Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Baynards Primary School is the nearest published school at 667 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO5 0UF
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 0UF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 0
- Latitude
- 51.816242
- Longitude
- 0.733394
- British National Grid easting
- 588,500
- British National Grid northing
- 216,600
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
- E00110350
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 020C · E01021725
- 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
- 667 m
Baynards Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Thurstable School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Tiptree Heath Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 368
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 173
- Criminal damage and arson 34
- Anti social behaviour 32
- Other theft 30
- Public order 27
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
1.4 km
KELVEDON & FEERING HEALTH CENTRE
46 HIGH STREET, KELVEDON, COLCHESTER, CO5 9AG
ODS code F81011
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Oak Road
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.4 miles
Oak Road
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.4 miles
Baynards School
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.4 miles
Baynards School
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.5 miles
Windmill View
BCT · Tiptree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 020C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,552 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
368 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 173 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.