Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lyons Hall School is the nearest published school at 159 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM7 9FL
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM7 9FL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM7
- Postcode sector
- CM7 9
- Latitude
- 51.884152
- Longitude
- 0.582135
- British National Grid easting
- 577,808
- British National Grid northing
- 223,771
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
- E00173979
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 007B · E01021351
- 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
- 18
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 159 m
Lyons Hall School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Great Bradfords Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 891
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 380
- Public order 83
- Anti social behaviour 79
- Criminal damage and arson 68
- Other theft 67
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM7 9 residents
- 9,729
Age bands in CM7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.4%
1,643 residents
907 residents
2,211 residents
2,453 residents
1,846 residents
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 2024-04-08.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
BLYTH'S MEADOW SURGERY
TRINOVANTIAN WAY, BRAINTREE, CM7 3JN
ODS code F81683
1.7 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
BRAINTREE COLLEGE, CHURCH LANE, BRAINTREE, CM7 5SN
ODS code F81014
1.9 km
MOUNT CHAMBERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
92 COGGESHALL ROAD, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BY
ODS code F81087
2.0 km
BLANDFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACE AVENUE, BRAINTREE, CM7 2AE
ODS code F81132
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Kings Park School
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Tesco East Store
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Tesco East Store
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Kings Park Village
BCT · Braintree
- 0.2 miles
Tesco East Store
BCT · Braintree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 007B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,137 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
891 published events cover 12 months, averaging 74.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 380 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.