS code F81713
383 m
HIGH ROAD FAMILY DOCTORS
119 HIGH ROAD, BENFLEET, SS7 5LN
ODS code F81618
1.0 km
ESSEX WAY SURGERY
34 ESSEX WAY, BENFLEET, SS7 1LT
ODS code F81101
1.5 km
DR KHAN & PARTNERS
RUSHBOTTOM LANE SURGERY, 91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81001
1.7 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81142
1.7 km
GRACE HOUSE SURGERY
85 HART ROAD, THUNDERSLEY, BENFLEET, SS7 3PR
ODS code F81032
1.9 km
THE HOLLIES
41 RECTORY ROAD, HADLEIGH, BENFLEET, SS7 2NA
ODS code F81075
3.3 km
THIRD AVENUE HEALTH CENTRE
THIRD AVENUE, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 9SU
ODS code F81051
3.7 km
ROSE VILLA SURGERY
6 RECTORY PARK DRIVE, PITSEA, BASILDON, SS13 3DW
ODS code F81645
4.0 km
DR JO ARAYOMI'S PRACTICE
DIPPLE MEDICAL CENTRE, WICKFORD AVENUE, BASILDON, SS13 3HQ
ODS code Y00758
4.1 km
DR NASAH & PARTNERS
DIPPLE MEDICAL CENTRE, SOUTH WING, WICKFORD AVE, PITSEA, SS13 3HQ
ODS code F81158
4.1 km
DR SIMS AND PARTNERS
DIPPLE MEDICAL CENTRE, WICKFORD AVENUE, BASILDON, SS13 3HQ
ODS code Y00469
4.1 km
MURREE MEDICAL GROUP
201 RECTORY ROAD, PITSEA, BASILDON, SS13 1AJ
ODS code F81031
4.2 km
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
4.3 km
CANVEY VILLAGE SURGERY
391 LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JH
ODS code F81700
4.3 km
ARYAN MEDICAL CENTRE
FELMORES END, BASILDON, SS13 1PN
ODS code F81640
4.5 km
FELMORES MEDICAL CENTRE
THE FELMORES SURGERY, FELMORES END, BASILDON, SS13 1PN
ODS code F81186
4.5 km
GHAURI PRACTICE
1A HAWKESBURY ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0EX
ODS code F81205
4.5 km
WILLIAM HARVEY SURGERY
83 LONDON ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 9HR
ODS code F81065
4.6 km
OAKLANDS SURGERY
CENTRAL CANVEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JA
ODS code F81096
4.7 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
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
Clifton Avenue
BCT · South Benfleet
- 0.1 miles
Clifton Avenue
BCT · South Benfleet
- 0.2 miles
Cumberland Avenue
BCT · South Benfleet
- 0.2 miles
Cumberland Avenue
BCT · South Benfleet
- 0.3 miles
High Road
BCT · South Benfleet
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Castle Point 004A, 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
28,281 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
- 7
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 7
- 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
44 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 8 secondary schools. Kents Hill Infant Academy is the nearest published school at 338 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,087 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 475 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.