Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Teaseldown School is the nearest published school at 361 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO9 3FN
Hedingham · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO9 3FN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO9
- Postcode sector
- CO9 3
- Latitude
- 51.977796
- Longitude
- 0.587068
- British National Grid easting
- 577,777
- British National Grid northing
- 234,196
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- Hedingham · E05010378
- Parish or community
- E04003925
- Westminster constituency
- Braintree · E14001121
- Output area
- E00108697
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 003C · E01021399
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 003 · E02004448
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
- 12
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 361 m
Teaseldown School
Other independent special school
- 414 m
St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Sible Hedingham
Voluntary controlled school
- 660 m
The Yellow House School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 218
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 99
- Other theft 33
- Criminal damage and arson 23
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Public order 12
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
HEDINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
10 FALCON SQUARE, CASTLE HEDINGHAM, HALSTEAD, CO9 3BY
ODS code Y00293
1.6 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
Rectory Rd
BCT · Sible Hedingham
- 0.2 miles
Rectory Rd
BCT · Sible Hedingham
- 0.3 miles
Post Office
BCT · Sible Hedingham
- 0.3 miles
Post Office
BCT · Sible Hedingham
- 0.4 miles
Station Road
BCT · Sible Hedingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 003C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,285 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
218 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 99 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.