SS3
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Shoeburyness, North Shoebury and Cambridge Town, in Southend-on-Sea and Rochford.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an SS3 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in SS3 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How SS3 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is SS3 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in SS3 at a rate of 76.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 91.5 per 1,000 people across the SS postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 224 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in SS3.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,056), anti-social behaviour (328) and other crime (316).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in SS3 was 65.5 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in SS3, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so SS3 has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in SS3
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochford 010A | 1,735 | 61.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.3% |
| Rochford 010B | 1,461 | 22.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 55.1% |
| Rochford 010C | 1,572 | 57.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Rochford 010D | 1,325 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 79.1% |
| Rochford 010E | 1,836 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.2% |
| Southend-on-Sea 013A | 2,481 | 86.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.0% |
| Southend-on-Sea 013B | 1,895 | 102.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.9% |
| Southend-on-Sea 013C | 1,256 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Southend-on-Sea 013D | 1,380 | 76.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Southend-on-Sea 013E | 1,522 | 104.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Southend-on-Sea 013F | 1,372 | 40.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Southend-on-Sea 013G | 1,768 | 138.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Southend-on-Sea 017A | 1,307 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Southend-on-Sea 017B | 1,440 | 83.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Southend-on-Sea 017C | 1,410 | 81.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Southend-on-Sea 017D | 1,658 | 251.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.0% |
| Southend-on-Sea 017E | 1,408 | 48.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Southend-on-Sea 017F | 1,360 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Southend-on-Sea 017G | 1,539 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Mr Bayo AlabaIndependentMP for Southend East and Rochford
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in SS33
Postcode sectors in SS33
Councils SS3 covers2
Towns in SS31
Postcode districts next to SS33
More in the SS postcode area2
SS3 in brief
SS3 is a postcode district covering Shoeburyness, North Shoebury and Cambridge Town, in Southend-on-Sea and Rochford.
About 29,503 people lived in SS3 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £350,000 in 2025 across 352 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in SS3 was £350,000 in 2025.
SS3 had 28,925 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in SS3 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In SS3, 95.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.