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 800-850 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 9FT Berechurch 51.86155600 0.89689700
CO2 9FU Shrub End 51.86254100 0.87373200
CO2 9FW Berechurch 51.86119500 0.89841300
CO2 9FX Berechurch 51.86241700 0.89807100
CO2 9FY Berechurch 51.86200700 0.89466000
CO2 9FZ Berechurch 51.86249600 0.89636200
CO2 9GB Shrub End 51.86789800 0.87632700
CO2 9GD Shrub End 51.86791900 0.87547100
CO2 9GE Shrub End 51.86293500 0.87406300
CO2 9GF Shrub End 51.86780800 0.87889200
CO2 9GG Shrub End 51.86886500 0.87611200
CO2 9GH Shrub End 51.86831800 0.87604800
CO2 9GJ Shrub End 51.86850100 0.87742600
CO2 9GL Shrub End 51.86904300 0.87695200
CO2 9GN Shrub End 51.86874700 0.87652600
CO2 9GP Berechurch 51.86287400 0.89522400
CO2 9GQ Berechurch 51.86285000 0.89400200
CO2 9GR Shrub End 51.86277700 0.87499700
CO2 9GS Shrub End 51.86715100 0.86724200
CO2 9GT Shrub End 51.86819600 0.86568100
CO2 9GU Shrub End 51.86774700 0.86566700
CO2 9GY Shrub End 51.86718300 0.86592200
CO2 9GZ Shrub End 51.86669700 0.86703900
CO2 9HA Shrub End 51.87047900 0.87191500
CO2 9HB Shrub End 51.87115700 0.87065100
CO2 9HD Shrub End 51.87169900 0.86946500
CO2 9HE Shrub End 51.87049200 0.87297500
CO2 9HF Shrub End 51.86797200 0.87769700
CO2 9HG Shrub End 51.87143000 0.87137900
CO2 9HH Shrub End 51.87115600 0.87191400
CO2 9HJ Shrub End 51.87172600 0.87091900
CO2 9HL Shrub End 51.87097500 0.87297800
CO2 9HN Shrub End 51.87005300 0.87390700
CO2 9HP Shrub End 51.86891800 0.87361700
CO2 9HQ Shrub End 51.87092700 0.87248000
CO2 9HR Shrub End 51.87014500 0.87455200
CO2 9HS Shrub End 51.86787100 0.87339000
CO2 9HT Shrub End 51.86599900 0.87454900
CO2 9HU Shrub End 51.86620400 0.87610200
CO2 9HW Shrub End 51.86898100 0.87469600
CO2 9HX Shrub End 51.86727200 0.87692600
CO2 9HY Shrub End 51.86658200 0.87496400
CO2 9HZ Shrub End 51.86718000 0.87551100
CO2 9JG Shrub End 51.87086700 0.87775100
CO2 9JH Shrub End 51.87047100 0.87702800
CO2 9JJ Shrub End 51.86946500 0.86150600
CO2 9JN Shrub End 51.86917100 0.86283900
CO2 9JP Shrub End 51.86764600 0.89037300
CO2 9JQ Shrub End 51.86994700 0.87714000
CO2 9JR Shrub End 51.87180100 0.86270100
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