Postcodes in Colchester District

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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 700-750 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 8XW Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87312900 0.92312600
CO2 8XY Greenstead 51.88229100 0.92719400
CO2 8XZ Greenstead 51.87858800 0.93190800
CO2 8YB Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87383400 0.91430800
CO2 8YD Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87395800 0.91508700
CO2 8YE Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87422400 0.91633900
CO2 8YG Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87444500 0.91687600
CO2 8YH Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87427900 0.91813000
CO2 8YN Berechurch 51.86538100 0.90954900
CO2 8YP Greenstead 51.88198600 0.92753700
CO2 8YQ Greenstead 51.88195200 0.92818900
CO2 8YR Greenstead 51.88170900 0.92783900
CO2 8YS Greenstead 51.88143200 0.92740000
CO2 8YT Berechurch 51.86314400 0.90251900
CO2 8YU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87356500 0.92623400
CO2 8YW Berechurch 51.86011600 0.89947700
CO2 8YX Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87699700 0.93139800
CO2 8YY Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87623700 0.91978200
CO2 8ZA Greenstead 51.88315000 0.92752600
CO2 8ZB Greenstead 51.88290400 0.92762600
CO2 8ZD Greenstead 51.88300000 0.92702200
CO2 9AA Shrub End 51.87722400 0.87376900
CO2 9AB Shrub End 51.87615500 0.87262500
CO2 9AD Shrub End 51.87633400 0.87153300
CO2 9AE Shrub End 51.87529700 0.87127800
CO2 9AF Shrub End 51.87457200 0.87002500
CO2 9AG Shrub End 51.87559400 0.86904400
CO2 9AH Shrub End 51.87531100 0.87255700
CO2 9AJ Shrub End 51.87561200 0.87458100
CO2 9AL Shrub End 51.87462500 0.87377700
CO2 9AN Shrub End 51.87384700 0.87101100
CO2 9AP Shrub End 51.87327200 0.87428700
CO2 9AR Shrub End 51.87307300 0.87213800
CO2 9AS Shrub End 51.87362300 0.87353900
CO2 9AT Shrub End 51.87474100 0.87491800
CO2 9AU Shrub End 51.87445400 0.87414400
CO2 9AW Shrub End 51.87473100 0.87198300
CO2 9AX Shrub End 51.87394100 0.87523000
CO2 9AY Shrub End 51.87310000 0.87542400
CO2 9AZ Shrub End 51.87221700 0.87551300
CO2 9BA Shrub End 51.87173200 0.87511800
CO2 9BB Shrub End 51.87254300 0.87429800
CO2 9BD Shrub End 51.87235600 0.87312400
CO2 9BE Shrub End 51.87366100 0.87638900
CO2 9BG Shrub End 51.87515400 0.87712400
CO2 9BH Shrub End 51.87376800 0.87166000
CO2 9BP Shrub End 51.87270200 0.87234600
CO2 9BQ Shrub End 51.87616300 0.87496500
CO2 9BS Shrub End 51.87453000 0.86809000
CO2 9BT Shrub End 51.87394400 0.86998500
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