CM9 postcode district: Maldon and around, Essex

CM9 is a postcode district in Essex, with 1,072 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Maldon, Tollesbury, Danbury and 1 more place. It is split between 3 councils: Maldon (1,060 postcodes), Colchester (9) and Braintree (3).

Postcodes in use: 1,072
Sectors: 5
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 4 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in CM9, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 127
In use before 2020: 945
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,072 postcodes in CM9 that ONS places, 127 are new since 2020 and 945 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 170 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.7404, longitude 0.6987. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

CM9 4EZJuly 2026 CM9 4FEJuly 2026 CM9 4EUJune 2026 CM9 4FZJune 2026 CM9 4GAJune 2026

Where the new postcodes lie together

47 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. CM9 4EU, is the newest of them.
34 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. CM9 6HQ, is the newest of them.
16 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. CM9 6UB, is the newest of them.
14 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. CM9 4EZ, is the newest of them.
7 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. CM9 9GD, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in CM9?

Ofcom reports on 986 of the 1,072 postcodes in CM9. At 700 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 16 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit700 of 986

Postcodes where every home can get superfast892 of 986

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband16 of 986

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is CM9 at risk of flooding?

229 of the 1,072 postcodes in CM9 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1,334 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 229 of 1,072 postcodes High: 897Medium: 437Low: 1,797Very low: 1,371

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in CM9?

Homes in CM9 sold for a typical £368,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 413 sales, down 4.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£368,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£385,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 4.4% on the 12 months before

Detached £520,000 160 sales
Semi-detached £355,000 138 sales
Terraced £292,250 84 sales
Flat or maisonette £210,000 31 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it