Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Tabor Academy is the nearest published school at 314 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 7SQ
Bocking South · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bocking South
- Local authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 7SQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 7
- Latitude
- 51.882637
- Longitude
- 0.539789
- British National Grid easting
- 574,900
- British National Grid northing
- 223,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Bocking South · E05010367
- Parish or community
- E43000267
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00173987
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 008C · E01021358
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 008 · E02004453
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
- 18
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 314 m
Tabor Academy
Academy converter
- 493 m
John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 533 m
St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,842
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 873
- Anti social behaviour 166
- Public order 135
- Criminal damage and arson 130
- Shoplifting 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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
424 m
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
1.0 km
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
1.5 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Tabor High School
BCT · Braintree
- 0.3 miles
Pygot Place
BCT · Bocking
- 0.3 miles
St Michael's
BCT · Braintree
- 0.3 miles
Pygot Place
BCT · Bocking
- 0.3 miles
St Michael's
BCT · Braintree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 008C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,826 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
1,842 published events cover 12 months, averaging 153.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 873 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.