Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 9 secondary schools. Kings Ford Academy is the nearest published school at 598 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO2 7TX
Shrub End · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shrub End
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester
- Postcode district
- CO2
- Postcode sector
- CO2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO2 7TX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO2
- Postcode sector
- CO2 7
- Latitude
- 51.872877
- Longitude
- 0.885027
- British National Grid easting
- 598,700
- British National Grid northing
- 223,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Shrub End · E05010840
- Parish or community
- E43000228
- Westminster constituency
- Colchester · E14001176
- Output area
- E00188107
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 013D · E01021717
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 013 · E02004518
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 CO2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 9
- 598 m
Kings Ford Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 598 m
King's Ford Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 772 m
Montgomery Primary School, Colchester
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,117
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 917
- Shoplifting 207
- Vehicle crime 205
- Public order 161
- Anti social behaviour 145
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO2 7 residents
- 11,716
Age bands in CO2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.8%
2,609 residents
1,436 residents
4,473 residents
2,771 residents
1,368 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
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
1.1 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
1.8 km
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
1.8 km
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
2.5 km
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
2.5 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
3.2 km
TURNER ROAD SURGERY
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
4.0 km
TOLLGATE HEALTH CENTRE
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
4.1 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
4.5 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
4.5 km
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Rainsborowe Road
BCT · Colchester
- 0.2 miles
Rainsborowe Road
BCT · Colchester
- 0.2 miles
Beechwood Close
BCT · St Michaels
- 0.2 miles
Earlswood Way
BCT · St Michaels
- 0.3 miles
Boadicea Way South
BCT · Shrub End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 013D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,492 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
2,117 published events cover 12 months, averaging 176.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 917 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.