Property market
The five-year median is £325,000 from 3 recorded sales in CO5 7HY. 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 7HY
Old Heath and The Hythe · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- 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 7HY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 7
- Latitude
- 51.855923
- Longitude
- 0.938073
- British National Grid easting
- 602,427
- British National Grid northing
- 221,561
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Old Heath and The Hythe · E05010836
- Parish or community
- E04003985
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00110008
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 016B · E01021658
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 016 · E02004521
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
74 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 81, Rectory Road, Rowhedge, Colchester, CO5 7HY | 8 June 2022 | £375,000 |
| Carleton Court, Flat 6, Rectory Road, Rowhedge, Colchester, CO5 7HY | 28 February 2022 | £175,000 |
| 66, Rectory Road, Rowhedge, Colchester, CO5 7HY | 22 December 2021 | £325,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 3
- 334 m
St Lawrence Church of England Primary School, Rowhedge
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.3 km
Fingringhoe Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.8 km
Old Heath Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 360
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 124
- Shoplifting 107
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Public order 23
- Anti social behaviour 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 128
- Postcode households
- 53
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- CO5 7 residents
- 5,109
66 female, 62 male
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
This postcode contained 2.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO5 7 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+
- 98.1%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 98.1%
- Gigabit-capable
- 98.1%
- 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
7
within 5 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
521 m
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
1.6 km
ABBEY FIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
3.6 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
4.3 km
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
4.3 km
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
4.3 km
BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Rowhedge
BCT · Rowhedge
- 0.0 miles
Rowhedge
BCT · Rowhedge
- 0.1 miles
Heath Road Turn
BCT · Rowhedge
- 0.1 miles
Heath Road Turn
BCT · Rowhedge
- 0.3 miles
Taylor's Road
BCT · Rowhedge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 016B, 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
9,266 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
35 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Lawrence Church of England Primary School, Rowhedge is the nearest published school at 334 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
360 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 124 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.