Property market
The five-year median is £12,500,000 from 1 recorded sale in CO4 3BQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Colchester is £298,003 in June 2026, down 0.3% year on year.
CO4 3BQ
St Anne's and St John's · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester
- Postcode district
- CO4
- Postcode sector
- CO4 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO4 3BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 March 2009
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO4
- Postcode sector
- CO4 3
- Latitude
- 51.893475
- Longitude
- 0.918807
- British National Grid easting
- 600,933
- British National Grid northing
- 225,683
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- St Anne's and St John's · E05010839
- Parish or community
- E43000228
- Westminster constituency
- Colchester · E14001176
- Output area
- E00110254
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 022F · E01021704
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 022 · E02006922
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 CO4
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Waitrose Colchester, St Andrews Gardens, Colchester, CO4 3BQ | 20 December 2024 | £12,500,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 10
- 518 m
St James the Great Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 576 m
Willow Brook Primary School and Nursery
Academy sponsor led
- 850 m
St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Colchester
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,152
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,573
- Shoplifting 894
- Anti social behaviour 474
- Public order 436
- Criminal damage and arson 363
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO4 3 residents
- 16,753
Age bands in CO4 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 27.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.4%
2,466 residents
4,587 residents
3,618 residents
3,419 residents
2,566 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.
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
755 m
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
755 m
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
1.8 km
TURNER ROAD SURGERY
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
1.8 km
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
2.0 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
2.2 km
ABBEY FIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
2.3 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
2.6 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
4.1 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Orchard Gardens
BCT · Colchester
- 0.0 miles
Orchard Gardens
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
St Andrews Gardens
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
St Andrews Gardens
BCT · Colchester
- 0.2 miles
Fairfield Gardens
BCT · Colchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 022F, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,911 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 10 secondary schools. St James the Great Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 518 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,152 published events cover 12 months, averaging 512.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,573 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.