Property market
The five-year median is £425,000 from 2 recorded sales in CM7 5YH. 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 5YH
Bocking North · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 5YH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 5
- Latitude
- 51.896574
- Longitude
- 0.541099
- British National Grid easting
- 574,936
- British National Grid northing
- 225,053
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
- E00173988
- 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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Halter Drive, Braintree, CM7 5YH | 31 January 2025 | £420,000 |
| 2, Halter Drive, Braintree, CM7 5YH | 20 December 2024 | £430,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 947 m
The Edith Borthwick School
Community special school
- 1.2 km
Tabor Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 735
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 361
- Other theft 67
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Criminal damage and arson 48
- Public order 46
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.
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 straight-line
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
1.2 km
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
2.0 km
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
2.1 km
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Towerlands Leisure Centre
BCT · Bocking
- 0.2 miles
Towerlands Leisure Centre
BCT · Bocking
- 0.3 miles
Churchill Road
BCT · Bocking
- 0.3 miles
Churchill Road
BCT · Bocking
- 0.4 miles
Oakley Road
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
Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Edith Borthwick School is the nearest published school at 947 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
735 published events cover 12 months, averaging 61.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 361 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.