Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lyons Hall School is the nearest published school at 700 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 6DR
Braintree Central & Beckers Green · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 6DR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 6
- Latitude
- 51.879044
- Longitude
- 0.573501
- British National Grid easting
- 577,234
- British National Grid northing
- 223,182
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Braintree Central & Beckers Green · E05010368
- Parish or community
- E43000267
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00108543
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 011B · E01021370
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 011 · E02004456
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
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 700 m
Lyons Hall School
Academy converter
- 742 m
Beckers Green Primary School
Academy converter
- 770 m
Alec Hunter Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,209
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 921
- Shoplifting 268
- Public order 196
- Anti social behaviour 179
- Other theft 144
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
947 m
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
1.3 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
1.8 km
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
2.2 km
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bartram Avenue South
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Bartram Avenue South
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Hay Lane
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Wheatley Avenue
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Bartram Avenue North
BCT · Braintree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 011B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,172 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
2,209 published events cover 12 months, averaging 184.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 921 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.