Elsenham

Elsenham is covered by postcode district CM22. It is in the Uttlesford council area, Essex.

Typical price £412,500 Homes sold in Elsenham, last 12 months. ▼ 2.9% on the year before Gigabit broadband 77 of 87 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 3 of 88 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Elsenham, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Elsenham, by flood risk Of the 88 postcodes in Elsenham that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 85 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Elsenham. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. M11 CM22 6BY: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DA: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DB: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DD: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DE: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DF: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DG: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DL: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DQ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DU: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EA: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EB: not on the flood risk listCM22 6ED: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EF: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EG: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EH: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EL: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EN: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EP: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EQ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6ET: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EY: not on the flood risk listCM22 6EZ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6FF: not on the flood risk listCM22 6FJ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6GA: not on the flood risk listCM22 6GB: not on the flood risk listCM22 6GR: not on the flood risk listCM22 6GS: not on the flood risk listCM22 6GU: not on the flood risk listCM22 6GW: not on the flood risk listCM22 6GX: not on the flood risk listCM22 6GY: not on the flood risk listCM22 6HA: not on the flood risk listCM22 6HB: not on the flood risk listCM22 6HD: not on the flood risk listCM22 6HE: not on the flood risk listCM22 6HG: not on the flood risk listCM22 6JP: not on the flood risk listCM22 6JR: not on the flood risk listCM22 6JS: not on the flood risk listCM22 6JX: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LA: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LB: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LD: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LE: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LG: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LH: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LJ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LL: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LP: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LQ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LR: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LS: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LT: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LU: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LX: not on the flood risk listCM22 6LZ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6TF: not on the flood risk listCM22 6TX: not on the flood risk listCM22 6TY: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UD: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UE: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UF: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UG: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UH: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UJ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UL: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UN: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UP: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UQ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UR: not on the flood risk listCM22 6US: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UT: not on the flood risk listCM22 6UU: not on the flood risk listCM22 6XT: not on the flood risk listCM22 6XU: not on the flood risk listCM22 6XW: not on the flood risk listCM22 6YA: not on the flood risk listCM22 6YB: not on the flood risk listCM22 6YE: not on the flood risk listCM22 6YF: not on the flood risk listCM22 6ZB: not on the flood risk listCM22 6ZE: not on the flood risk listCM22 6ZJ: not on the flood risk listCM22 6DH: medium flood risk at worstCM22 6DN: high flood riskCM22 6JL: high flood risk Elsenham Map of every postcode in Elsenham, by flood risk Of the 88 postcodes in Elsenham that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 85 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Elsenham. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Elsenham
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 85

Of the 88 postcodes in Elsenham that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 85 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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.9154, longitude 0.2278. 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

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

CM22 6DN2 at high riskCM22 6JL1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Elsenham?

Homes sold for a typical £412,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.9% on the 12 months before. At 77 of the 87 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 88 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Peacock Surgery, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Elsenham, 600 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 Elsenham?

Homes in Elsenham sold for a typical £412,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 58 sales, down 2.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£412,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£425,000
12 months to August 2026
£412,500

▼ down 2.9% on the 12 months before

Detached£520,000 27 sales
Semi-detached£380,000 18 sales
Terraced£285,000 11 sales
Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Across the whole CM22 district, Elsenham's main postcode district: a typical £482,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Elsenham: 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 Elsenham?

3 of the 88 postcodes now in use in Elsenham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 25 of the 84 homes sold in Elsenham were newly built (30%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM22 district, 36%.

The newest postcodes

CM22 6ZEsince March 2024CM22 6ZJsince November 2023CM22 6ZBsince June 2023

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

PeriodIn ElsenhamAcross the CM22 district
The 12 months to August 2026 3 of 58 (5%) 16 of 165 (10%)
The 12 months to August 2025 25 of 84 (30%) 126 of 352 (36%)

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 Elsenham?

Ofcom reports on 87 of the 88 postcodes in Elsenham. At 77 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit77 of 87
Postcodes where every home can get superfast84 of 87

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.

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

Is Elsenham at risk of flooding?

3 of the 88 postcodes in Elsenham 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 4 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 3 of 88 postcodes High: 3Medium: 1

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 Elsenham?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Elsenham. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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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 Elsenham?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Elsenham is Elsenham Rail Station, 600 m away in a straight line.

  • Elsenham Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
  • Stansted Mountfitchet Rail Station Railway station 2.5 kmCycle
  • Stansted Airport Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle

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 Elsenham?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Elsenham. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Elsenham safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 271 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Elsenham 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

  1. 12 September 2025
  2. 19 October 2025
  3. 14 November 2025
  4. 12 December 2025
  5. 17 January 2026
  6. 18 February 2026
  7. 23 March 2026
  8. 18 April 2026
  9. 27 May 2026
  10. 40 June 2026
  11. 47 July 2026
  12. 24 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences116 reports
Anti-social behaviour47 reports
Criminal damage and arson23 reports
Vehicle crime20 reports
Public order17 reports
Other theft15 reports
Burglary10 reports
Drugs9 reports

Also: shoplifting 8, other crime 4, theft from the person 1, robbery 1.

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 postcode

Source: 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 Elsenham?

District, borough or city council
Uttlesford
County council
Essex
Parliamentary constituency
North West Essex
Police force area
Essex
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Conservative)

All 88 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

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Elsenham postcodes

88 postcodes in use in Elsenham, by district:

CM22 postcode district,88 postcodes

That district is in the CM postcode area.

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Places near Elsenham

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Elsenham's £412,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Stansted Mountfitchet2.6 km, £452,500Burton End3.5 km, £485,000Takeley and Little Canfield6.1 km, £446,000Bishop's Stortford7.0 km, £415,000Newport, Uttlesford7.8 km, £450,000Thaxted9.2 km, £402,500Great Dunmow10.3 km, £413,750Hatfield Heath11.4 km, £642,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Elsenham

What is it like to live in Elsenham?
Homes sold for a typical £412,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.9% on the 12 months before. At 77 of the 87 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 88 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Peacock Surgery, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Elsenham, 600 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 Elsenham?
Elsenham is covered by postcode district CM22, across 88 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Elsenham in?
Elsenham is in the Uttlesford council area, and Essex is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Elsenham?
Elsenham is in the North West Essex parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Elsenham?
Homes in Elsenham sold for a typical £412,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 58 sales, down 2.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Elsenham?
In Elsenham, primary schools at its postcodes include Elsenham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Forest Hall School, 2.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Elsenham have a railway station?
Yes: Elsenham is 600 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Elsenham, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Elsenham?
Ofcom reports on 87 of the 88 postcodes in Elsenham. At 77 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Elsenham at risk of flooding?
3 of the 88 postcodes in Elsenham 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 4 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 Elsenham?
3 of the 88 postcodes now in use in Elsenham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 25 of the 84 homes sold in Elsenham were newly built (30%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM22 district, 36%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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