Lexden and Braiswick · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Choats Wood, Fordham Heath, Colchester, CO3 9UY | 27 July 2018 | £620,000 |
| 1, Choats Wood, Fordham Heath, Colchester, CO3 9UY | 20 August 2010 | £375,000 |
| 6, Choats Wood, Fordham Heath, Colchester, CO3 9UY | 20 October 2006 | £402,500 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Eight Ash Green and Aldham
Academy converter
Doucecroft School
Other independent special school
Fordham All Saints CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
10 female, 7 male
909 residents
569 residents
1,219 residents
1,355 residents
981 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO3 9 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
3
within 5 km
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
1.9 km
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
2.6 km
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
4.0 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.
Beech Grove
BCT · Fordham Heath
Wood Corner
BCT · Fordham Heath
Wood Corner
BCT · Fordham Heath
Wood Lane
BCT · Fordham Heath
Beech Grove
BCT · Fordham Heath
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
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.
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.
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.
27 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Eight Ash Green and Aldham is the nearest published school at 289 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
265 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 93 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.