Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. White Court School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 8QP
Great Notley & Black Notley · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 8QP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2001
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 8
- Latitude
- 51.844823
- Longitude
- 0.534233
- British National Grid easting
- 574,664
- British National Grid northing
- 219,282
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Great Notley & Black Notley · E05010374
- Parish or community
- E04003884
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00108436
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 013A · E01021347
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 013 · E02004458
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
- 17
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.6 km
White Court School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Notley Green Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 117
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 49
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Criminal damage and arson 14
- Other theft 7
- Drugs 6
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
3.8 km
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
4.0 km
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Dagnets Lane
BCT · Youngs End
- 0.5 miles
Dagnets Lane
BCT · Youngs End
- 0.5 miles
Green Dragon
BCT · Youngs End
- 0.5 miles
Green Dragon
BCT · Youngs End
- 0.6 miles
The Chase
BCT · Great Notley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 013A, 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
23,441 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
117 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 49 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.