Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Cherry Tree Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Berechurch · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Cherry Tree Academy
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Langenhoe Community Primary School
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Monkwick Junior School
Academy sponsor led
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
777 residents
399 residents
985 residents
1,368 residents
1,031 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
8
within 5 km straight-line
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
3.2 km
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
3.5 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
4.0 km
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
4.2 km
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
4.6 km
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
4.7 km
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
4.9 km
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
4.9 km
Roman Hill House
BCT · Blackheath
Roman Hill House
BCT · Blackheath
Weir Lane
BCT · Blackheath
Weir Lane
BCT · Blackheath
The Cherry Tree
BCT · Blackheath
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 016B, 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
9,266 of 33,755
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.
32 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Cherry Tree Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
256 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 124 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.