Postcodes in Colchester District

Facts Checked By Data Team - Written By Mallika Basu - Reviewed By Jonathan Benton

This article covers information about postcodes in Colchester's local authority district. Colchester is an administrative area in Essex County. Colchester district is further divided into 17 Wards.

Below is a complete list of Colchester Postcodes, it has 5208 active postcodes. Colchester contains approximately 71632 residential properties with a population of about 173057.

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Colchester Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 173057
Addresses / Property Count 71632
Active Postcodes 5208
County Essex
No Of Wards in Colchester 17

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. Colchester is a local authority district in Essex county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

Wards in Colchester

There are 17 wards in the district. Below is a list of the wards. You can click on any ward link to view the postcodes of that ward.

Berechurch Castle Greenstead Highwoods Lexden and Braiswick Marks Tey and Layer Mersea and Pyefleet Mile End New Town and Christ Church Old Heath and The Hythe Prettygate Rural North St Anne's and St John's Shrub End Stanway Tiptree Wivenhoe

View Map Of Colchester Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Colchester, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of Colchester postcodes


showing 500-550 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 8HE Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87439600 0.92752300
CO2 8HF Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87211600 0.92817400
CO2 8HG Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87185000 0.92910100
CO2 8HH Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87428200 0.93100300
CO2 8HL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87504800 0.93130000
CO2 8HQ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87697400 0.92802500
CO2 8HR Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87548900 0.93143000
CO2 8HS Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87536000 0.93043400
CO2 8HT Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87705300 0.93108200
CO2 8HU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87759600 0.92869000
CO2 8HW Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87730800 0.92650700
CO2 8HX Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87475700 0.93072900
CO2 8HY Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87468200 0.93156700
CO2 8HZ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87732400 0.92730700
CO2 8JB Old Heath and The Hythe 51.88242200 0.92602500
CO2 8JD Old Heath and The Hythe 51.88138800 0.92556600
CO2 8JF Old Heath and The Hythe 51.88393100 0.92541100
CO2 8JG Old Heath and The Hythe 51.88164900 0.92420200
CO2 8JJ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87585800 0.92838900
CO2 8JL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.88162300 0.92443300
CO2 8JN Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87453100 0.92618100
CO2 8JP Old Heath and The Hythe 51.88196900 0.92603900
CO2 8JQ Castle 51.88951900 0.91609400
CO2 8JR Old Heath and The Hythe 51.88187700 0.92506000
CO2 8JS Old Heath and The Hythe 51.88248200 0.92531700
CO2 8JT Greenstead 51.88108200 0.93060300
CO2 8JU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.88370600 0.92599200
CO2 8JW Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87456300 0.92840600
CO2 8JX Greenstead 51.88381100 0.92733600
CO2 8JY Greenstead 51.88245800 0.92891900
CO2 8JZ Greenstead 51.88516100 0.92727900
CO2 8LA Greenstead 51.88125400 0.93022200
CO2 8LE Greenstead 51.88165200 0.92866400
CO2 8LG Greenstead 51.88321500 0.92984100
CO2 8LH Greenstead 51.88235200 0.93055500
CO2 8LJ Castle 51.88953000 0.91612400
CO2 8LL Berechurch 51.86081600 0.90427200
CO2 8LN Berechurch 51.86175800 0.90510300
CO2 8LP Berechurch 51.86199300 0.90395600
CO2 8LQ Castle 51.88951900 0.91609400
CO2 8LR Berechurch 51.86231500 0.90442700
CO2 8LS Berechurch 51.86189400 0.90617200
CO2 8LT Berechurch 51.86282500 0.90597000
CO2 8LU Berechurch 51.86326700 0.90711700
CO2 8LW Berechurch 51.86123000 0.90464700
CO2 8LX Berechurch 51.86354700 0.90704800
CO2 8LY Berechurch 51.86369500 0.90607000
CO2 8LZ Berechurch 51.86317700 0.90484500
CO2 8NA Berechurch 51.86307600 0.90344400
CO2 8NB Berechurch 51.86403100 0.90192200
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