Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Trinity School is the nearest published school at 137 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO4 4FN
Highwoods · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Highwoods
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester
- Postcode district
- CO4
- Postcode sector
- CO4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO4 4FN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 2001
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO4
- Postcode sector
- CO4 4
- Latitude
- 51.917127
- Longitude
- 0.917783
- British National Grid easting
- 600,757
- British National Grid northing
- 228,310
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Highwoods · E05010830
- Parish or community
- E43000228
- Westminster constituency
- Colchester · E14001176
- Output area
- E00110070
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 002F · E01033720
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 002 · E02004507
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 7
- 137 m
The Trinity School
Free schools
- 163 m
The Gilberd School
Academy converter
- 171 m
Brinkley Grove Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,730
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 791
- Criminal damage and arson 157
- Public order 141
- Shoplifting 131
- Anti social behaviour 131
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
9
within 5 km straight-line
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
672 m
TURNER ROAD SURGERY
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
1.5 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
1.6 km
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
3.1 km
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
3.1 km
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
3.6 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
4.3 km
ABBEY FIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
4.6 km
THE ARDLEIGH SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, DEDHAM ROAD, ARDLEIGH, COLCHESTER, CO7 7LD
ODS code F81044
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Gilberd School
BCT · Highwoods
- 0.2 miles
Gilberd School
BCT · Highwoods
- 0.2 miles
Langdale Drive
BCT · Highwoods
- 0.2 miles
Oyster Business Park
BCT · Colchester
- 0.2 miles
Newcomen Way
BCT · Colchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 002F, 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
21,496 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
1,730 published events cover 12 months, averaging 144.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 791 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.