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 250-300 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 7JH Shrub End 51.87633900 0.88382600
CO2 7JL Shrub End 51.87534800 0.88135000
CO2 7JN Shrub End 51.87478900 0.88212800
CO2 7JP Shrub End 51.87473700 0.88131100
CO2 7JR Shrub End 51.87624500 0.88068100
CO2 7JS Shrub End 51.87473400 0.87959600
CO2 7JT Shrub End 51.87586200 0.88090400
CO2 7JU Shrub End 51.87487400 0.88012800
CO2 7JW Shrub End 51.87608700 0.88273400
CO2 7JX Shrub End 51.87327600 0.88075300
CO2 7JY Shrub End 51.87383200 0.88045400
CO2 7JZ Shrub End 51.87326800 0.88181300
CO2 7LB Shrub End 51.87477700 0.88333300
CO2 7LD New Town and Christ Church 51.88151500 0.90411000
CO2 7LE New Town and Christ Church 51.88241300 0.90390600
CO2 7LF New Town and Christ Church 51.88314300 0.90383700
CO2 7LG New Town and Christ Church 51.88090000 0.91188800
CO2 7LH New Town and Christ Church 51.88032000 0.91243200
CO2 7LJ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87828100 0.91520700
CO2 7LL New Town and Christ Church 51.88068000 0.91095900
CO2 7LN New Town and Christ Church 51.88110300 0.91021600
CO2 7LP New Town and Christ Church 51.87822000 0.91260100
CO2 7LQ New Town and Christ Church 51.88000900 0.91335700
CO2 7LR Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87822900 0.91478200
CO2 7LS Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87908100 0.91486600
CO2 7LT New Town and Christ Church 51.87924000 0.91294300
CO2 7LU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87722400 0.91506500
CO2 7LW New Town and Christ Church 51.88318000 0.90344700
CO2 7LX Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87718200 0.91783800
CO2 7LZ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87719300 0.91375600
CO2 7NA New Town and Christ Church 51.88421800 0.89415400
CO2 7NB New Town and Christ Church 51.88385000 0.89477000
CO2 7NE New Town and Christ Church 51.88405000 0.89442000
CO2 7NF New Town and Christ Church 51.88439600 0.89451500
CO2 7NG New Town and Christ Church 51.88437000 0.89481800
CO2 7NH Shrub End 51.87940000 0.88883200
CO2 7NJ New Town and Christ Church 51.88431800 0.89522200
CO2 7NL Shrub End 51.87713000 0.89957000
CO2 7NN Castle 51.88749400 0.89725700
CO2 7NP New Town and Christ Church 51.88515900 0.90052200
CO2 7NQ New Town and Christ Church 51.88177000 0.89081500
CO2 7NR New Town and Christ Church 51.88356200 0.90181500
CO2 7NS New Town and Christ Church 51.88414300 0.90196800
CO2 7NT New Town and Christ Church 51.88411600 0.90051300
CO2 7NU New Town and Christ Church 51.88469200 0.90046300
CO2 7NW New Town and Christ Church 51.88399700 0.90131900
CO2 7NX New Town and Christ Church 51.88378000 0.90063700
CO2 7NY New Town and Christ Church 51.88435400 0.89996200
CO2 7PA Berechurch 51.87515800 0.90185500
CO2 7PB Berechurch 51.87463300 0.90163200
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