Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth is covered by postcode districts CM21 and CM22. It is mostly in the East Hertfordshire council area: 223 of its 267 postcodes. The others are in Epping Forest. 223 are in Hertfordshire and 44 in Essex.
Every postcode in Sawbridgeworth, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 10
- At medium risk at worst: 4
- At low risk at worst: 7
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 246
Of the 267 postcodes in Sawbridgeworth that ONS places, 10 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 246 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. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.8117, longitude 0.1488. 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.
What is it like to live in Sawbridgeworth?
Homes sold for a typical £425,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 6.9% on the 12 months before. At 163 of the 258 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 70 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 21 of its 267 postcodes. It has 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Sawbridgeworth, 850 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 Sawbridgeworth?
Homes in Sawbridgeworth sold for a typical £425,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 122 sales, down 6.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £647,500 30 sales
- Semi-detached £487,500 34 sales
- Terraced £330,000 27 sales
- Flat or maisonette £215,000 31 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CM21 district, Sawbridgeworth's main postcode district: a typical £428,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Sawbridgeworth: 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 Sawbridgeworth?
28 of the 267 postcodes now in use in Sawbridgeworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 11 of the 199 homes sold in Sawbridgeworth were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM21 district, 7%.
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 Sawbridgeworth | Across the CM21 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 122 (0%) | 0 of 128 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 11 of 199 (6%) | 16 of 219 (7%) |
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 Sawbridgeworth?
Ofcom reports on 258 of the 267 postcodes in Sawbridgeworth. At 163 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 Sawbridgeworth at risk of flooding?
21 of the 267 postcodes in Sawbridgeworth 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 70 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 Sawbridgeworth?
The open schools at the postcodes in Sawbridgeworth. 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
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 Sawbridgeworth?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Sawbridgeworth is Sawbridgeworth Rail Station, 850 m away in a straight line.
- Sawbridgeworth Rail Station Railway station 850 mWalk
- Harlow Mill Rail Station Railway station 2.6 kmCycle
- Harlow Town Rail Station Railway station 5.0 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 Sawbridgeworth?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Sawbridgeworth. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Central Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01279 603180 100 mWalk
- Gardens and Jacobs Medical Partnership Phone 07595 261572 1.4 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Sawbridgeworth safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 584 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Sawbridgeworth 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
- 62 September 2025
- 27 October 2025
- 49 November 2025
- 61 December 2025
- 33 January 2026
- 29 February 2026
- 37 March 2026
- 55 April 2026
- 57 May 2026
- 53 June 2026
- 52 July 2026
- 69 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 11, shoplifting 10, bicycle theft 7, theft from the person 3, robbery 2, possession of weapons 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 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 Sawbridgeworth?
- Councils
- East Hertfordshire (223) and Epping Forest (44)
- County councils
- Hertfordshire (223) and Essex (44)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Hertford and Stortford (223) and Harlow (44)
- Police force areas
- Hertfordshire (223) and Essex (44)
- 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 Sawbridgeworth
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Sawbridgeworth 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 Sawbridgeworth
- 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 Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Sawbridgeworth postcodes
267 postcodes in use in Sawbridgeworth, by district:
Those districts are all in the CM postcode area.
Check a Sawbridgeworth postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
Do not know the postcode? What is my postcode?
Places near Sawbridgeworth
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Sawbridgeworth's £425,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Sawbridgeworth
- What is it like to live in Sawbridgeworth?
- Homes sold for a typical £425,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 6.9% on the 12 months before. At 163 of the 258 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 70 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 21 of its 267 postcodes. It has 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Sawbridgeworth, 850 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 Sawbridgeworth?
- Sawbridgeworth is covered by postcode districts CM21 and CM22, across 267 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Sawbridgeworth?
- Homes in Sawbridgeworth sold for a typical £425,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 122 sales, down 6.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Sawbridgeworth?
- In Sawbridgeworth, primary schools at its postcodes include Fawbert and Barnard Infants' School, Mandeville Primary School and Reedings Junior School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Leventhorpe. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Sawbridgeworth have a railway station?
- Yes: Sawbridgeworth is 850 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Sawbridgeworth, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Sawbridgeworth?
- Ofcom reports on 258 of the 267 postcodes in Sawbridgeworth. At 163 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Sawbridgeworth at risk of flooding?
- 21 of the 267 postcodes in Sawbridgeworth 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 70 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 Sawbridgeworth?
- 28 of the 267 postcodes now in use in Sawbridgeworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 11 of the 199 homes sold in Sawbridgeworth were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM21 district, 7%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
Something wrong on this page? Report an error and we will check it against the source.