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

Map of every postcode in Sawbridgeworth, by flood risk 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. Places named: Sawbridgeworth. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. 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riskCM21 9JX: high flood riskCM21 9JY: high flood riskCM21 9LR: high flood riskCM21 9PL: high flood risk Sawbridgeworth Map of every postcode in Sawbridgeworth, by flood risk 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. Places named: Sawbridgeworth. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Sawbridgeworth
  • 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

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.

£425,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£457,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 6.9% on the 12 months before
  • 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

PeriodIn SawbridgeworthAcross 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.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit163 of 258
Postcodes where every home can get superfast239 of 258

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 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.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 21 of 267 postcodes High: 48Medium: 22Low: 336Very low: 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 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.

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

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.

  • Gardens and Jacobs Medical Partnership Phone 07595 261572 1.4 kmCycle
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 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

  1. 62 September 2025
  2. 27 October 2025
  3. 49 November 2025
  4. 61 December 2025
  5. 33 January 2026
  6. 29 February 2026
  7. 37 March 2026
  8. 55 April 2026
  9. 57 May 2026
  10. 53 June 2026
  11. 52 July 2026
  12. 69 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences239 reports
Anti-social behaviour116 reports
Vehicle crime57 reports
Public order37 reports
Burglary28 reports
Other theft28 reports
Criminal damage and arson27 reports
Other crime18 reports

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 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 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.

Sawbridgeworth postcodes

267 postcodes in use in Sawbridgeworth, by district:

Those districts are all in the CM postcode area.

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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.

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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.

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