Property market
The five-year median is £320,000 from 3 recorded sales in SS7 5RU. 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 5RU
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS7 5RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS7
- Postcode sector
- SS7 5
- Latitude
- 51.560572
- Longitude
- 0.550352
- British National Grid easting
- 576,879
- British National Grid northing
- 187,714
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
- E00109110
- Lower layer super output area
- Castle Point 003B · E01021477
- Middle layer super output area
- Castle Point 003 · E02004475
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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 525, High Road, Benfleet, SS7 5RU | 20 June 2025 | £320,000 |
| 523, High Road, Benfleet, SS7 5RU | 4 November 2022 | £336,050 |
| 523, High Road, Benfleet, SS7 5RU | 13 August 2021 | £288,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 6
- 135 m
Jotmans Hall Primary School
Academy converter
- 369 m
The Appleton School
Academy converter
- 757 m
Kents Hill Infant Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,022
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 424
- Criminal damage and arson 100
- Anti social behaviour 88
- Other theft 75
- Public order 65
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SS7 5 residents
- 11,603
7 female, 7 male
Age bands in SS7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.7%
1,810 residents
1,139 residents
2,458 residents
3,022 residents
2,768 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SS7 5 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+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 88.9%
- 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
976 m
DR KHAN & PARTNERS
RUSHBOTTOM LANE SURGERY, 91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81001
1.1 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81142
1.1 km
HIGH ROAD FAMILY DOCTORS
119 HIGH ROAD, BENFLEET, SS7 5LN
ODS code F81618
1.5 km
ESSEX WAY SURGERY
34 ESSEX WAY, BENFLEET, SS7 1LT
ODS code F81101
2.0 km
GRACE HOUSE SURGERY
85 HART ROAD, THUNDERSLEY, BENFLEET, SS7 3PR
ODS code F81032
2.4 km
ROSE VILLA SURGERY
6 RECTORY PARK DRIVE, PITSEA, BASILDON, SS13 3DW
ODS code F81645
3.1 km
DR JO ARAYOMI'S PRACTICE
DIPPLE MEDICAL CENTRE, WICKFORD AVENUE, BASILDON, SS13 3HQ
ODS code Y00758
3.2 km
DR NASAH & PARTNERS
DIPPLE MEDICAL CENTRE, SOUTH WING, WICKFORD AVE, PITSEA, SS13 3HQ
ODS code F81158
3.2 km
DR SIMS AND PARTNERS
DIPPLE MEDICAL CENTRE, WICKFORD AVENUE, BASILDON, SS13 3HQ
ODS code Y00469
3.2 km
MURREE MEDICAL GROUP
201 RECTORY ROAD, PITSEA, BASILDON, SS13 1AJ
ODS code F81031
3.4 km
ARYAN MEDICAL CENTRE
FELMORES END, BASILDON, SS13 1PN
ODS code F81640
3.6 km
FELMORES MEDICAL CENTRE
THE FELMORES SURGERY, FELMORES END, BASILDON, SS13 1PN
ODS code F81186
3.6 km
THIRD AVENUE HEALTH CENTRE
THIRD AVENUE, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 9SU
ODS code F81051
4.1 km
THE HOLLIES
41 RECTORY ROAD, HADLEIGH, BENFLEET, SS7 2NA
ODS code F81075
4.2 km
FRYERNS MEDICAL CENTRE
PETERBOROUGH WAY, BASILDON, SS14 3SS
ODS code F81707
4.7 km
CANVEY VILLAGE SURGERY
391 LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JH
ODS code F81700
4.7 km
ROBERT FREW MEDICAL CENTRE
SILVA ISLAND WAY, WICKFORD, SS12 9NR
ODS code F81036
4.7 km
AUDLEY MILLS SURGERY
57 EASTWOOD ROAD, RAYLEIGH, SS6 7JF
ODS code F81123
4.8 km
CLAYHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
VANGE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTHVIEW ROAD, VANGE, BASILDON, SS16 4HD
ODS code F81006
4.8 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
- 0.0 miles
Limetree Avenue
BCT · South Benfleet
- 0.1 miles
Limetree Avenue
BCT · South Benfleet
- 0.1 miles
Elmhurst Avenue
BCT · South Benfleet
- 0.2 miles
The Spinnakers
BCT · South Benfleet
- 0.3 miles
Cemetery Corner
BCT · South Benfleet
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Castle Point 003B, 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
26,880 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 6 secondary schools. Jotmans Hall Primary School is the nearest published school at 135 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,022 published events cover 12 months, averaging 85.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 424 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.