Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. John Ray Junior School is the nearest published school at 848 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 7AY
Braintree South · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Braintree South
- Local authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 7AY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 7
- Latitude
- 51.871871
- Longitude
- 0.562254
- British National Grid easting
- 576,488
- British National Grid northing
- 222,357
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Braintree South · E05010369
- Parish or community
- E43000267
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00173967
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 011G · E01035156
- 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
- 20
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 848 m
John Ray Junior School
Academy sponsor led
- 849 m
John Ray Infant School
Academy converter
- 930 m
Alec Hunter Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,427
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,061
- Shoplifting 263
- Public order 193
- Anti social behaviour 185
- Criminal damage and arson 168
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
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
605 m
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
1.1 km
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
1.7 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
2.2 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Orchard Drive
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Orchard Drive
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Skitts Hill
BCT · Braintree
- 0.1 miles
Skitts Hill
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Park Drive Ind Estate
BCT · Braintree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 011G, 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
21,716 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 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
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
2,427 published events cover 12 months, averaging 202.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,061 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.