Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Thaxted Primary School is the nearest published school at 672 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM6 2GT
Thaxted & the Eastons · Uttlesford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Postcode district
- CM6
- Postcode sector
- CM6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM6 2GT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM6
- Postcode sector
- CM6 2
- Latitude
- 51.952298
- Longitude
- 0.357219
- British National Grid easting
- 562,085
- British National Grid northing
- 230,824
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Uttlesford · E07000077
- Electoral ward
- Thaxted & the Eastons · E05014490
- Parish or community
- E04004164
- Westminster constituency
- North West Essex · E14001402
- Output area
- E00112259
- Lower layer super output area
- Uttlesford 004B · E01022093
- Middle layer super output area
- Uttlesford 004 · E02004594
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 CM6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 672 m
Thaxted Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 138
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 81
- Public order 12
- Burglary 10
- Other theft 9
- Vehicle crime 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM6 2 residents
- 6,757
Age bands in CM6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
1,269 residents
716 residents
1,547 residents
2,147 residents
1,708 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
THAXTED SURGERY
MARGARET STREET, THAXTED, DUNMOW, CM6 2QN
ODS code F81131
998 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
The Star
BCT · Thaxted
- 0.5 miles
The Star
BCT · Thaxted
- 0.6 miles
Post Office
BCT · Thaxted
- 0.6 miles
The Guildhall
BCT · Thaxted
- 0.7 miles
Church
BCT · Thaxted
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Uttlesford 004B, 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
18,824 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
138 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 81 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.