Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Bocking Primary School is the nearest published school at 749 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 5NG
Bocking North · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bocking North
- Local authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 5NG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 5
- Latitude
- 51.906352
- Longitude
- 0.565845
- British National Grid easting
- 576,600
- British National Grid northing
- 226,200
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
- E00108466
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 007D · E01021355
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 749 m
Bocking Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Great Bradfords Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 149
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 46
- Other theft 17
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Shoplifting 15
- Anti social behaviour 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM7 5 residents
- 9,555
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
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 straight-line
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
1.8 km
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
3.0 km
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
3.3 km
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Lillies
BCT · Bocking
- 0.1 miles
The Lillies
BCT · Bocking
- 0.2 miles
Windmill Gardens
BCT · Bocking
- 0.2 miles
Windmill Gardens
BCT · Bocking
- 0.3 miles
Broad Road Nursery
BCT · Bocking
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 007D, 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
16,692 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
149 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 46 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.