Postcodes in Colchester District

Facts Checked By Data Team - Written By Mallika Basu - Reviewed By Jonathan Benton

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 400-450 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 7XF Shrub End 51.87860900 0.87560100
CO2 7XG Shrub End 51.87892300 0.88003900
CO2 7XH Shrub End 51.87868700 0.87939900
CO2 8AA Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87691700 0.91955000
CO2 8AB Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87619100 0.92117400
CO2 8AD Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87192800 0.92367300
CO2 8AE Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87198800 0.91946300
CO2 8AF Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87319000 0.91923600
CO2 8AG Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87632200 0.92202500
CO2 8AH Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87540800 0.92262000
CO2 8AJ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87543300 0.92594900
CO2 8AL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87492600 0.92896700
CO2 8AN Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87119300 0.92250600
CO2 8AP Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87534100 0.92749800
CO2 8AQ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87573000 0.92307700
CO2 8AR Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87349300 0.91645100
CO2 8AS Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87328600 0.91754200
CO2 8AT Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87446000 0.92350300
CO2 8AU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87439000 0.92423900
CO2 8AW Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87523600 0.92486100
CO2 8AX Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87330100 0.92491000
CO2 8AY Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87340100 0.92413200
CO2 8AZ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87315100 0.91317500
CO2 8BA Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87244600 0.92202100
CO2 8BB Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87201400 0.92202200
CO2 8BD Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87118900 0.92410400
CO2 8BE Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87030000 0.92416200
CO2 8BG Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87145300 0.91929800
CO2 8BH Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87332400 0.91818400
CO2 8BJ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87090000 0.92526200
CO2 8BL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87331400 0.91349000
CO2 8BN Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87212300 0.92487700
CO2 8BP Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87351600 0.92275900
CO2 8BQ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87317100 0.91528300
CO2 8BS Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87351100 0.92044800
CO2 8BT Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87441100 0.91969300
CO2 8BU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87383600 0.91348000
CO2 8BW Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87204900 0.92568600
CO2 8BX Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87241600 0.91709300
CO2 8BY Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87270800 0.91725800
CO2 8BZ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87345200 0.91300500
CO2 8DA Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87127200 0.92004100
CO2 8DB Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86890600 0.92766100
CO2 8DD Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87023100 0.92719500
CO2 8DE Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86940500 0.92568800
CO2 8DG Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86870400 0.92712500
CO2 8DH Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86769800 0.92704500
CO2 8DJ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86653400 0.92759400
CO2 8DL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86750600 0.92648000
CO2 8DN Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86722200 0.92596800
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