Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Cressing Primary School is the nearest published school at 509 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 8NY
Silver End & Cressing · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 8NY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2001
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 8
- Latitude
- 51.853031
- Longitude
- 0.594584
- British National Grid easting
- 578,788
- British National Grid northing
- 220,341
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Silver End & Cressing · E05012965
- Parish or community
- E04003892
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00108605
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 012E · E01021380
- 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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bakery, Hawbush Green, Cressing, Braintree, CM7 8NY | 27 August 2014 | £467,000 |
| Bakery, Hawbush Green, Cressing, Braintree, CM7 8NY | 28 November 2003 | £352,500 |
| Bakery, Hawbush Green, Cressing, Braintree, CM7 8NY | 22 December 2000 | £220,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 509 m
Cressing Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
White Notley Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.5 km
Silver End Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 184
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 87
- Vehicle crime 16
- Public order 15
- Other theft 14
- Anti social behaviour 13
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
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
2.1 km
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
3.6 km
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
4.1 km
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
4.7 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Polecat Road
BCT · Cressing
- 0.0 miles
Polecat Road
BCT · Cressing
- 0.4 miles
Jeffrey's Road
BCT · Cressing
- 0.4 miles
Jeffrey's Road
BCT · Cressing
- 0.5 miles
Three Ashes
BCT · Cressing
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 012E, 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
13,436 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
184 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 87 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.