Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Mersea Island School is the nearest published school at 1.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO5 8TB
Mersea and Pyefleet · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Mersea and Pyefleet
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO5 8TB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 8
- Latitude
- 51.790117
- Longitude
- 0.958056
- British National Grid easting
- 604,100
- British National Grid northing
- 214,300
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
- E04003986
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00110194
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 019D · E01021694
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.1 km
Mersea Island School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 40
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Other theft 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO5 8 residents
- 7,515
Age bands in CO5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 36.1%
841 residents
646 residents
1,159 residents
2,157 residents
2,709 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
WEST MERSEA SURGERY
32 KINGSLAND ROAD, WEST MERSEA, COLCHESTER, CO5 8RA
ODS code F81012
3.0 km
COLNE MEDICAL CENTRE
40 STATION ROAD, BRIGHTLINGSEA, COLCHESTER, CO7 0DT
ODS code F81116
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Meeting Lane
BCT · East Mersea
- 0.2 miles
Meeting Lane
BCT · East Mersea
- 0.5 miles
Church Lane
BCT · East Mersea
- 0.5 miles
Church Lane
BCT · East Mersea
- 0.9 miles
Waldegraves Caravan Park
BCT · West Mersea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 019D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,024 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
40 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.