Property market
The five-year median is £270,000 from 2 recorded sales in CO1 2AS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Colchester is £298,003 in June 2026, down 0.3% year on year.
CO1 2AS
New Town and Christ Church · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester
- Postcode district
- CO1
- Postcode sector
- CO1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO1 2AS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO1
- Postcode sector
- CO1 2
- Latitude
- 51.881184
- Longitude
- 0.912866
- British National Grid easting
- 600,579
- British National Grid northing
- 224,300
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
- E00110160
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 011F · E01021688
- 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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 132, Military Road, Colchester, CO1 2AS | 10 December 2025 | £295,000 |
| 128, Military Road, Colchester, CO1 2AS | 8 August 2022 | £245,000 |
| 136, Military Road, Colchester, CO1 2AS | 21 August 2019 | £195,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 61
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 10
- 333 m
St. George's School
Community school
- 678 m
Kendall Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 944 m
St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Colchester
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,297
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,749
- Shoplifting 703
- Anti social behaviour 492
- Public order 461
- Criminal damage and arson 393
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- CO1 2 residents
- 12,341
12 female, 15 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
13
within 5 km
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
1.0 km
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
1.0 km
ABBEY FIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
1.1 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
1.4 km
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
1.4 km
TURNER ROAD SURGERY
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
2.9 km
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
3.3 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
3.4 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
3.4 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
3.7 km
BLUEBELL SURGERY
BLUEBELL RESOURCE CENTRE, JACK ANDREWS DRIVE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9YN
ODS code F81746
4.0 km
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
4.3 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Garrison Church
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Recreation Ground
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Recreation Ground
BCT · Colchester
- 0.2 miles
Eagle Dr
BCT · Colchester
- 0.2 miles
Garrison Church
BCT · Colchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 011F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,383 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
61 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 10 secondary schools. St. George's School is the nearest published school at 333 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,297 published events cover 12 months, averaging 524.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,749 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.