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CM5 crime rate and statistics
The CM5 postcode district, in the CM (Chelmsford) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 661 street-crime records for CM5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 56.2 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 89.7 for Essex Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
661
Latest month (August 2026)
74
Year-on-year
-3.5%
Month-by-month totals
740
49
Sep
47
Oct
39
Nov
52
Dec
43
Jan
54
Feb
50
Mar
59
Apr
68
May
61
Jun
65
Jul
74
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
49
October 2025
47
November 2025
39
December 2025
52
January 2026
43
February 2026
54
March 2026
50
April 2026
59
May 2026
68
June 2026
61
July 2026
65
August 2026
74
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
CM5
56.2
Essex Police
89.7
661 records and 11,772 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of CM5 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Records by part of CM5: the south 281, the south-west 176, the centre 61, the south-east 44, the north-east 34, the north-west 28, the north 20, the east 11, the west 10.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of CM5's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CM5's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of CM5 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CM5 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for CM5 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
929
2022
905
2023
834
2024
683
2025
644
2026 (part year)
474
Is CM5 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CM5 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 55 records a month. The busiest month was August 2026, with 74.
Records here changed by -3.5% on the 12 months before, against +5.8% across the Essex Police area, the main force here with 98.6% of CM5's records, over the same months. With 661 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 39.3% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in CM5 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 11,772 Census 2021 residents of CM5.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 23.4% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
0%3
7%4
70%5
0%6
0%7
0%8
10%9
13%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
About CM5 beyond crime
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
House prices
Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£505,000 (73)
2025
£483,000 (142)
2024
£535,000 (123)
2023
£471,500 (135)
2022
£502,500 (168)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£590,000 (21)
£510,000 (27)
£492,500 (14)
£280,000 (11)
2025
£767,500 (42)
£500,000 (55)
£440,000 (20)
£245,000 (25)
2024
£785,000 (45)
£505,000 (53)
£400,000 (17)
£258,750 (8)
2023
£785,000 (38)
£485,000 (47)
£405,000 (24)
£235,000 (26)
2022
£725,000 (49)
£495,000 (72)
£442,500 (26)
£265,000 (21)
Schools and colleges
6 open establishments with a postcode in CM5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.
Highest band
Postcodes
High
7
Medium
6
Low
16
Very low
0
Broadband
Share of the 432 postcodes in CM5 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
67.6%
94.9%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
71.5%
97.7%
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