Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Silver End Academy is the nearest published school at 798 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM8 3PW
Silver End & Cressing · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 3PW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2002
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 3
- Latitude
- 51.850820
- Longitude
- 0.624109
- British National Grid easting
- 580,830
- British National Grid northing
- 220,168
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
- E04003926
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00188088
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 012B · E01021361
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 012 · E02004457
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
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 798 m
Silver End Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.5 km
Cressing Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
White Notley Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 285
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 141
- Anti social behaviour 29
- Other theft 23
- Public order 23
- Criminal damage and arson 22
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
493 m
THE COGGESHALL SURGERY
STONEHAM ST, COGGESHALL, COLCHESTER, CO6 1UH
ODS code F81730
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wood Grove
BCT · Silver End
- 0.1 miles
Wood Grove
BCT · Silver End
- 0.1 miles
Boars Tye Road
BCT · Silver End
- 0.1 miles
Boars Tye Road
BCT · Silver End
- 0.2 miles
Silver Street
BCT · Silver End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 012B, 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
20,673 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
285 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 141 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.