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 450-500 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 8DP Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86528900 0.92773100
CO2 8DR Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86544500 0.92868500
CO2 8DS Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86488100 0.92787900
CO2 8DT Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86705400 0.92549200
CO2 8DU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86853300 0.92458600
CO2 8DW Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86850000 0.92555700
CO2 8DX Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86872900 0.92645800
CO2 8DY Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87488500 0.92523000
CO2 8DZ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86865700 0.92792100
CO2 8EA Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86826300 0.92759000
CO2 8EB Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86705100 0.92886200
CO2 8ED Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86613200 0.92891900
CO2 8EE Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86552300 0.92918400
CO2 8EF Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86496400 0.92993200
CO2 8EG Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86474600 0.93110900
CO2 8EH Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86619100 0.93017200
CO2 8EJ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86318400 0.93712300
CO2 8EL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86509700 0.93194500
CO2 8EN Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86608400 0.93121100
CO2 8EP Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86755000 0.92760200
CO2 8EQ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86559700 0.93054000
CO2 8ER Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86809600 0.92911900
CO2 8EW Old Heath and The Hythe 51.86690600 0.93032000
CO2 8EX Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87646200 0.92302200
CO2 8EZ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87752900 0.92448700
CO2 8FA Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87580000 0.92674300
CO2 8FJ Berechurch 51.85887800 0.91030600
CO2 8FL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87276400 0.92452600
CO2 8FN Greenstead 51.88108700 0.92823500
CO2 8FP Greenstead 51.88125700 0.92791100
CO2 8FQ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87755600 0.92631900
CO2 8FR Greenstead 51.87993600 0.93161800
CO2 8FT Castle 51.88951900 0.91609400
CO2 8FU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87946400 0.92779500
CO2 8FX Greenstead 51.87956200 0.93062000
CO2 8FZ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87025000 0.92870700
CO2 8GD Castle 51.88951900 0.91609400
CO2 8GE Greenstead 51.87934000 0.93121600
CO2 8GF Castle 51.88951900 0.91609400
CO2 8GJ Castle 51.88951900 0.91609400
CO2 8GL Greenstead 51.87919400 0.93204900
CO2 8GN Greenstead 51.87925100 0.93046900
CO2 8GP Castle 51.88951900 0.91609400
CO2 8GQ Greenstead 51.87987200 0.92971000
CO2 8GT Greenstead 51.87998800 0.93120000
CO2 8GU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87330600 0.92687100
CO2 8GW Castle 51.88951900 0.91609400
CO2 8GY Greenstead 51.87852700 0.93425800
CO2 8GZ Castle 51.88951900 0.91609400
CO2 8HA Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87683200 0.93047200
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