Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lyons Hall School is the nearest published school at 265 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 6TD
Bocking Blackwater · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bocking Blackwater
- Local authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 6TD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 6
- Latitude
- 51.883710
- Longitude
- 0.576020
- British National Grid easting
- 577,389
- British National Grid northing
- 223,707
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Bocking Blackwater · E05010365
- Parish or community
- E43000267
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00108446
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 007C · E01021352
- 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
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 265 m
Lyons Hall School
Academy converter
- 666 m
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 666 m
Great Bradfords Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,306
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 615
- Public order 106
- Other theft 104
- Anti social behaviour 102
- Criminal damage and arson 89
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
1.3 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
1.6 km
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
1.6 km
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Fisher Way
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Fisher Way
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Kingsmead Park
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Kingsmead Park
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Anson Way
BCT · Braintree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 007C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,241 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
1,306 published events cover 12 months, averaging 108.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 615 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.