Property market
The five-year median is £485,000 from 11 recorded sales in CO4 9FF. 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 9FF
Highwoods · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- Ward
- Highwoods
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester
- Postcode district
- CO4
- Postcode sector
- CO4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO4 9FF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO4
- Postcode sector
- CO4 9
- Latitude
- 51.919042
- Longitude
- 0.918155
- British National Grid easting
- 600,774
- British National Grid northing
- 228,524
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Highwoods · E05010830
- Parish or community
- E04012280
- Westminster constituency
- Colchester · E14001176
- Output area
- E00176410
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 002G · E01033721
- 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
Property
158 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 70, Gavin Way, Highwoods, Colchester, CO4 9FF | 31 March 2026 | £500,000 |
| 73, Gavin Way, Highwoods, Colchester, CO4 9FF | 20 March 2025 | £430,000 |
| 49, Gavin Way, Highwoods, Colchester, CO4 9FF | 22 November 2024 | £485,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 7
- 347 m
The Trinity School
Free schools
- 363 m
Brinkley Grove Primary School
Foundation school
- 377 m
The Gilberd School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,710
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 781
- Criminal damage and arson 156
- Public order 142
- Shoplifting 141
- Anti social behaviour 116
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 189
- Postcode households
- 60
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- CO4 9 residents
- 9,273
98 female, 91 male
Age bands in CO4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.4%
2,001 residents
1,092 residents
3,073 residents
2,540 residents
1,120 residents
This postcode contained 2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO4 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.
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
10
within 5 km
BLUEBELL SURGERY
BLUEBELL RESOURCE CENTRE, JACK ANDREWS DRIVE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9YN
ODS code F81746
385 m
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
884 m
MILL ROAD SURGERY
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
1.7 km
TURNER ROAD SURGERY
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
1.7 km
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
3.3 km
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
3.3 km
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
3.8 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
4.5 km
THE ARDLEIGH SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, DEDHAM ROAD, ARDLEIGH, COLCHESTER, CO7 7LD
ODS code F81044
4.7 km
ABBEY FIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
4.8 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
Newcomen Way
BCT · Colchester
- 0.1 miles
Newcomen Way
BCT · Colchester
- 0.2 miles
Julian Avenue
BCT · Mile End
- 0.2 miles
Oyster Business Park
BCT · Colchester
- 0.2 miles
Julian Avenue
BCT · Mile End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 002G, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,106 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Trinity School is the nearest published school at 347 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,710 published events cover 12 months, averaging 142.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 781 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.