Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Southview School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM8 1SS
Hatfield Peverel & Terling · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 1SS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2018
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 1
- Latitude
- 51.823481
- Longitude
- 0.618441
- British National Grid easting
- 580,549
- British National Grid northing
- 217,114
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Hatfield Peverel & Terling · E05012964
- Parish or community
- E04003895
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00108437
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 018A · E01021348
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 018 · E02004463
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
- 1.3 km
Southview School
Academy special sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Lift New Rickstones
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Elm Hall Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 282
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 159
- Other theft 20
- Public order 20
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Criminal damage and arson 17
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
DOUGLAS GROVE SURGERY
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
2.4 km
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
2.6 km
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
2.6 km
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
3.1 km
FERN HOUSE SURGERY
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
The Village Hall
BCT · Faulkborne
- 0.6 miles
The Village Hall
BCT · Faulkborne
- 0.7 miles
Hemingway Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.7 miles
Hemingway Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.9 miles
Oxlip Rd
BCT · Witham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 018A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,629 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
282 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 159 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.