Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Messing Primary School is the nearest published school at 277 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO5 9TD
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 9TD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 9
- Latitude
- 51.832192
- Longitude
- 0.743650
- British National Grid easting
- 589,140
- British National Grid northing
- 218,400
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
- E04004000
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00109945
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 019A · E01021643
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| New Cottage, Messing Park, Messing, Colchester, CO5 9TD | 24 June 2016 | £420,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 277 m
Messing Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Baynards Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Thurstable School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 149
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 70
- Other theft 15
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Criminal damage and arson 14
- Burglary 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- CO5 9 residents
- 6,562
4 female, 1 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 0.1% 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
TIPTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
CHURCH ROAD, TIPTREE, COLCHESTER, CO5 0HB
ODS code F81133
2.5 km
KELVEDON & FEERING HEALTH CENTRE
46 HIGH STREET, KELVEDON, COLCHESTER, CO5 9AG
ODS code F81011
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
The Street
BCT · Messing
- 0.5 miles
The Street
BCT · Messing
- 0.8 miles
Colchester Road
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.8 miles
Colchester Road
BCT · Tiptree
- 0.8 miles
Oak Road
BCT · Tiptree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 019A, 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
26,107 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
149 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 70 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.