Property market
The five-year median is £250,000 from 1 recorded sale in CM7 5JH. 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 5JH
Three Fields · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 5JH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 5
- Latitude
- 51.930958
- Longitude
- 0.533034
- British National Grid easting
- 574,248
- British National Grid northing
- 228,857
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Three Fields · E05010385
- Parish or community
- E04003935
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00108780
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 005D · E01021413
- 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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bramble Cottage, Beazley End, Braintree, CM7 5JH | 5 November 2021 | £250,000 |
| 2, Beazley End, Braintree, CM7 5JH | 11 September 2017 | £385,000 |
| Lime Tree Cottage, Beazley End, Braintree, CM7 5JH | 15 August 2017 | £800,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.1 km
Shalford Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.4 km
Bocking Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
St Margaret's Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Other theft 2
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 53
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 3.8
- CM7 5 residents
- 9,555
29 female, 24 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 0.6% 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+
- 88.2%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 88.2%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 88.2%
- Gigabit-capable
- 88.2%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 88.2%
- 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
4.7 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
- 1.1 miles
Blackmore End Road
BCT · Blackmore End
- 1.1 miles
Blackmore End Road
BCT · Blackmore End
- 1.2 miles
Recycling Centre
BCT · Shalford
- 1.2 miles
Recycling Centre
BCT · Shalford
- 1.2 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Shalford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 005D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,327 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 1
- 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
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Shalford Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.