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 750-800 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 9BU Shrub End 51.87337500 0.87082100
CO2 9BX Shrub End 51.87204200 0.87125900
CO2 9BY Shrub End 51.87178500 0.87182400
CO2 9DA Shrub End 51.87208500 0.87021600
CO2 9DB Shrub End 51.87164300 0.86844400
CO2 9DD Shrub End 51.87194100 0.86730100
CO2 9DE Shrub End 51.87189900 0.86644100
CO2 9DF Shrub End 51.87124700 0.86477200
CO2 9DG Shrub End 51.87199000 0.86415100
CO2 9DH Shrub End 51.87142400 0.86561100
CO2 9DJ Shrub End 51.87238600 0.86526600
CO2 9DL Shrub End 51.87350300 0.86407300
CO2 9DN Shrub End 51.87267200 0.86717300
CO2 9DP Shrub End 51.87088100 0.86688400
CO2 9DR Shrub End 51.86876100 0.87044000
CO2 9DS Shrub End 51.86955500 0.86851400
CO2 9DT Shrub End 51.87113300 0.86944300
CO2 9DU Shrub End 51.87055900 0.86974100
CO2 9DW Shrub End 51.87324200 0.86558200
CO2 9DX Shrub End 51.87088600 0.86812000
CO2 9DZ Shrub End 51.86834000 0.87036900
CO2 9EA Shrub End 51.87114200 0.87324900
CO2 9EB Shrub End 51.87127000 0.87267700
CO2 9ED Shrub End 51.87136500 0.87468800
CO2 9EE Shrub End 51.87157200 0.87439600
CO2 9EF Shrub End 51.87142800 0.87355900
CO2 9EG Shrub End 51.87084500 0.87496000
CO2 9EH Shrub End 51.87078000 0.87555100
CO2 9EQ Shrub End 51.87073600 0.87588200
CO2 9ER Shrub End 51.87034800 0.87593000
CO2 9ES Shrub End 51.86757700 0.87215100
CO2 9ET Shrub End 51.86809700 0.87221300
CO2 9EU Shrub End 51.86926100 0.87246200
CO2 9EX Shrub End 51.86953400 0.87192700
CO2 9EY Shrub End 51.86950000 0.87074800
CO2 9EZ Shrub End 51.86994700 0.87122700
CO2 9FA Shrub End 51.86637800 0.88586100
CO2 9FB Berechurch 51.86207100 0.89360300
CO2 9FD Shrub End 51.86779000 0.87706100
CO2 9FE Berechurch 51.86152000 0.89616800
CO2 9FF Berechurch 51.86141700 0.89414300
CO2 9FG Berechurch 51.86101200 0.89416000
CO2 9FH Berechurch 51.86063600 0.89737500
CO2 9FJ Berechurch 51.86037100 0.89754700
CO2 9FL Berechurch 51.86060900 0.89627000
CO2 9FN Shrub End 51.86569400 0.88480000
CO2 9FP Shrub End 51.86459100 0.88538400
CO2 9FQ Shrub End 51.86260800 0.87539300
CO2 9FR Shrub End 51.86610500 0.88526300
CO2 9FS Shrub End 51.86521000 0.88546700
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