Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 7 secondary schools. Baddow Hall Infant School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM2 7QZ
Great Baddow East · Chelmsford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Great Baddow East
- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford
- Postcode district
- CM2
- Postcode sector
- CM2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM2 7QZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM2
- Postcode sector
- CM2 7
- Latitude
- 51.714981
- Longitude
- 0.507708
- British National Grid easting
- 573,334
- British National Grid northing
- 204,781
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Chelmsford · E07000070
- Electoral ward
- Great Baddow East · E05015471
- Parish or community
- E04013170
- Westminster constituency
- Chelmsford · E14001159
- Output area
- E00109521
- Lower layer super output area
- Chelmsford 013C · E01021561
- Middle layer super output area
- Chelmsford 013 · E02004497
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CM2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 7
- 0 m
Baddow Hall Infant School
Community school
- 0 m
Baddow Hall Junior School
Community school
- 582 m
Octavia House Schools, Essex
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 695
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 301
- Criminal damage and arson 65
- Vehicle crime 55
- Anti social behaviour 54
- Shoplifting 49
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM2 7 residents
- 8,398
Age bands in CM2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.4%
1,375 residents
840 residents
2,068 residents
2,295 residents
2,238 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
BADDOW VILLAGE SURGERY
LONGMEAD AVENUE, GREAT BADDOW, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7EZ
ODS code F81114
556 m
SUTHERLAND LODGE SURGERY
115 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 7PY
ODS code F81117
2.1 km
CHELMER VILLAGE SURGERY
ASHTON PLACE, CHELMER VILLAGE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 6ST
ODS code F81665
2.2 km
BEAUCHAMP HOUSE
37 BADDOW ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM2 0DB
ODS code F81083
2.7 km
RIVERMEAD GATE MED.CTR.
123 RECTORY LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1TR
ODS code F81071
3.8 km
WHITLEY HOUSE SURGERY
CROMPTON BLD, WRITTLE ROAD, CHELMSFORD, CM1 3RW
ODS code F81057
3.8 km
NORTH CHELMSFORD NHS HCC
2 WHITE HART LANE, CHELMSFORD, CM2 5EF
ODS code Y02611
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
The Bringey
BCT · Great Baddow
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Great Baddow
- 0.2 miles
West Hanningfield Road
BCT · Great Baddow
- 0.2 miles
Mercia Close
BCT · Great Baddow
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Great Baddow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chelmsford 013C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,517 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
695 published events cover 12 months, averaging 57.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 301 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.