SS5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

545 of the district's 789 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 51.60827, 0.64656, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SS5

Companies House lists 945 companies with a registered office in SS5; 46 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 SS5

• Rochford
• Essex
• Eastern
• Hockley
• Hullbridge
• Hawkwell
• Brandy Hole

Roads filed under SS5

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.

• Aaron Lewis Close
• Abbey Close
• Abbey Road
• Admiral Crescent
• Alderman's Hill
• Alfreda Avenue
• Almond Avenue
• Althorpe Close
• Ambleside Gardens
• Appleyard Avenue
• Ashdene Close
• Ash Way
• Augusta Drive
• Badgers Walk
• Balmoral Gardens
• Barnwell Drive
• Bartlett View
• Bartons Avenue
• Beaches Close
• Beatrice Close
• Beckney Avenue
• Beech Road
• Beehive Lane
• Belchamps Way
• Belvedere Avenue
• Bett's Lane
• Birchdale
• Blackthorn Road
• Blenheim Close
• Blountswood Road
• Bosworth Close
• Brackendale Close
• Bramerton Road
• Brandy Avenue
• Branksome Avenue
• Briar Close
• Brinkworth Close
• Broad Close
• Broadlands Avenue
• Broadlands Road
• Broad Parade
• Broad Walk
• Broad Way
• Brookside
• Broom Road
• Buckingham Road
• Bull Lane
• Bullwood Approach
• Bullwood Hall Lane
• Bullwood Road
• Burlington Gardens
• Burnham Road
• Buttermere Gardens
• Caernarvon Close
• Caley Close
• Cavendish Road
• Cedar Drive
• Cedar Mews
• Central Avenue
• Chatsworth Gardens

Check an address in SS5

Check an address in SS5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SS5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SS5

What does an SS5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SS5 district of the SS (Southend-on-Sea) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Hockley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 545 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 SS5

• SS63.5 km
• SS44.8 km
• SS95.9 km
• SS77.0 km
• SS07.4 km
• SS117.6 km
• SS28.0 km
• SS998.1 km
• SS128.7 km
• SS19.8 km
• SS1310.1 km
• SS810.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids