Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Chatten Free School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM8 3HA
Silver End & Cressing · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 3HA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 3
- Latitude
- 51.815954
- Longitude
- 0.666062
- British National Grid easting
- 583,861
- British National Grid northing
- 216,396
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Silver End & Cressing · E05012965
- Parish or community
- E04012933
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00108499
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 015A · E01021362
- 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
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Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Burghey Brook Farm, London Road, Rivenhall, Witham, CM8 3HA | 12 September 2018 | £750,000 |
| Burghey Brook Cottages, 2, London Road, Rivenhall, Witham, CM8 3HA | 1 July 2005 | £175,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.6 km
Chatten Free School
Free schools special
- 1.7 km
Rivenhall Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Elm Hall Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 220
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 87
- Other theft 29
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Vehicle crime 21
- Public order 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CM8 3 residents
- 7,333
5 female, 9 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CM8 3 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+
- 76.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 76.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 76.9%
- 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
6
within 5 km
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
2.3 km
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
2.4 km
FERN HOUSE SURGERY
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
2.8 km
KELVEDON & FEERING HEALTH CENTRE
46 HIGH STREET, KELVEDON, COLCHESTER, CO5 9AG
ODS code F81011
3.0 km
DOUGLAS GROVE SURGERY
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
3.4 km
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
4.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
The Oak
BCT · Rivenhall
- 0.8 miles
The Oak
BCT · Rivenhall
- 0.9 miles
Lime Close
BCT · Witham
- 0.9 miles
Freebournes Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.9 miles
Yew Close
BCT · Witham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 015A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,120 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Recorded crime
220 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 87 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.