Witham

What is it like to live in Witham?

Homes sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3.1% on the 12 months before. At 492 of the 645 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 212 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 25 of its 668 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 Witham (Essex), 500 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 Witham?

Homes in Witham sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 368 sales, down 3.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £430,000 54 sales
• Semi-detached £355,000 87 sales
• Terraced £302,000 140 sales
• Flat or maisonette £175,000 87 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole CM8 district, Witham's main postcode district: a typical £321,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Witham: 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 Witham?

52 of the 668 postcodes now in use in Witham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 28 of the 447 homes sold in Witham were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CM8 district, 14%.

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

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 Witham?

Ofcom reports on 645 of the 668 postcodes in Witham. At 492 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.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Witham at risk of flooding?

25 of the 668 postcodes in Witham 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 212 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 Witham?

The open schools at the postcodes in Witham (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.

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 Witham?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Witham is Witham (Essex) Rail Station, 500 m away in a straight line.

• Witham (Essex) Rail Station Railway station 500 mWalk
• Hatfield Peverel Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
• White Notley Rail Station Railway station 4.9 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 Witham?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Witham. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Collingwood Road Surgery Phone 01376 502264 200 mWalk
• Witham Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 01376 337272 550 mWalk
• Fern House Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2015, over 3 years old · Phone 01376 502108 550 mWalk
• Douglas Grove Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 01376 512827 900 mWalk

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Witham safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,972 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Witham 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 64, other crime 61, possession of weapons 26, robbery 15, bicycle theft 9, theft from the person 5.

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.

Source: 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 Witham?

District, borough or city council

Braintree

County council

Essex

Parliamentary constituency

Witham

Police force area

Essex

Region

East of England

Country

England

MP

Priti Patel (Conservative)

All 668 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources