Schools
49 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 8 secondary schools. Paxman Academy is the nearest published school at 237 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO2 9SE
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO2 9SE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO2
- Postcode sector
- CO2 9
- Latitude
- 51.872348
- Longitude
- 0.872483
- British National Grid easting
- 597,839
- British National Grid northing
- 223,207
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
- E00110286
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 015A · E01021711
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 015 · E02004520
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
- 49
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 8
- 237 m
Paxman Academy
Free schools
- 284 m
Kings Ford Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 284 m
King's Ford Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,551
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 661
- Vehicle crime 174
- Shoplifting 147
- Public order 104
- Other theft 101
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO2 9 residents
- 10,204
Age bands in CO2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 25%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.8%
2,513 residents
1,235 residents
3,476 residents
1,943 residents
890 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.
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
10
within 5 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
1.1 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
1.7 km
ABBEY FIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
1.9 km
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
2.3 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
2.5 km
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
3.2 km
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
3.2 km
TOLLGATE HEALTH CENTRE
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
3.3 km
TURNER ROAD SURGERY
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
4.4 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
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
Iceni Way
BCT · Shrub End
- 0.1 miles
Iceni Way
BCT · Shrub End
- 0.1 miles
Alderman Blaxhill School
BCT · Shrub End
- 0.1 miles
Alderman Blaxhill School
BCT · Shrub End
- 0.2 miles
Paxman Avenue
BCT · Shrub End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 015A, 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
6,452 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,551 published events cover 12 months, averaging 129.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 661 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.