Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 5 secondary schools. Doucecroft School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO3 8PD
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO3 8PD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO3
- Postcode sector
- CO3 8
- Latitude
- 51.888451
- Longitude
- 0.805228
- British National Grid easting
- 593,141
- British National Grid northing
- 224,817
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
- E00110363
- 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
- 24
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.3 km
Doucecroft School
Other independent special school
- 1.6 km
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Eight Ash Green and Aldham
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Copford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 345
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 116
- Shoplifting 78
- Other theft 32
- Vehicle crime 30
- Anti social behaviour 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO3 8 residents
- 3,763
Age bands in CO3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 27.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 17.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 4.4%
1,036 residents
388 residents
1,504 residents
646 residents
163 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+
- 0%
- 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
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
TOLLGATE HEALTH CENTRE
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
1.7 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
2.6 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
The Swan Stanway
BCT · Stanway
- 0.5 miles
Sparrow Hall
BCT · Stanway
- 0.5 miles
The Swan Stanway
BCT · Stanway
- 0.5 miles
Westbury Close
BCT · Copford
- 0.5 miles
Westbury Close
BCT · Copford
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.
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
345 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 116 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.