Mersea and Pyefleet · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Brightlingsea Primary School and Nursery
Community school
Colne Community School
Academy converter
Mersea Island School
Foundation school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
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.
2
within 5 km straight-line
40 STATION ROAD, BRIGHTLINGSEA, COLCHESTER, CO7 0DT
ODS code F81116
3.4 km
32 KINGSLAND ROAD, WEST MERSEA, COLCHESTER, CO5 8RA
ODS code F81012
4.5 km
The Dog & Pheasant
BCT · East Mersea
The Dog & Pheasant
BCT · East Mersea
Fen Lane
BCT · East Mersea
Fen Lane
BCT · East Mersea
Church Lane
BCT · East Mersea
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
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.
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Brightlingsea Primary School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
34 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.