Property market
The five-year median is £222,500 from 10 recorded sales in CM8 2DH. 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 2DH
Witham North · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 2DH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 2
- Latitude
- 51.807191
- Longitude
- 0.637502
- British National Grid easting
- 581,928
- British National Grid northing
- 215,350
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
- E00108804
- 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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Camelia House, 49, Flat 6, Braintree Road, Witham, CM8 2DH | 12 August 2025 | £225,000 |
| Camelia House, 49, Flat 10, Braintree Road, Witham, CM8 2DH | 12 August 2025 | £215,000 |
| Camelia House, 49, Flat 2, Braintree Road, Witham, CM8 2DH | 12 August 2025 | £220,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 737 m
Templars Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 951 m
Acorn Academy
Academy converter
- 951 m
Witham Oaks Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,736
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 791
- Anti social behaviour 169
- Public order 134
- Criminal damage and arson 123
- Other theft 112
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+
- 70%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 70%
- Gigabit-capable
- 70%
- 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
455 m
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
826 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
1.2 km
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 87 m
Technology Centre
BCT · Witham
- 96 m
Technology Centre
BCT · Witham
- 126 m
Chipping Hill
BCT · Witham
- 158 m
Railway Station
BCT · Witham
- 162 m
Morrisons Store
BCT · Witham
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
Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Templars Academy is the nearest published school at 737 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,736 published events cover 12 months, averaging 145 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 791 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.