Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 7 secondary schools. Doucecroft School is the nearest published school at 272 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO3 5JU
Lexden and Braiswick · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lexden and Braiswick
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex
- Postcode district
- CO3
- Postcode sector
- CO3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO3 5JU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2001
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO3
- Postcode sector
- CO3 5
- Latitude
- 51.893360
- Longitude
- 0.826727
- British National Grid easting
- 594,599
- British National Grid northing
- 225,420
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Lexden and Braiswick · E05010831
- Parish or community
- E04003987
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00110362
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 003D · E01021730
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 003 · E02004508
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 CO3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 7
- 272 m
Doucecroft School
Other independent special school
- 1.2 km
Stanway Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Holmwood House School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 976
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 382
- Shoplifting 155
- Anti social behaviour 90
- Criminal damage and arson 74
- Other theft 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
TOLLGATE HEALTH CENTRE
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
859 m
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
1.5 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
2.9 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
4.7 km
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Holiday Inn
BCT · Eight Ash Green
- 0.1 miles
Holiday Inn
BCT · Eight Ash Green
- 0.2 miles
Warren Farm
BCT · Lexden
- 0.2 miles
Warren Farm
BCT · Lexden
- 0.3 miles
The Walk
BCT · Eight Ash Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 003D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,358 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
976 published events cover 12 months, averaging 81.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 382 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.