Property market
The five-year median is £180,000 from 11 recorded sales in CO2 7UH. 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.
CO2 7UH
Shrub End · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Colchester
- 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 7UH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2008
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO2
- Postcode sector
- CO2 7
- Latitude
- 51.877819
- Longitude
- 0.896169
- British National Grid easting
- 599,445
- British National Grid northing
- 223,880
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
- E00176427
- 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
Property
68 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Benedict House, Flat 23, Circular Road South, Colchester, CO2 7UH | 13 February 2025 | £115,500 |
| Benedict House, Flat 2, Circular Road South, Colchester, CO2 7UH | 31 January 2025 | £185,000 |
| Benedict House, Flat 2, Circular Road South, Colchester, CO2 7UH | 8 February 2023 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 11
- 794 m
Hamilton Primary School
Community school
- 885 m
St. George's School
Community school
- 974 m
St John's Green Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,252
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,275
- Shoplifting 653
- Anti social behaviour 405
- Public order 397
- Criminal damage and arson 316
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- CO2 7 residents
- 11,716
19 female, 22 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO2 7 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
ABBEY FIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
171 m
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
511 m
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
1.1 km
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
1.6 km
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
1.6 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
2.3 km
TURNER ROAD SURGERY
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
3.3 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
3.8 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
3.9 km
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
4.0 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
4.0 km
TOLLGATE HEALTH CENTRE
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
4.6 km
BLUEBELL SURGERY
BLUEBELL RESOURCE CENTRE, JACK ANDREWS DRIVE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9YN
ODS code F81746
4.7 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
Abbey Field
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Ypres Road
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Abbey Field
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Ypres Road
BCT · Colchester
- 0.2 miles
Goojerat Road
BCT · Colchester
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.
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
64 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 11 secondary schools. Hamilton Primary School is the nearest published school at 794 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,252 published events cover 12 months, averaging 437.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,275 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.