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 200-250 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 7FL Shrub End 51.87870700 0.88960100
CO2 7FP Shrub End 51.87761900 0.88921100
CO2 7FQ New Town and Christ Church 51.88173300 0.90729200
CO2 7FR Shrub End 51.87778000 0.88960000
CO2 7FS New Town and Christ Church 51.88190600 0.89162200
CO2 7FT New Town and Christ Church 51.88196600 0.89236800
CO2 7FU New Town and Christ Church 51.88202500 0.89007500
CO2 7FW New Town and Christ Church 51.88133900 0.90649600
CO2 7FX New Town and Christ Church 51.88194200 0.90477700
CO2 7FY New Town and Christ Church 51.88104200 0.90652100
CO2 7FZ New Town and Christ Church 51.88106600 0.90844000
CO2 7GA New Town and Christ Church 51.88310800 0.90041900
CO2 7GB New Town and Christ Church 51.88285000 0.90031600
CO2 7GD New Town and Christ Church 51.88352200 0.89274400
CO2 7GE New Town and Christ Church 51.88299300 0.89268100
CO2 7GF New Town and Christ Church 51.88300000 0.89310300
CO2 7GG New Town and Christ Church 51.88196000 0.90682700
CO2 7GH New Town and Christ Church 51.88181900 0.89251800
CO2 7GJ New Town and Christ Church 51.88243600 0.90649400
CO2 7GL New Town and Christ Church 51.88353900 0.89422700
CO2 7GN New Town and Christ Church 51.88353900 0.89386400
CO2 7GP New Town and Christ Church 51.88242900 0.90786000
CO2 7GQ New Town and Christ Church 51.88332700 0.90829600
CO2 7GR New Town and Christ Church 51.88305900 0.90614200
CO2 7GS New Town and Christ Church 51.88241900 0.90608600
CO2 7GT New Town and Christ Church 51.88354000 0.90551900
CO2 7GU New Town and Christ Church 51.88316400 0.90410000
CO2 7GZ New Town and Christ Church 51.88414900 0.89649000
CO2 7HA New Town and Christ Church 51.88627100 0.90026000
CO2 7HB Castle 51.88704100 0.89955400
CO2 7HD New Town and Christ Church 51.88639400 0.90066000
CO2 7HE New Town and Christ Church 51.88595700 0.89904800
CO2 7HH Shrub End 51.87821500 0.88249300
CO2 7HN Shrub End 51.87938000 0.88524100
CO2 7HP Shrub End 51.87894000 0.88082400
CO2 7HQ Shrub End 51.87685300 0.88304500
CO2 7HR Shrub End 51.87789100 0.88103300
CO2 7HS Shrub End 51.87870600 0.88301800
CO2 7HT Shrub End 51.87822300 0.88327800
CO2 7HU Shrub End 51.87904200 0.88657100
CO2 7HW Shrub End 51.87899100 0.88313800
CO2 7HX Shrub End 51.87641400 0.88333600
CO2 7HY Shrub End 51.87727000 0.88804100
CO2 7HZ Shrub End 51.87807400 0.88642200
CO2 7JA Shrub End 51.87768200 0.88735500
CO2 7JB Shrub End 51.87720200 0.88604600
CO2 7JD Shrub End 51.87242900 0.88081500
CO2 7JE Shrub End 51.87659900 0.88605100
CO2 7JF Shrub End 51.87689400 0.88503800
CO2 7JG Shrub End 51.87765000 0.88391000
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