Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 11 secondary schools. St. George's School is the nearest published school at 548 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO2 8TU
Old Heath and The Hythe · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex
- Postcode district
- CO2
- Postcode sector
- CO2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO2 8TU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO2
- Postcode sector
- CO2 8
- Latitude
- 51.874782
- Longitude
- 0.908833
- British National Grid easting
- 600,330
- British National Grid northing
- 223,577
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Old Heath and The Hythe · E05010836
- Parish or community
- E43000228
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00110047
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 016D · E01021665
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 016 · E02004521
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
- 64
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 11
- 548 m
St. George's School
Community school
- 762 m
Monkwick Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 774 m
The Thomas Lord Audley School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,721
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,731
- Anti social behaviour 318
- Shoplifting 288
- Public order 259
- Criminal damage and arson 252
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- CO2 8 residents
- 14,377
10 female, 3 male
Age bands in CO2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 23.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.3%
2,504 residents
3,426 residents
3,880 residents
3,060 residents
1,804 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO2 8 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
ABBEY FIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
767 m
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
1.4 km
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
1.7 km
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
1.7 km
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
1.7 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
3.1 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
3.2 km
TURNER ROAD SURGERY
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
3.6 km
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
4.1 km
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
4.2 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
4.3 km
BLUEBELL SURGERY
BLUEBELL RESOURCE CENTRE, JACK ANDREWS DRIVE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9YN
ODS code F81746
4.7 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Normandy Avenue
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Normandy Avenue
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Cemetery Gates
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Cemetery Gates
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Crematorium
BCT · Colchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 016D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,961 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Recorded crime
3,721 published events cover 12 months, averaging 310.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,731 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.