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 600-650 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 8QY Berechurch 51.86564900 0.90814300
CO2 8QZ Berechurch 51.86676800 0.90801100
CO2 8RA Berechurch 51.86344500 0.90781100
CO2 8RB Berechurch 51.86236100 0.90739200
CO2 8RD Berechurch 51.86127000 0.90665400
CO2 8RE Berechurch 51.86069000 0.90573100
CO2 8RF Berechurch 51.86019400 0.90327300
CO2 8RG Berechurch 51.85904600 0.90241500
CO2 8RH Berechurch 51.85855100 0.90094500
CO2 8RJ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87277100 0.91072400
CO2 8RL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87277100 0.91146500
CO2 8RN Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87247200 0.91045700
CO2 8RP Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87274500 0.90922500
CO2 8RQ Berechurch 51.85826600 0.90265500
CO2 8RR Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87289200 0.91164700
CO2 8RS New Town and Christ Church 51.87756300 0.91080100
CO2 8RT Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87710200 0.91236900
CO2 8RU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87576300 0.90939100
CO2 8RW Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87305300 0.91023300
CO2 8RX Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87531000 0.91003000
CO2 8RZ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87409300 0.90855700
CO2 8SA Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87496600 0.90961600
CO2 8SB Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87354500 0.90998900
CO2 8SD Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87412800 0.91185700
CO2 8SF Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87547200 0.91063700
CO2 8SG Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87479300 0.91188600
CO2 8SH Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87584200 0.91057300
CO2 8SJ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87541200 0.91160600
CO2 8SL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87583400 0.91234500
CO2 8SN Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87520800 0.91231900
CO2 8SP Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87553600 0.91274800
CO2 8SQ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87481300 0.91071000
CO2 8SR Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87508400 0.91283500
CO2 8SS Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87443500 0.91328700
CO2 8ST Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87451100 0.91528200
CO2 8SU Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87503800 0.91361600
CO2 8SW Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87477700 0.91229100
CO2 8SX Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87572400 0.91533200
CO2 8SY Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87586800 0.91349600
CO2 8SZ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87506300 0.91805000
CO2 8TA Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87571300 0.91723400
CO2 8TB Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87446600 0.92218100
CO2 8TD Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87582000 0.92090300
CO2 8TE Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87564300 0.91967100
CO2 8TG Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87387900 0.92119800
CO2 8TH Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87535100 0.92096000
CO2 8TJ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87532700 0.92081300
CO2 8TL Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87540200 0.92068700
CO2 8TN Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87520300 0.92076100
CO2 8TQ Old Heath and The Hythe 51.87461400 0.92057800
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