Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. de Vere Primary School is the nearest published school at 785 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO9 3AQ
Hedingham · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO9 3AQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO9
- Postcode sector
- CO9 3
- Latitude
- 51.994537
- Longitude
- 0.604394
- British National Grid easting
- 578,900
- British National Grid northing
- 236,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Hedingham · E05010378
- Parish or community
- E04003889
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00108688
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 002A · E01021398
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 002 · E02004447
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 CO9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 785 m
de Vere Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
Hedingham School and Sixth Form
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Teaseldown School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 69
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 43
- Burglary 7
- Other theft 5
- Public order 4
- Vehicle crime 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO9 3 residents
- 6,409
Age bands in CO9 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
1,079 residents
640 residents
1,442 residents
1,766 residents
1,484 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
HEDINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
10 FALCON SQUARE, CASTLE HEDINGHAM, HALSTEAD, CO9 3BY
ODS code Y00293
620 m
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Till Smiths Garage
BCT · Castle Hedingham
- 0.3 miles
Till Smiths Garage
BCT · Castle Hedingham
- 0.4 miles
The Bell
BCT · Castle Hedingham
- 0.4 miles
Bowmans Park
BCT · Castle Hedingham
- 0.4 miles
The Bell
BCT · Castle Hedingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 002A, 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
17,011 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
69 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 43 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.