South Ockendon

What is it like to live in South Ockendon?

Homes sold for a typical £345,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 331 of the 364 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 377 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 6 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Ockendon, 1.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in South Ockendon?

Homes in South Ockendon sold for a typical £345,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 184 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £345,000 from 244 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £550,000 17 sales
• Semi-detached £400,000 38 sales
• Terraced £342,000 86 sales
• Flat or maisonette £220,000 43 sales

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

Across the whole RM15 district, South Ockendon's main postcode district: a typical £360,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in South Ockendon: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in South Ockendon?

16 of the 377 postcodes now in use in South Ockendon came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 244 homes sold in South Ockendon were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the RM15 district, 0%.

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in South Ockendon?

Ofcom reports on 364 of the 377 postcodes in South Ockendon. At 331 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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is South Ockendon at risk of flooding?

None of the 377 postcodes in South Ockendon is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in South Ockendon?

The open schools at the postcodes in South Ockendon. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from South Ockendon?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in South Ockendon is Ockendon Rail Station, 1.1 km away in a straight line.

• Ockendon Rail Station Railway station 1.1 kmWalk
• Chafford Hundred Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
• Grays Rail Station Railway station 4.6 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in South Ockendon?

The GP practices at the postcodes in South Ockendon. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Sancta Maria Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01708 853114 550 mWalk
• Dr Yasin Sa Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2024 · Phone 01708 853113 550 mWalk
• Derry Court Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01708 855009 550 mWalk
• Peartree Surgery & West Horndon Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01708 852318 1.5 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is South Ockendon safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,964 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in South Ockendon 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 53, other crime 35, possession of weapons 24, robbery 23, bicycle theft 16, theft from the person 10.

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.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs South Ockendon?

Council

Thurrock

Parliamentary constituency

Thurrock

Police force area

Essex

Region

East of England

Country

England

MP

Jen Craft (Labour)

All 377 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.