Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Bocking Primary School is the nearest published school at 461 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 5LR
Bocking North · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 5LR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 5
- Latitude
- 51.899567
- Longitude
- 0.555311
- British National Grid easting
- 575,902
- British National Grid northing
- 225,420
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Bocking North · E05010366
- Parish or community
- E43000267
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00108469
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 007E · E01021356
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 007 · E02004452
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Dorewards Chase, Braintree, CM7 5LR | 4 January 2017 | £695,000 |
| 3, Dorewards Chase, Braintree, CM7 5LR | 5 July 2005 | £279,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 461 m
Bocking Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
The Edith Borthwick School
Community special school
- 1.7 km
John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 574
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 273
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Other theft 50
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Public order 35
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- CM7 5 residents
- 9,555
2 female, 1 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% 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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
921 m
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
2.2 km
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
2.5 km
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
2.5 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
- 0.1 miles
Alms Houses
BCT · Bocking
- 0.1 miles
Alms Houses
BCT · Bocking
- 0.1 miles
Deanery Corner
BCT · Bocking
- 0.1 miles
Deanery Corner
BCT · Bocking
- 0.2 miles
Rose & Crown
BCT · Bocking
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 007E, 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
16,882 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
574 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 273 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.