the village has been expanding chop-chop for many years by having prominent many fresh houses & estates existence built though it stills retains a title of existence a village. A 'village' status was the subject of a local referendum in 1999 but residents and high school pupils rejected town status. Tiptree is amongst a challenger for the title of 'big village inside England' along sustaining Kidlington, Oxfordshire, Studley, Warwickshire and Bembridge, Isle of Wight.

Tiptree is administered by Colchester Borough Council and Essex County Council. It lies in the Parliamentary constituency of North Essex although the Boundary Commission has recommended the creation of the Witham constituency which would incorporate Tiptree. These are placed Tenner miles from either Colchester and around Fifty miles northward east of London. Circumferent villages include Messing, Tolleshunt Knights, Birch & Low and Little Totham.

Until 1951 the village was served by the Kelvedon to Tollesbury Light Railway (or a Crab & Winkle Line). It was an early victim of the cutbacks to the British rail network of the 1950s and 60s.