Property market
The five-year median is £690,000 from 1 recorded sale in CO5 9HE. 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 9HE
Marks Tey and Layer · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- Ward
- Marks Tey and Layer
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO5 9HE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 9
- Latitude
- 51.860074
- Longitude
- 0.789430
- British National Grid easting
- 592,175
- British National Grid northing
- 221,620
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Marks Tey and Layer · E05010832
- Parish or community
- E04003983
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00109992
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 010G · E01035160
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 010 · E02004515
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Firs, Easthorpe Road, Easthorpe, Colchester, CO5 9HE | 23 September 2025 | £690,000 |
| Shernwood, Easthorpe Road, Easthorpe, Colchester, CO5 9HE | 31 January 2020 | £950,000 |
| Doe Cottage, Easthorpe Road, Easthorpe, Colchester, CO5 9HE | 29 June 1998 | £124,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Copford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.6 km
St Andrew's Church of England Primary Academy, Marks Tey
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Birch Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 3
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Public order 2
- Vehicle crime 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- CO5 9 residents
- 6,562
12 female, 14 male
Age bands in CO5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
1,054 residents
673 residents
1,415 residents
1,957 residents
1,479 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO5 9 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+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 90%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90%
- 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
2
within 5 km
TOLLGATE HEALTH CENTRE
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
4.0 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
4.5 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
- 0.6 miles
Well Ln
BCT · Easthorpe
- 0.6 miles
Well Ln
BCT · Easthorpe
- 0.7 miles
Copford Green
BCT · Copford
- 0.7 miles
Copford Green
BCT · Copford
- 0.9 miles
Hardys Green
BCT · Birch
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 010G, 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
24,013 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 2
- 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
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Copford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.