Property market
The five-year median is £250,000 from 5 recorded sales in CM8 2BU. 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 2BU
Witham North · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 2BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 2
- Latitude
- 51.807054
- Longitude
- 0.636376
- British National Grid easting
- 581,851
- British National Grid northing
- 215,332
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
- E00108805
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 015B · E01021417
- 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
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Stefre House, 4, White Horse Lane, Witham, CM8 2BU | 24 March 2025 | £238,000 |
| Stefre House, 2, White Horse Lane, Witham, CM8 2BU | 11 December 2023 | £250,000 |
| The Herrons, White Horse Lane, Witham, CM8 2BU | 1 September 2023 | £294,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 742 m
Templars Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 872 m
Acorn Academy
Academy converter
- 872 m
Witham Oaks Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,761
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 803
- Anti social behaviour 173
- Public order 134
- Criminal damage and arson 124
- Other theft 115
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- 5 female, 6 male
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- 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
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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
456 m
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
851 m
FERN HOUSE SURGERY
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
1.1 km
DOUGLAS GROVE SURGERY
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
1.1 km
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 97 m
Chipping Hill
BCT · Witham
- 138 m
Chipping Hill Church
BCT · Witham
- 157 m
Technology Centre
BCT · Witham
- 166 m
Technology Centre
BCT · Witham
- 194 m
Railway Station
BCT · Witham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 015B, 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
15,880 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Flood risk
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.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
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.
Evidence in context
Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Templars Academy is the nearest published school at 742 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,761 published events cover 12 months, averaging 147 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 803 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.