Old Heath and The Hythe · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Fingringhoe Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
St Lawrence Church of England Primary School, Rowhedge
Voluntary controlled school
Broomgrove Infant School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
5 female, 5 male
752 residents
455 residents
1,151 residents
1,506 residents
1,208 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% 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.
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.
6
within 5 km
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
856 m
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
1.5 km
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
4.2 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
4.9 km
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
4.9 km
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
4.9 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.
Rowhedge
BCT · Rowhedge
Rowhedge
BCT · Rowhedge
The Whalebone
BCT · Fingringhoe
The Whalebone
BCT · Fingringhoe
Heath Road Turn
BCT · Rowhedge
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
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.
22 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. Fingringhoe Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School is the nearest published school at 620 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
147 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 62 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.