SS3 9FR Southend-on-Sea

Live postcode, introduced June 2026. Ward: Shoeburyness. Region: East of England.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

Council tax

What each band costs in Southend-on-Sea in 2026-27: Band D £2,265 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,510	£1,762	£2,013	£2,265	£2,769	£3,272	£3,775	£4,530

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band B (32% of about 990 homes).

A25%

B32%

C22%

D14%

E5%

F1%

H0%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 4.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

C AND D BARRACKS, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, grade II
COOK HOUSE TO REAR OF BLOCK CD, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, grade II
COOK HOUSE TO REAR OF BLOCK EF, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, grade II
E AND F BARRACKS, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Unit 6 New Garrison Road, Shoeburyness, Essex, SS3 9BF: up to 6 homes, permissioned (220 m)
20 (Saxon Lodge) Smith Street, Shoeburyness, Essex, SS3 9AL: up to 15 homes, permissioned (270 m)
22 (The Eagle Working Mans Club) Seaview Road, Shoeburyness, Essex, SS3 9DX: up to 8 homes, permissioned (580 m)
Land Between Barge Pier Road And Ness Road Barge Pier Road/Ness Road, Shoeburyness, Essex: up to 172 homes, permissioned (630 m)
12 Bridge Cottages (Land Adjacent) North Shoebury Road, Shoeburyness, Essex, SS3 8UN: up to 5 homes, permissioned (910 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 278 residents in 137 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

	Around this postcode	England
Median age	44	40
Children under 15	15%	17%
Aged 65 and over	16%	18%

Homes

	Around this postcode	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	71%	61%
Owned outright	29%	33%
Shared ownership	2%	1%
Social rented	7%	17%
Private rented	20%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this postcode	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	65%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	2%	6%
Retired (of adults)	17%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	3%	4%

Education and languages

	Around this postcode	England

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.