Property market
The five-year median is £165,000 from 4 recorded sales in CM7 1GU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Braintree is £330,637 in June 2026, up 2.0% year on year.
CM7 1GU
Braintree Central & Beckers Green · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 1GU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 1
- Latitude
- 51.879314
- Longitude
- 0.552040
- British National Grid easting
- 575,756
- British National Grid northing
- 223,160
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
- E00108533
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 009D · E01021365
- 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 CM7
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Old Fire Station, Flat 4, Swan Side, Braintree, CM7 1GU | 15 August 2025 | £150,000 |
| The Old Fire Station, Flat 2, Swan Side, Braintree, CM7 1GU | 28 May 2025 | £175,000 |
| The Old Fire Station, Flat 1, Swan Side, Braintree, CM7 1GU | 25 April 2025 | £220,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 475 m
St Francis Catholic Primary School, Braintree
Voluntary aided school
- 833 m
John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 932 m
St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,569
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,236
- Anti social behaviour 215
- Public order 191
- Shoplifting 180
- Criminal damage and arson 175
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM7 1 residents
- 9,786
Age bands in CM7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.5%
1,789 residents
1,008 residents
2,785 residents
2,434 residents
1,820 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
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
154 m
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
605 m
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
757 m
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
1.4 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Blyth's Meadow
BCT · Braintree Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Panfield Lane
BCT · Braintree Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Tesco West Store
BCT · Braintree Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Bus Interchange
BCS · Braintree Town Centre
- 0.2 miles
Bus Interchange
BCT · Braintree Town Centre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 009D, 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
11,865 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Francis Catholic Primary School, Braintree is the nearest published school at 475 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,569 published events cover 12 months, averaging 214.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,236 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.