Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Chatten Free School is the nearest published school at 343 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CM8 3ZS
Silver End & Cressing · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CM8 3ZS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CM
- Postcode district
- CM8
- Postcode sector
- CM8 3
- Latitude
- 51.819535
- Longitude
- 0.647278
- British National Grid easting
- 582,552
- British National Grid northing
- 216,747
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
- E00188070
- 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
Explore CM8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 343 m
Chatten Free School
Free schools special
- 678 m
Elm Hall Primary School
Academy converter
- 820 m
Lift New Rickstones
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 690
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 324
- Anti social behaviour 63
- Other theft 60
- Public order 46
- Criminal damage and arson 43
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
6
within 5 km
COLLINGWOOD ROAD SURGERY
40 COLLINGWOOD ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2DZ
ODS code F81635
1.9 km
WITHAM HEALTH CENTRE
4 MAYLAND ROAD, WITHAM, CM8 2UX
ODS code F81193
2.1 km
FERN HOUSE SURGERY
FERN HOUSE, 125-129 NEWLAND STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BH
ODS code F81030
2.5 km
DOUGLAS GROVE SURGERY
DOUGLAS GROVE, WITHAM, CM8 1TE
ODS code F81173
2.6 km
SILVER END SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, BROADWAY, SILVER END, WITHAM, CM8 3RQ
ODS code Y05023
3.4 km
KELVEDON & FEERING HEALTH CENTRE
46 HIGH STREET, KELVEDON, COLCHESTER, CO5 9AG
ODS code F81011
3.9 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
- 0.2 miles
Rickstones Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.2 miles
Rickstones Road
BCT · Witham
- 0.2 miles
Poplar Close
BCT · Witham
- 0.3 miles
Lime Close
BCT · Witham
- 0.3 miles
Redwood 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
690 published events cover 12 months, averaging 57.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 324 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.