Bishop's Stortford
Bishop's Stortford is covered by postcode districts CM22 and CM23. It is mostly in the East Hertfordshire council area: 989 of its 994 postcodes. The others are in Uttlesford. 989 are in Hertfordshire and 5 in Essex.
Every postcode in Bishop's Stortford, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 37
- At medium risk at worst: 11
- At low risk at worst: 53
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 893
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 994 postcodes in Bishop's Stortford that ONS places, 37 have a home or business at high risk, 11 are at medium risk at worst, 53 are at low risk at worst and 893 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 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 51.8686, longitude 0.1584. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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 postcodes at high risk
37 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 19 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. CM23 3LE, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 13 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. CM23 3AS, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. CM23 2SS, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Bishop's Stortford?
Homes sold for a typical £415,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3.5% on the 12 months before. At 683 of the 964 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 276 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 101 of its 994 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bishops Stortford, 500 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Bishop's Stortford?
Homes in Bishop's Stortford sold for a typical £415,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 485 sales, down 3.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £660,000 119 sales
- Semi-detached £445,000 147 sales
- Terraced £375,000 126 sales
- Flat or maisonette £250,000 93 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CM23 district, Bishop's Stortford's main postcode district: a typical £425,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bishop's Stortford: 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
Are new homes being built in Bishop's Stortford?
94 of the 994 postcodes now in use in Bishop's Stortford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 85 of the 716 homes sold in Bishop's Stortford were newly built (12%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM23 district, 20%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Bishop's Stortford | Across the CM23 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 4 of 485 (Under 1%) | 34 of 538 (6%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 85 of 716 (12%) | 166 of 838 (20%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Bishop's Stortford?
Ofcom reports on 964 of the 994 postcodes in Bishop's Stortford. At 683 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Bishop's Stortford at risk of flooding?
101 of the 994 postcodes in Bishop's Stortford 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 276 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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
Which schools are in Bishop's Stortford?
The open schools at the postcodes in Bishop's Stortford (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- St Michael's Church of England Primary School100 m 226 pupils, 236 places
- Windhill21200 m 451 pupils, 420 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School B/S650 m 436 pupils, 420 places
- Bishop's Stortford College700 m 1,241 pupils, 1,340 places
- Northgate Primary School1.0 km 455 pupils, 480 places
- Thorn Grove Primary School1.1 km 223 pupils, 240 places
- Thorley Hill Primary School1.2 km 228 pupils, 240 places
- Richard Whittington Primary School1.4 km 273 pupils, 330 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Bishop's Stortford?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bishop's Stortford is Bishops Stortford Rail Station, 500 m away in a straight line.
- Bishops Stortford Rail Station Railway station 500 mWalk
- Stansted Mountfitchet Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle
- Sawbridgeworth Rail Station Railway station 6.0 kmDrive
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Bishop's Stortford?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Bishop's Stortford. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Church Street Partnership Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01279 657636 200 mWalk
- South Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01279 465700 250 mWalk
- Helix Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01279 594450 1.1 kmWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Bishop's Stortford safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,682 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bishop's Stortford over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 198 September 2025
- 211 October 2025
- 189 November 2025
- 212 December 2025
- 172 January 2026
- 181 February 2026
- 234 March 2026
- 216 April 2026
- 261 May 2026
- 263 June 2026
- 280 July 2026
- 265 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 71, robbery 34, other crime 26, theft from the person 24, bicycle theft 23, possession of weapons 12.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Bishop's Stortford?
- Councils
- East Hertfordshire (989) and Uttlesford (5)
- County councils
- Hertfordshire (989) and Essex (5)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Hertford and Stortford (989), Harlow (3) and North West Essex (2)
- Police force areas
- Hertfordshire (989) and Essex (5)
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Bishop's Stortford
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Bishop's Stortford is in East Hertfordshire; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell East Hertfordshire about council tax Council tax, on eastherts.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Bishop's Stortford
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Bishop's Stortford postcodes
994 postcodes in use in Bishop's Stortford, by district:
Those districts are all in the CM postcode area.
Check a Bishop's Stortford postcode
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Places near Bishop's Stortford
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Bishop's Stortford's £415,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Bishop's Stortford
- What is it like to live in Bishop's Stortford?
- Homes sold for a typical £415,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3.5% on the 12 months before. At 683 of the 964 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 276 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 101 of its 994 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bishops Stortford, 500 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Bishop's Stortford?
- Bishop's Stortford is covered by postcode districts CM22 and CM23, across 994 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Bishop's Stortford?
- Homes in Bishop's Stortford sold for a typical £415,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 485 sales, down 3.5% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Bishop's Stortford?
- In Bishop's Stortford, primary schools at its postcodes include St Michael's Church of England Primary School, Windhill21 and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School B/S; secondary schools at its postcodes include St Mary's Catholic School, White Trees Independent School and Bishop's Stortford College. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Bishop's Stortford have a railway station?
- Yes: Bishops Stortford is 500 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Bishop's Stortford, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Bishop's Stortford?
- Ofcom reports on 964 of the 994 postcodes in Bishop's Stortford. At 683 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Bishop's Stortford at risk of flooding?
- 101 of the 994 postcodes in Bishop's Stortford 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 276 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Bishop's Stortford?
- 94 of the 994 postcodes now in use in Bishop's Stortford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 85 of the 716 homes sold in Bishop's Stortford were newly built (12%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM23 district, 20%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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