Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lift Maltings is the nearest published school at 224 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM8 1EQ
Witham Central · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Witham Central
- Local authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 1EQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2003
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 1
- Latitude
- 51.794716
- Longitude
- 0.632335
- British National Grid easting
- 581,622
- British National Grid northing
- 213,950
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Witham Central · E05012966
- Parish or community
- E04012935
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00108836
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 017H · E01033462
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 017 · E02004462
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 CM8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 224 m
Lift Maltings
Academy sponsor led
- 394 m
Howbridge Infant School
Foundation school
- 440 m
Howbridge Church of England Junior School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,443
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 655
- Anti social behaviour 137
- Public order 115
- Criminal damage and arson 113
- Shoplifting 96
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM8 1 residents
- 15,116
Age bands in CM8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.4%
2,930 residents
1,564 residents
4,476 residents
3,629 residents
2,660 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
FERN HOUSE SURGERY
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
475 m
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
977 m
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
1.0 km
DOUGLAS GROVE SURGERY
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bridge Hospital
BCT · Witham
- 0.0 miles
Bridge Hospital
BCT · Witham
- 0.1 miles
Hatfield Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.1 miles
Spinks Lane
BCT · Witham
- 0.1 miles
Hatfield Road
BCT · Witham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 017H, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,166 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,443 published events cover 12 months, averaging 120.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 655 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.