Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lift Maltings is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM8 3DB
Witham Central · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Witham Central
- Local authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 3DB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 3
- Latitude
- 51.803796
- Longitude
- 0.648502
- British National Grid easting
- 582,700
- British National Grid northing
- 215,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Witham Central · E05012966
- Parish or community
- E04012935
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00108802
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.3 km
Lift Maltings
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Templars Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.6 km
Howbridge Infant School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,368
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 591
- Anti social behaviour 132
- Public order 104
- Criminal damage and arson 103
- Other theft 99
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CM8 3 residents
- 7,333
Age bands in CM8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,427 residents
738 residents
1,969 residents
2,113 residents
1,754 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
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
528 m
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
710 m
FERN HOUSE SURGERY
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
1.0 km
DOUGLAS GROVE SURGERY
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
1.8 km
KELVEDON & FEERING HEALTH CENTRE
46 HIGH STREET, KELVEDON, COLCHESTER, CO5 9AG
ODS code F81011
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Crittall Rd
BCT · Witham
- 0.1 miles
Crittall Rd
BCT · Witham
- 0.2 miles
Freebournes Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.2 miles
Avenue Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.2 miles
Avenue Road
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
Recorded crime
1,368 published events cover 12 months, averaging 114 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 591 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.