Witham Central · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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At this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, The Retreat, Witham, CM8 2BH | 14 August 2025 | £348,000 |
| 4, The Retreat, Witham, CM8 2BH | 8 August 2022 | £395,000 |
| 5, The Retreat, Witham, CM8 2BH | 10 September 2021 | £345,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Lift Maltings
Academy sponsor led
Howbridge Infant School
Foundation school
Howbridge Church of England Junior School
Academy sponsor led
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
11 female, 5 male
2,168 residents
1,256 residents
3,521 residents
3,078 residents
2,176 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM8 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
NHS ODS
4
within 5 km
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
192 m
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
364 m
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
550 m
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
1.4 km
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Newland Street
BCT · Witham Town Centre
The George
BCT · Witham Town Centre
The George
BCT · Witham Town Centre
Newland Street
BCT · Witham Town Centre
Collingwood Road
BCT · Witham Town Centre
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
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.
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.
Recorded sales
The five-year median is £348,000 from 3 recorded sales in CM8 2BH. 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.
Published establishments
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lift Maltings is the nearest published school at 690 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Published police records
1,535 published events cover 12 months, averaging 127.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 676 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.