Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Alec Hunter Academy is the nearest published school at 802 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM6 3AS
Braintree Central & Beckers Green · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM6 3AS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM6
- Postcode sector
- CM6 3
- Latitude
- 51.876450
- Longitude
- 0.566263
- British National Grid easting
- 576,746
- British National Grid northing
- 222,876
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Braintree Central & Beckers Green · E05010368
- Parish or community
- E43000267
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00173957
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 009F · E01033459
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 009 · E02004454
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
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 802 m
Alec Hunter Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 990 m
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 990 m
Great Bradfords Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,710
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,175
- Shoplifting 297
- Public order 227
- Anti social behaviour 209
- Criminal damage and arson 183
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM6 3 residents
- 8,553
Age bands in CM6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
1,600 residents
990 residents
1,754 residents
2,268 residents
1,425 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
4
within 5 km
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
431 m
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
929 m
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
1.8 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
1.8 km
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sportsman
BCT · Braintree
- 0.0 miles
Sportsman
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Chapel Hill
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Chapel Hill
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Four Seasons
BCT · Braintree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 009F, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,828 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,710 published events cover 12 months, averaging 225.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,175 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.