SS2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

711 of the district's 1,002 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 51.55086, 0.71669, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SS2

Companies House lists 3,243 companies with a registered office in SS2; 1,719 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 SS2

• Eastern
• Southend-on-Sea
• Rochford
• Essex

Roads filed under SS2

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.

• Alton Gardens
• Apollo Drive
• Appletree Close
• Aragon Close
• Archer Avenue
• Archer Close
• Arlington Road
• Ashurst Avenue
• Athena Close
• Audleys Close
• Aviation Way
• Avro Road
• Baxter Avenue
• Beaufort Street
• Beechmont Gardens
• Beeleigh Close
• Bellevue Mews
• Bellevue Road
• Bell Walk
• Bentalls Close
• Betjeman Mews
• Beverley Gardens
• Bircham Road
• Biscay
• Blatches Chase
• Boscombe Road
• Boston Avenue
• Bournemouth Park Road
• Boyden Close
• Branksome Road
• Bristol Road
• Britannia Close
• Bronte Mews
• Browning Avenue
• Burr Hill Chase
• Byrne Drive
• Byron Avenue
• Canterbury Avenue
• Carnarvon Close
• Carnarvon Road
• Caroline's Close
• Castleton Road
• Cedar Close
• Central Avenue
• Chaingate Avenue
• Chandlers Way
• Chelmsford Avenue
• Chestnut Grove
• Christchurch Mews
• Christchurch Road
• Claters Close
• Cluny Square
• Cokefield Avenue
• Colchester Close
• Colchester Road
• Cole Avenue
• Coleman Street
• Comet Way
• Concorde Road
• Coniston

Check an address in SS2

Check an address in SS2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SS2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SS2

What does an SS2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SS2 district of the SS (Southend-on-Sea) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Southend-on-Sea. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 711 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 SS2

• SS990.4 km
• SS11.8 km
• SS02.1 km
• SS94.5 km
• SS44.7 km
• SS35.1 km
• SS58.0 km
• SS68.7 km
• SS89.4 km
• SS79.7 km
• SS1114.4 km
• SS1314.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids