Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 5 secondary schools. Forest Hall School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM24 8UG
Stansted South & Birchanger · Uttlesford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Postcode district
- CM24
- Postcode sector
- CM24 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM24 8UG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM24
- Postcode sector
- CM24 8
- Latitude
- 51.901730
- Longitude
- 0.218138
- British National Grid easting
- 552,700
- British National Grid northing
- 224,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Uttlesford · E07000077
- Electoral ward
- Stansted South & Birchanger · E05009927
- Parish or community
- E04012219
- Westminster constituency
- North West Essex · E14001402
- Output area
- E00112222
- Lower layer super output area
- Uttlesford 006A · E01022086
- Middle layer super output area
- Uttlesford 006 · E02004596
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 CM24
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.1 km
Forest Hall School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Magna Carta Primary Academy
Free schools
- 1.5 km
St Mary's CofE Foundation Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 372
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 153
- Criminal damage and arson 48
- Anti social behaviour 41
- Public order 32
- Other theft 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM24 8 residents
- 8,696
Age bands in CM24 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.1%
1,702 residents
779 residents
2,505 residents
2,257 residents
1,387 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
PEACOCK SURGERY
1ST FLOOR CASTLE MALTINGS, LOWER STREET, STANSTED, STANSTED, CM24 8XG
ODS code F81053
1.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
School
BCT · Stansted Mountfitchet
- 0.7 miles
School
BCT · Stansted Mountfitchet
- 0.7 miles
Old Mill Farm
BCT · Elsenham
- 0.7 miles
Old Mill Farm
BCT · Elsenham
- 0.7 miles
St Mary's Drive
BCT · Stansted Mountfitchet
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Uttlesford 006A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,095 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
372 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 153 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.