Highwoods · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Colchester
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Census 2021
62 female, 37 male
2,001 residents
1,092 residents
3,073 residents
2,540 residents
1,120 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% 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.
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.
10
within 5 km
BLUEBELL RESOURCE CENTRE, JACK ANDREWS DRIVE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9YN
ODS code F81746
431 m
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
509 m
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
1.7 km
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
2.0 km
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
2.8 km
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
2.8 km
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
3.5 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
4.1 km
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
4.4 km
DOCTORS SURGERY, DEDHAM ROAD, ARDLEIGH, COLCHESTER, CO7 7LD
ODS code F81044
4.4 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.
Berkley Close
BCT · Highwoods
Berkley Close
BCT · Highwoods
Derwent Road
BCT · Highwoods
Derwent Road
BCT · Highwoods
Bilsdale Close
BCT · Colchester
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 002C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,411 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.
42 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 7 secondary schools. St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Colchester is the nearest published school at 417 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,215 published events cover 12 months, averaging 101.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 544 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.