Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Doucecroft School is the nearest published school at 880 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO3 5NE
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 5NE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2001
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO3
- Postcode sector
- CO3 5
- Latitude
- 51.894054
- Longitude
- 0.810141
- British National Grid easting
- 593,455
- British National Grid northing
- 225,453
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
- E00110361
- 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
- 27
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 5
- 880 m
Doucecroft School
Other independent special school
- 931 m
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Eight Ash Green and Aldham
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Lakelands Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 454
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 158
- Shoplifting 115
- Other theft 40
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Vehicle crime 28
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
TOLLGATE HEALTH CENTRE
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
1.6 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
2.4 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Turkey Cock Lane
BCT · Fordham Heath
- 0.4 miles
Turkey Cock Lane
BCT · Fordham Heath
- 0.4 miles
Wood Corner
BCT · Fordham Heath
- 0.4 miles
Wood Corner
BCT · Fordham Heath
- 0.4 miles
Beech Grove
BCT · Fordham Heath
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
454 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 158 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.