Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Thurstable School is the nearest published school at 296 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO5 0EQ
Tiptree · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tiptree
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO5 0EQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1997
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 0
- Latitude
- 51.817768
- Longitude
- 0.745095
- British National Grid easting
- 589,300
- British National Grid northing
- 216,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Tiptree · E05010842
- Parish or community
- E04004005
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00110356
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 020D · E01021726
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 020 · E02004525
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 CO5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 296 m
Thurstable School
Academy converter
- 403 m
Baynards Primary School
Community school
- 453 m
Milldene Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 412
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 195
- Criminal damage and arson 38
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Vehicle crime 34
- Other theft 33
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO5 0 residents
- 10,315
Age bands in CO5 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.7%
1,511 residents
1,032 residents
2,081 residents
2,890 residents
2,742 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
TIPTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
CHURCH ROAD, TIPTREE, COLCHESTER, CO5 0HB
ODS code F81133
939 m
KELVEDON & FEERING HEALTH CENTRE
46 HIGH STREET, KELVEDON, COLCHESTER, CO5 9AG
ODS code F81011
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Barbrook Lane
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.0 miles
Windmill Green
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.0 miles
Windmill Green
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.1 miles
Underwoods Garage
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.1 miles
Thurstable School
BCT · Tiptree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 020D, 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
7,686 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
412 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 195 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.