Property market
The five-year median is £455,000 from 3 recorded sales in CM8 2JF. 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 2JF
Witham North · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 2JF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 2
- Latitude
- 51.809318
- Longitude
- 0.636073
- British National Grid easting
- 581,821
- British National Grid northing
- 215,583
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
- E00108801
- 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
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, St Nicholas Road, Witham, CM8 2JF | 30 January 2026 | £455,000 |
| Allombra, St Nicholas Road, Witham, CM8 2JF | 13 November 2025 | £465,000 |
| 3, St Nicholas Road, Witham, CM8 2JF | 11 October 2021 | £350,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 490 m
Templars Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 936 m
Acorn Academy
Academy converter
- 936 m
Witham Oaks Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,631
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 732
- Anti social behaviour 165
- Public order 128
- Criminal damage and arson 114
- Other theft 108
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- CM8 2 residents
- 13,218
25 female, 23 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% 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+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 85%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90%
- 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
705 m
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
1.1 km
DOUGLAS GROVE SURGERY
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
1.2 km
FERN HOUSE SURGERY
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
1.3 km
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
4.2 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chalks Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.1 miles
Chalks Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.1 miles
Braintree Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.1 miles
Technology Centre
BCT · Witham
- 0.1 miles
Technology Centre
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 490 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,631 published events cover 12 months, averaging 135.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 732 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.