Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lyons Hall School is the nearest published school at 535 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 6RA
Braintree Central & Beckers Green · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 6RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 6
- Latitude
- 51.880161
- Longitude
- 0.575062
- British National Grid easting
- 577,337
- British National Grid northing
- 223,310
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
- E00108553
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 012D · E01021369
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 012 · E02004457
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
- 535 m
Lyons Hall School
Academy converter
- 773 m
Beckers Green Primary School
Academy converter
- 814 m
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,887
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 792
- Shoplifting 234
- Public order 168
- Anti social behaviour 143
- Other theft 128
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.
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
1.1 km
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
1.4 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
2.3 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 North
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Bartram Avenue North
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Wheatley Avenue
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Hay Lane
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Kings Park Village
BCT · Braintree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 012D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,789 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,887 published events cover 12 months, averaging 157.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 792 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.