Property market
The five-year median is £415,000 from 4 recorded sales in CO4 5PE. 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 5PE
Rural North · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- Ward
- Rural North
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex
- Postcode district
- CO4
- Postcode sector
- CO4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO4 5PE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO4
- Postcode sector
- CO4 5
- Latitude
- 51.946676
- Longitude
- 0.950060
- British National Grid easting
- 602,843
- British National Grid northing
- 231,685
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Rural North · E05010838
- Parish or community
- E04003994
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00110006
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 001A · E01021655
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 001 · E02004506
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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| St Margarets Cross, 14, Wick Road, Langham, Colchester, CO4 5PE | 21 November 2025 | £465,000 |
| Benton, Wick Road, Langham, Colchester, CO4 5PE | 27 June 2025 | £375,000 |
| Squirrels, Wick Road, Langham, Colchester, CO4 5PE | 24 April 2023 | £455,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 192 m
Langham Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 710 m
Langham Oaks
Academy special sponsor led
- 2.5 km
Boxted St Peter's Church of England School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 86
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 47
- Other theft 8
- Public order 8
- Vehicle crime 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 51
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- CO4 5 residents
- 16,558
24 female, 27 male
Age bands in CO4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.9%
3,406 residents
1,796 residents
5,580 residents
4,095 residents
2,006 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO4 5 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
THE ARDLEIGH SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, DEDHAM ROAD, ARDLEIGH, COLCHESTER, CO7 7LD
ODS code F81044
3.3 km
BLUEBELL SURGERY
BLUEBELL RESOURCE CENTRE, JACK ANDREWS DRIVE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9YN
ODS code F81746
3.9 km
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
4.5 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Birchwood Road
BCT · Langham
- 0.1 miles
St Margaret's Cross
BCT · Langham
- 0.1 miles
St Margaret's Cross
BCT · Langham
- 0.1 miles
Birchwood Road
BCT · Langham
- 0.4 miles
School
BCT · Langham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 001A, 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
22,528 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 2
- 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
Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Langham Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 192 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
86 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 47 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.