Property market
The five-year median is £647,500 from 2 recorded sales in CO5 7FF. 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.
CO5 7FF
Mersea and Pyefleet · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- Ward
- Mersea and Pyefleet
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO5 7FF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 7
- Latitude
- 51.831193
- Longitude
- 0.908272
- British National Grid easting
- 600,485
- British National Grid northing
- 218,729
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Mersea and Pyefleet · E05010833
- Parish or community
- E04003978
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00110193
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 019E · E01021695
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 019 · E02004524
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Estuary Meadow, Abberton, Colchester, CO5 7FF | 30 January 2026 | £600,000 |
| 2, Estuary Meadow, Abberton, Colchester, CO5 7FF | 16 December 2025 | £695,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 114 m
Langenhoe Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Cherry Tree Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 3.0 km
Fingringhoe Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 35
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 16
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 4
- Public order 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO5 7 residents
- 5,109
Age bands in CO5 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.8%
752 residents
455 residents
1,151 residents
1,506 residents
1,208 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
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
3.9 km
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
4.6 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
- 0.2 miles
Butterfly Lodge
BCT · Langenhoe
- 0.2 miles
Butterfly Lodge
BCT · Langenhoe
- 0.2 miles
Mersea Rd
BCT · Abberton
- 0.2 miles
Mersea Rd
BCT · Abberton
- 0.2 miles
Layer Road
BCT · Abberton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 019E, 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
24,032 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Langenhoe Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 114 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
35 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 16 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.