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 850-900 of 5208 active postcodes in Colchester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CO2 9JS Shrub End 51.87009300 0.86600600
CO2 9JT Shrub End 51.86900500 0.86865300
CO2 9JU Shrub End 51.86803100 0.86902800
CO2 9JX Shrub End 51.86822000 0.89045300
CO2 9JY Shrub End 51.86620600 0.87123600
CO2 9JZ Shrub End 51.86516800 0.87063200
CO2 9LA Shrub End 51.86567600 0.87301800
CO2 9LB Shrub End 51.86992700 0.87574400
CO2 9LD Shrub End 51.86955700 0.87541600
CO2 9LG Shrub End 51.87012100 0.87885100
CO2 9LH Shrub End 51.87002600 0.88013800
CO2 9LJ Shrub End 51.86950000 0.88106300
CO2 9LN Shrub End 51.86912200 0.87958600
CO2 9LP Shrub End 51.86827000 0.87912500
CO2 9LQ Shrub End 51.86977300 0.87836400
CO2 9LR Shrub End 51.86745100 0.87807000
CO2 9LS Shrub End 51.86784300 0.88040500
CO2 9LT Shrub End 51.86931700 0.88265000
CO2 9LU Shrub End 51.86814900 0.88224100
CO2 9LW Shrub End 51.86923600 0.87798000
CO2 9LX Shrub End 51.86734300 0.88246500
CO2 9LY Shrub End 51.86873300 0.88371700
CO2 9LZ Shrub End 51.86873300 0.88041900
CO2 9NA Shrub End 51.86798700 0.88002200
CO2 9NB Shrub End 51.86924000 0.88136600
CO2 9ND Shrub End 51.86715600 0.87946100
CO2 9NE Shrub End 51.86958000 0.88327700
CO2 9NF Shrub End 51.86988300 0.88303500
CO2 9NG Shrub End 51.87076400 0.87974900
CO2 9NH Shrub End 51.87077900 0.87876200
CO2 9NJ Berechurch 51.86252100 0.89132300
CO2 9NN Berechurch 51.85986200 0.89848800
CO2 9NP Shrub End 51.86376000 0.87314200
CO2 9NQ Shrub End 51.87044800 0.87981600
CO2 9NR Shrub End 51.86082300 0.88245500
CO2 9NU Berechurch 51.85865500 0.89345700
CO2 9NW Berechurch 51.85938900 0.89065700
CO2 9NX Shrub End 51.86233600 0.87833900
CO2 9NY Shrub End 51.86320500 0.87807500
CO2 9NZ Shrub End 51.86324100 0.88140400
CO2 9PA Shrub End 51.86425100 0.88093100
CO2 9PB Shrub End 51.86342700 0.88336200
CO2 9PD Shrub End 51.86441200 0.88352700
CO2 9PE Shrub End 51.86474200 0.87888500
CO2 9PF Shrub End 51.86539600 0.87908600
CO2 9PG Shrub End 51.86343700 0.87852600
CO2 9PH Shrub End 51.86501200 0.88143000
CO2 9PJ Shrub End 51.86509500 0.88685400
CO2 9PL Shrub End 51.86409000 0.87830600
CO2 9PN Shrub End 51.86236000 0.87770200
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