Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lift Maltings is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM8 2AX
Witham Central · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 2AX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2014
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 2
- Latitude
- 51.802797
- Longitude
- 0.643729
- British National Grid easting
- 582,375
- British National Grid northing
- 214,877
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
- E00108806
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 017B · E01021416
- 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
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Iceni House, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 2AX | 19 December 2014 | £135,500 |
| 7 Iceni House, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 2AX | 19 December 2014 | £130,000 |
| 31 Iceni House, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 2AX | 19 December 2014 | £124,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.0 km
Lift Maltings
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Templars Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Howbridge Infant School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,686
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 753
- Anti social behaviour 163
- Public order 132
- Criminal damage and arson 116
- Other theft 114
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%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.8%
2,168 residents
1,256 residents
3,521 residents
3,078 residents
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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
255 m
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
379 m
FERN HOUSE SURGERY
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
728 m
DOUGLAS GROVE SURGERY
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Avenue Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.0 miles
Avenue Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.2 miles
Crittall Rd
BCT · Witham
- 0.2 miles
The George
BCT · Witham Town Centre
- 0.2 miles
The George
BCT · Witham Town Centre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 017B, 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
20,726 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
1,686 published events cover 12 months, averaging 140.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 753 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.