Schools
61 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 11 secondary schools. St. George's School is the nearest published school at 486 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO1 2AL
New Town and Christ Church · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester
- Postcode district
- CO1
- Postcode sector
- CO1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO1 2AL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO1
- Postcode sector
- CO1 2
- Latitude
- 51.884014
- Longitude
- 0.907541
- British National Grid easting
- 600,200
- British National Grid northing
- 224,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- New Town and Christ Church · E05010835
- Parish or community
- E43000228
- Westminster constituency
- Colchester · E14001176
- Output area
- E00188144
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 011H · E01035162
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 011 · E02004516
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CO1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 61
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 11
- 486 m
St. George's School
Community school
- 585 m
St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Colchester
Academy converter
- 644 m
St John's Green Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,491
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,839
- Shoplifting 752
- Anti social behaviour 519
- Public order 469
- Criminal damage and arson 403
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO1 2 residents
- 12,341
Age bands in CO1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.9%
2,380 residents
1,833 residents
3,998 residents
2,867 residents
1,490 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
12
within 5 km straight-line
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
682 m
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
682 m
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
944 m
ABBEY FIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
951 m
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
1.1 km
TURNER ROAD SURGERY
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
2.6 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
3.1 km
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
3.1 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
3.3 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
3.9 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
4.5 km
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Mill Street
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Lookers Garage
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Military Road
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Military Road
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Sportsman's Club
BCT · Colchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 011H, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,129 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6,491 published events cover 12 months, averaging 540.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,839 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.