Property market
The five-year median is £415,000 from 1 recorded sale in CM7 5EF. 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 5EF
Rayne · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 5EF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 5
- Latitude
- 51.914926
- Longitude
- 0.448777
- British National Grid easting
- 568,516
- British National Grid northing
- 226,876
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Rayne · E05010380
- Parish or community
- E04012934
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00108722
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 005A · E01021404
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 005 · E02004450
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Pollards Villas, Bardfield Saling, Braintree, CM7 5EF | 11 March 2026 | £415,000 |
| 9, Pollards Villas, Bardfield Saling, Braintree, CM7 5EF | 10 July 2014 | £247,500 |
| Jazmine Cottage, 10, Pollards Villas, Bardfield Saling, Braintree, CM7 5EF | 14 June 2001 | £179,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.5 km
Stebbing Primary School
Community school
- 3.7 km
Great Bardfield Primary School
Community school
- 4.0 km
Shalford Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 32
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- CM7 5 residents
- 9,555
18 female, 14 male
Age bands in CM7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.3%
1,510 residents
916 residents
2,151 residents
2,673 residents
2,206 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM7 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Glebe Road
BCT · Great Saling
- 1.0 miles
Glebe Road
BCT · Great Saling
- 1.2 miles
Church
BCT · Great Saling
- 1.2 miles
Church
BCT · Great Saling
- 1.3 miles
The White Hart
BCT · Great Saling
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 005A, 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
19,580 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Stebbing Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.