Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Templars Academy is the nearest published school at 474 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM8 2TP
Witham North · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Witham North
- Local authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 2TP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 2
- Latitude
- 51.809456
- Longitude
- 0.635936
- British National Grid easting
- 581,811
- British National Grid northing
- 215,598
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 474 m
Templars Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 935 m
Acorn Academy
Academy converter
- 935 m
Witham Oaks Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,626
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 729
- Anti social behaviour 165
- Public order 128
- Criminal damage and arson 114
- Other theft 108
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
722 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
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
St Nicholas Close
BCT · Witham
- 0.2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,626 published events cover 12 months, averaging 135.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 729 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.