Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Alec Hunter Academy is the nearest published school at 678 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 3SD
Braintree Central & Beckers Green · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 3SD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2006
- Terminated
- 1 July 2024
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 3
- Latitude
- 51.875032
- Longitude
- 0.566966
- British National Grid easting
- 576,800
- British National Grid northing
- 222,720
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
- E00108546
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 011A · E01021368
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 011 · E02004456
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 678 m
Alec Hunter Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 972 m
Beckers Green Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,583
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,112
- Shoplifting 297
- Public order 216
- Anti social behaviour 201
- Criminal damage and arson 171
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM7 3 residents
- 11,085
Age bands in CM7 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.4%
2,208 residents
1,261 residents
3,478 residents
2,815 residents
1,516 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
528 m
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
1.0 km
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
1.9 km
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sportsman
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Sportsman
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Chapel Hill
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Chapel Hill
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Charter Way
BCT · Braintree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 011A, 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
12,301 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 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.
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
2,583 published events cover 12 months, averaging 215.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,112 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.