Property market
The five-year median is £587,400 from 4 recorded sales in CM8 2AL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Braintree is £330,637 in June 2026, up 2.0% year on year.
CM8 2AL
Witham North · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 2AL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 2
- Latitude
- 51.817697
- Longitude
- 0.633400
- British National Grid easting
- 581,603
- British National Grid northing
- 216,508
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Witham North · E05012967
- Parish or community
- E04012935
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00108810
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 015C · E01021418
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 015 · E02004460
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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Discovery Drive, Witham, CM8 2AL | 30 June 2025 | £499,800 |
| 5, Discovery Drive, Witham, CM8 2AL | 23 August 2024 | £499,800 |
| 1, Discovery Drive, Witham, CM8 2AL | 26 May 2023 | £675,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 166 m
Lift New Rickstones
Academy sponsor led
- 167 m
Southview School
Academy special sponsor led
- 301 m
Elm Hall Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 934
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 455
- Anti social behaviour 94
- Public order 71
- Other theft 66
- Criminal damage and arson 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM8 2 residents
- 13,218
Age bands in CM8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- 2,168 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- 1,256 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.9%
- 3,521 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- 3,078 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 17.8%
- 2,176 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
1.7 km
DOUGLAS GROVE SURGERY
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
1.9 km
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
2.0 km
FERN HOUSE SURGERY
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
2.3 km
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
3.3 km
KELVEDON & FEERING HEALTH CENTRE
46 HIGH STREET, KELVEDON, COLCHESTER, CO5 9AG
ODS code F81011
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 111 m
Virgil Road
BCT · Witham
- 126 m
Virgil Road
BCT · Witham
- 146 m
Hemingway Road
BCT · Witham
- 175 m
Hemingway Road
BCT · Witham
- 306 m
Rickstones School
BCT · Witham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 015C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,354 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lift New Rickstones is the nearest published school at 166 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
934 published events cover 12 months, averaging 78 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 455 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.