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 350-400 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 7RU New Town and Christ Church 51.87997400 0.90784700
CO2 7RW New Town and Christ Church 51.87881800 0.90953000
CO2 7RX New Town and Christ Church 51.87984600 0.90975700
CO2 7RY New Town and Christ Church 51.87989900 0.91196900
CO2 7RZ New Town and Christ Church 51.88031200 0.91055700
CO2 7SA New Town and Christ Church 51.88068000 0.90949100
CO2 7SB New Town and Christ Church 51.88049500 0.90716800
CO2 7SD New Town and Christ Church 51.88058900 0.90845300
CO2 7SE New Town and Christ Church 51.88038200 0.90918100
CO2 7SF New Town and Christ Church 51.87912800 0.91078600
CO2 7SG New Town and Christ Church 51.88043900 0.90578400
CO2 7SH Berechurch 51.87764400 0.90681000
CO2 7SJ New Town and Christ Church 51.87874300 0.91071700
CO2 7SL New Town and Christ Church 51.87890100 0.91050900
CO2 7SP New Town and Christ Church 51.88562800 0.89959300
CO2 7SR New Town and Christ Church 51.88356800 0.90183000
CO2 7SS New Town and Christ Church 51.87879400 0.91024100
CO2 7SY New Town and Christ Church 51.87943800 0.90991900
CO2 7SZ New Town and Christ Church 51.88099300 0.90166400
CO2 7TD New Town and Christ Church 51.88389300 0.89531100
CO2 7TF Berechurch 51.87165000 0.89969600
CO2 7TG Berechurch 51.87077600 0.89904400
CO2 7TJ Berechurch 51.87781400 0.90175000
CO2 7TL New Town and Christ Church 51.88285600 0.89543300
CO2 7TQ New Town and Christ Church 51.88152300 0.89002800
CO2 7TR Shrub End 51.87786100 0.89072400
CO2 7TU Berechurch 51.87727100 0.90562300
CO2 7UA Shrub End 51.87743200 0.89278800
CO2 7UE Shrub End 51.87767200 0.89472200
CO2 7UF Shrub End 51.87775200 0.89513400
CO2 7UG Shrub End 51.87733500 0.89491800
CO2 7UH Shrub End 51.87780800 0.89614000
CO2 7UN Shrub End 51.87769400 0.89710700
CO2 7UP Shrub End 51.87801900 0.89781000
CO2 7US Shrub End 51.87720900 0.89562200
CO2 7UT Shrub End 51.87279700 0.88596700
CO2 7UU Shrub End 51.87963200 0.88158100
CO2 7UW Shrub End 51.87748700 0.89857500
CO2 7UX Shrub End 51.87985400 0.88354200
CO2 7UY New Town and Christ Church 51.88036600 0.88475100
CO2 7UZ New Town and Christ Church 51.88024900 0.88612500
CO2 7WA Shrub End 51.87688200 0.89794100
CO2 7WB Shrub End 51.87687900 0.89734500
CO2 7WD Shrub End 51.87665700 0.89285500
CO2 7WE New Town and Christ Church 51.88043500 0.88818500
CO2 7WS Castle 51.88770200 0.89876800
CO2 7XA Shrub End 51.87937400 0.87963100
CO2 7XB Shrub End 51.87843000 0.87888800
CO2 7XD Shrub End 51.87894200 0.87778700
CO2 7XE Shrub End 51.87798800 0.87782800
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