Property market
The five-year median is £515,000 from 12 recorded sales in CO6 1FY. 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.
CO6 1FY
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
- CO6
- Postcode sector
- CO6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO6 1FY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO6
- Postcode sector
- CO6 1
- Latitude
- 51.880774
- Longitude
- 0.806610
- British National Grid easting
- 593,269
- British National Grid northing
- 223,967
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
- E00109993
- 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 CO6
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Pits Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1FY | 25 September 2025 | £725,000 |
| 4, Pits Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1FY | 12 September 2025 | £480,000 |
| 8, Pits Road, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1FY | 30 June 2025 | £515,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.3 km
Copford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.8 km
Doucecroft School
Other independent special school
- 1.8 km
Lakelands Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 368
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 128
- Shoplifting 80
- Anti social behaviour 30
- Vehicle crime 28
- Other theft 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO6 1 residents
- 9,750
Age bands in CO6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.4%
1,498 residents
934 residents
1,932 residents
2,892 residents
2,467 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.
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+
- 89.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 89.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 89.5%
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
TOLLGATE HEALTH CENTRE
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
1.7 km
WINSTREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
2.5 km
AMBROSE AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Westbury Close
BCT · Copford
- 0.2 miles
Westbury Close
BCT · Copford
- 0.2 miles
The Swan Stanway
BCT · Stanway
- 0.2 miles
The Swan Stanway
BCT · Stanway
- 0.2 miles
Sparrow Hall
BCT · Stanway
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.
Evidence in context
Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 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
368 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 128 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.