Property market
The five-year median is £273,000 from 1 recorded sale in CO5 9TU. 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 9TU
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 9TU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO5
- Postcode sector
- CO5 9
- Latitude
- 51.838081
- Longitude
- 0.753329
- British National Grid easting
- 589,782
- British National Grid northing
- 219,080
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
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Lodge Road, Messing, Colchester, CO5 9TU | 5 May 2022 | £273,000 |
| Maker Cottage, Lodge Road, Messing, Colchester, CO5 9TU | 30 September 2016 | £689,000 |
| 6, Lodge Road, Messing, Colchester, CO5 9TU | 31 March 2016 | £370,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 715 m
Messing Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.1 km
Thurstable School
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
Baynards Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 3
- Other theft 3
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- CO5 9 residents
- 6,562
21 female, 16 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 0.6% 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 23.8%
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
TIPTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
CHURCH ROAD, TIPTREE, COLCHESTER, CO5 0HB
ODS code F81133
3.1 km
KELVEDON & FEERING HEALTH CENTRE
46 HIGH STREET, KELVEDON, COLCHESTER, CO5 9AG
ODS code F81011
3.9 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Street
BCT · Messing
- 0.2 miles
The Street
BCT · Messing
- 0.7 miles
Harborough Hall Rd
BCT · Messing
- 0.7 miles
Harborough Hall Rd
BCT · Messing
- 1.2 miles
Colchester 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
- 6
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 6
- 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
11 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Messing Primary School is the nearest published school at 715 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.