Southminster

Southminster is covered by postcode district CM0. It is in the Maldon council area, Essex.

Typical price £347,500 Homes sold in Southminster, last 12 months. ▲ 8.6% on the year before Gigabit broadband 100 of 106 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 8 of 106 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 36 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Southminster, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Southminster, by flood risk Of the 106 postcodes in Southminster that ONS places, 6 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at low risk at worst and 98 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Southminster. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. CM0 7AA: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AB: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AD: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AE: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AF: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AH: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AJ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AL: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AN: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AQ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AS: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AX: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AY: not on the flood risk listCM0 7AZ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BA: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BF: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BN: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BP: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BS: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BT: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BU: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BW: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BX: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BY: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BZ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DA: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DE: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DF: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DG: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DH: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DJ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DL: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DN: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DQ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7DW: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EB: not on the flood risk listCM0 7ED: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EE: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EF: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EG: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EH: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EJ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EL: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EP: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EQ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7ER: not on the flood risk listCM0 7ES: not on the flood risk listCM0 7ET: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EU: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EW: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EX: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EY: not on the flood risk listCM0 7EZ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FB: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FE: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FF: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FH: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FJ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FL: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FN: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FP: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FQ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FT: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FU: not on the flood risk listCM0 7FW: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GA: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GD: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GF: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GG: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GH: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GP: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GS: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GW: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GX: not on the flood risk listCM0 7GZ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7HA: not on the flood risk listCM0 7HB: not on the flood risk listCM0 7HD: not on the flood risk listCM0 7HE: not on the flood risk listCM0 7HF: not on the flood risk listCM0 7HG: not on the flood risk listCM0 7HQ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7JA: not on the flood risk listCM0 7JP: not on the flood risk listCM0 7JS: not on the flood risk listCM0 7JT: not on the flood risk listCM0 7JW: not on the flood risk listCM0 7JX: not on the flood risk listCM0 7RD: not on the flood risk listCM0 7RE: not on the flood risk listCM0 7RQ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7RX: not on the flood risk listCM0 7RY: not on the flood risk listCM0 7RZ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7TY: not on the flood risk listCM0 7TZ: not on the flood risk listCM0 7XU: not on the flood risk listCM0 7YG: not on the flood risk listCM0 7BB: low flood risk at worstCM0 7XT: low flood risk at worstCM0 7AP: high flood riskCM0 7AW: high flood riskCM0 7BD: high flood riskCM0 7UY: high flood riskCM0 7XW: high flood riskCM0 7YF: high flood risk Southminster Map of every postcode in Southminster, by flood risk Of the 106 postcodes in Southminster that ONS places, 6 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at low risk at worst and 98 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Southminster. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Southminster
  • A home or business at high risk: 6
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 2
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 98

Of the 106 postcodes in Southminster that ONS places, 6 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at low risk at worst and 98 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 51.6618, longitude 0.8252. 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.

CM0 7UY12 at high riskCM0 7AP9 at high riskCM0 7YF5 at high riskCM0 7BD3 at high riskCM0 7XW2 at high riskCM0 7AW1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Southminster?

Homes sold for a typical £347,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 8.6% on the 12 months before. At 100 of the 106 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 36 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 8 of its 106 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Southminster, 700 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 Southminster?

Homes in Southminster sold for a typical £347,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 46 sales, up 8.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£347,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£320,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 8.6% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £427,500 14 sales
  • Semi-detached £334,000 22 sales
  • Terraced £312,000 5 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £140,000 5 sales

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

Across the whole CM0 district, Southminster's main postcode district: a typical £350,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Southminster: 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 Southminster?

4 of the 106 postcodes now in use in Southminster came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 76 homes sold in Southminster were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM0 district, 8%.

The newest postcodes

CM0 7AXsince October 2025CM0 7YGsince December 2020CM0 7YFsince August 2020CM0 7XWsince January 2020

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 SouthminsterAcross the CM0 district
The 12 months to August 2026 2 of 46 (4%) 11 of 221 (5%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 76 (0%) 28 of 338 (8%)

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 Southminster?

Ofcom reports on 106 of the 106 postcodes in Southminster. At 100 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit100 of 106
Postcodes where every home can get superfast104 of 106

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 checker

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

Is Southminster at risk of flooding?

8 of the 106 postcodes in Southminster 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 36 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 8 of 106 postcodes High: 32Medium: 4Low: 15

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 Southminster?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Southminster. 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

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 Southminster?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Southminster is Southminster Rail Station, 700 m away in a straight line.

  • Southminster Rail Station Railway station 700 mWalk
  • Burnham-on-Crouch Rail Station Railway station 3.2 kmCycle
  • Althorne Rail Station Railway station 5.2 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 Southminster?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Southminster. 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 Southminster safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 265 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Southminster 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. 18 September 2025
  2. 26 October 2025
  3. 15 November 2025
  4. 18 December 2025
  5. 17 January 2026
  6. 8 February 2026
  7. 26 March 2026
  8. 14 April 2026
  9. 23 May 2026
  10. 22 June 2026
  11. 35 July 2026
  12. 43 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences153 reports
Anti-social behaviour25 reports
Criminal damage and arson23 reports
Public order16 reports
Other theft16 reports
Vehicle crime9 reports
Other crime8 reports
Drugs6 reports

Also: robbery 3, burglary 2, shoplifting 2, bicycle theft 1, 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 Southminster?

District, borough or city council
Maldon
County council
Essex
Parliamentary constituency
Maldon
Police force area
Essex
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Sir John Whittingdale (Conservative)

All 106 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

Moving to Southminster

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

Who to tell when moving house: the full list Moving house checklist

Southminster postcodes

106 postcodes in use in Southminster, by district:

CM0 postcode district,106 postcodes

That district is 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 Southminster

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Southminster's £347,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Burnham-on-Crouch3.4 km, £335,000Mayland5.0 km, £397,500Tollesbury10.8 km, £332,000Ashingdon11.3 km, £405,000Rochford12.0 km, £351,250Great Wakering12.1 km, £362,500Maldon12.6 km, £350,000Hockley and Hawkwell13.3 km, £450,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Southminster

What is it like to live in Southminster?
Homes sold for a typical £347,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 8.6% on the 12 months before. At 100 of the 106 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 36 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 8 of its 106 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Southminster, 700 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 Southminster?
Southminster is covered by postcode district CM0, across 106 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Southminster in?
Southminster is in the Maldon council area, and Essex is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Southminster?
Southminster is in the Maldon parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Sir John Whittingdale (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Southminster?
Homes in Southminster sold for a typical £347,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 46 sales, up 8.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Southminster?
In Southminster, primary schools at its postcodes include St Leonard's Church of England Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Ormiston Rivers Academy, 2.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Southminster have a railway station?
Yes: Southminster is 700 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Southminster, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Southminster?
Ofcom reports on 106 of the 106 postcodes in Southminster. At 100 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Southminster at risk of flooding?
8 of the 106 postcodes in Southminster 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 36 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 Southminster?
4 of the 106 postcodes now in use in Southminster came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 76 homes sold in Southminster were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM0 district, 8%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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