Braintree
Braintree is covered by postcode districts CM6, CM7 and CM77. It is in the Braintree council area, Essex.
Every postcode in Braintree, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 63
- In use before 2020: 936
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 999 postcodes in Braintree that ONS places, 63 are new since 2020 and 936 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.8802, longitude 0.5575. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Braintree?
Homes sold for a typical £305,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.4% on the 12 months before. At 815 of the 927 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 144 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 70 of its 999 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Braintree, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Braintree?
Homes in Braintree sold for a typical £305,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 516 sales, up 2.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £450,000 106 sales
- Semi-detached £325,000 169 sales
- Terraced £285,000 144 sales
- Flat or maisonette £175,000 97 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CM7 district, Braintree's main postcode district: a typical £322,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Braintree: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Braintree?
63 of the 999 postcodes now in use in Braintree came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 17 of the 692 homes sold in Braintree were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM7 district, 9%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Braintree | Across the CM7 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 6 of 516 (1%) | 14 of 599 (2%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 17 of 692 (2%) | 80 of 845 (9%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Braintree?
Ofcom reports on 927 of the 999 postcodes in Braintree. At 815 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Braintree at risk of flooding?
70 of the 999 postcodes in Braintree have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 144 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Braintree?
The open schools at the postcodes in Braintree (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- St Francis Catholic Primary School, Braintree800 m 203 pupils, 210 places
- Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School850 m 269 pupils, 270 places
- Great Bradfords Junior School850 m 326 pupils, 355 places
- John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery1.0 km 501 pupils, 630 places
- John Ray Infant School1.3 km 319 pupils, 360 places
- John Ray Junior School1.3 km 439 pupils, 432 places
- St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School1.3 km 387 pupils, 420 places
- Lyons Hall School1.6 km 558 pupils, 630 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Braintree?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Braintree is Braintree Rail Station, 550 m away in a straight line.
- Braintree Rail Station Railway station 550 mWalk
- Braintree Freeport Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
- Cressing Rail Station Railway station 3.4 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Braintree?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Braintree. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Mount Chambers Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2026 · Phone 01376 553415 250 mWalk
- Blyth's Meadow Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01376 552508 400 mWalk
- Blandford Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01376 347100 1.1 kmWalk
- Church Lane Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 01376 552474 1.2 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Braintree safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,909 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Braintree over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 202 September 2025
- 228 October 2025
- 230 November 2025
- 217 December 2025
- 247 January 2026
- 228 February 2026
- 234 March 2026
- 274 April 2026
- 269 May 2026
- 253 June 2026
- 250 July 2026
- 277 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 65, burglary 52, possession of weapons 29, robbery 24, theft from the person 23, bicycle theft 14.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Braintree?
- District, borough or city council
- Braintree
- County council
- Essex
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Braintree (992) and Witham (7)
- Police force area
- Essex
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Braintree
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Braintree about council tax Council tax, on braintree.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Braintree
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Braintree postcodes
999 postcodes in use in Braintree, by district:
Those districts are all in the CM postcode area.
Check a Braintree postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Braintree
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Braintree's £305,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Braintree
- What is it like to live in Braintree?
- Homes sold for a typical £305,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.4% on the 12 months before. At 815 of the 927 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 144 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 70 of its 999 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Braintree, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Braintree?
- Braintree is covered by postcode districts CM6, CM7 and CM77, across 999 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Braintree in?
- Braintree is in the Braintree council area, and Essex is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Braintree?
- Homes in Braintree sold for a typical £305,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 516 sales, up 2.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Braintree?
- In Braintree, primary schools at its postcodes include St Francis Catholic Primary School, Braintree, Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School and Great Bradfords Junior School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Tabor Academy, Alec Hunter Academy and Notley High School and Sixth Form. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Braintree have a railway station?
- Yes: Braintree is 550 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Braintree, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Braintree?
- Ofcom reports on 927 of the 999 postcodes in Braintree. At 815 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Braintree at risk of flooding?
- 70 of the 999 postcodes in Braintree have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 144 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Braintree?
- 63 of the 999 postcodes now in use in Braintree came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 17 of the 692 homes sold in Braintree were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM7 district, 9%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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