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 150-200 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 7AU New Town and Christ Church 51.88631800 0.89715300
CO2 7AW New Town and Christ Church 51.88264500 0.89473600
CO2 7AX New Town and Christ Church 51.88594100 0.89711400
CO2 7AZ New Town and Christ Church 51.88592800 0.89657500
CO2 7BA New Town and Christ Church 51.88656200 0.89613600
CO2 7BE New Town and Christ Church 51.88006500 0.88040200
CO2 7BG New Town and Christ Church 51.88585700 0.89543700
CO2 7BH New Town and Christ Church 51.88613100 0.89597800
CO2 7BJ New Town and Christ Church 51.88541600 0.89616400
CO2 7BL New Town and Christ Church 51.88576700 0.89762600
CO2 7BN New Town and Christ Church 51.88561100 0.89883700
CO2 7BP New Town and Christ Church 51.88610200 0.89825800
CO2 7BS New Town and Christ Church 51.88624900 0.89777300
CO2 7BU New Town and Christ Church 51.88235300 0.89420900
CO2 7BY New Town and Christ Church 51.87966500 0.87949000
CO2 7BZ New Town and Christ Church 51.88167800 0.89311900
CO2 7DA Castle 51.88764600 0.89982500
CO2 7DB Castle 51.88743000 0.90021800
CO2 7DE Castle 51.88688300 0.89989200
CO2 7DG Castle 51.88777100 0.90288600
CO2 7DL Castle 51.88723700 0.90075800
CO2 7DP Castle 51.88709500 0.90224600
CO2 7DT Castle 51.88716400 0.90258500
CO2 7DU Castle 51.88740200 0.90326900
CO2 7DX Castle 51.88781400 0.90323700
CO2 7EA Castle 51.88718800 0.90356000
CO2 7EB Castle 51.88788000 0.90347400
CO2 7ED New Town and Christ Church 51.88447500 0.90515800
CO2 7EE Castle 51.88714500 0.90384800
CO2 7EF New Town and Christ Church 51.88650900 0.90437400
CO2 7EH New Town and Christ Church 51.88522100 0.90407300
CO2 7EJ New Town and Christ Church 51.88428100 0.90548000
CO2 7EL New Town and Christ Church 51.88526000 0.90503400
CO2 7EN New Town and Christ Church 51.88468200 0.90477900
CO2 7EP New Town and Christ Church 51.88402800 0.90466400
CO2 7EQ New Town and Christ Church 51.88564100 0.90456500
CO2 7ER New Town and Christ Church 51.88381200 0.90469400
CO2 7ES New Town and Christ Church 51.88357500 0.90334200
CO2 7ET New Town and Christ Church 51.88408800 0.90344700
CO2 7EU New Town and Christ Church 51.88450600 0.90353200
CO2 7EW New Town and Christ Church 51.88425000 0.90444600
CO2 7EX New Town and Christ Church 51.88510500 0.90365800
CO2 7EZ New Town and Christ Church 51.88612200 0.90109300
CO2 7FA New Town and Christ Church 51.88651800 0.89635200
CO2 7FB New Town and Christ Church 51.88135700 0.89263400
CO2 7FD Shrub End 51.87818900 0.90014600
CO2 7FF Shrub End 51.87789500 0.88893800
CO2 7FG Shrub End 51.87912000 0.88959800
CO2 7FH Shrub End 51.87788300 0.88796400
CO2 7FJ Shrub End 51.87736400 0.89080800
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