SS16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

658 of the district's 876 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.56255, 0.45202, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SS16

Companies House lists 1,350 companies with a registered office in SS16; 30 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for SS16

• Eastern
• Basildon
• Essex
• Thurrock

Roads filed under SS16

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Acorn Place
• Albyns
• Alexander Road
• Alnwick Close
• Amersham Avenue
• Angel Close
• Ansell Street
• Appleby Drive
• Arcadian Path
• Ardleigh
• Armath Place
• Arnold Avenue
• Avondale Road
• Aylesbury Drive
• Bardfield
• Barley Close
• Barnard Close
• Barons Way
• Beatrice Path
• Bebington Drive
• Bebington Link
• Beech Hall Path
• Beeleigh Avenue
• Beldowes
• Bellfield
• Bells Hill Road
• Berberis Close
• Berdens
• Berry Close
• Berry Lane
• Bessemer Close
• Blackheath Chase
• Blackthorn Court
• Bon Accord Path
• Botelers
• Bowfell Drive
• Breams Field
• Brickfield Close
• Brickfield Road
• Bridge Path
• Britten Close
• Bull Close
• Burdett Close
• Burr Close
• Butlers Grove
• Byfletts
• Byron Path
• Cambridge Close
• Carte Place
• Cashmere Way
• Castle Mayne Farm Path
• Central Avenue
• Chaseway
• Cherrydown East
• Cherrydown West
• Chestnut Court
• Chestnut Road
• Chorley Close
• Claremont Drive
• Clayhill Lane

Check an address in SS16

Check an address in SS16

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SS16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SS16

What does an SS16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SS16 district of the SS (Southend-on-Sea) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Basildon. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 658 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest SS16

• SS142.2 km
• SS152.3 km
• SS134.3 km
• SS174.6 km
• SS126.7 km
• CM116.8 km
• CM127.8 km
• SS118.5 km
• SS78.7 km
• CM139.8 km
• SS810.5 km
• RM1610.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids