Property market
The five-year median is £170,000 from 5 recorded sales in CO6 2PU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Braintree is £330,637 in June 2026, up 2.0% year on year.
CO6 2PU
The Colnes · Braintree · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- Ward
- The Colnes
- Local authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham
- Postcode district
- CO6
- Postcode sector
- CO6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO6 2PU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO6
- Postcode sector
- CO6 2
- Latitude
- 51.927677
- Longitude
- 0.701573
- British National Grid easting
- 585,847
- British National Grid northing
- 228,909
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Braintree · E07000067
- Electoral ward
- The Colnes · E05010384
- Parish or community
- E04003893
- Westminster constituency
- Witham · E14001590
- Output area
- E00108766
- Lower layer super output area
- Braintree 006C · E01021408
- Middle layer super output area
- Braintree 006 · E02004451
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
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Oxford Place, Earls Colne, Colchester, CO6 2PU | 19 March 2026 | £70,000 |
| 8, Oxford Place, Earls Colne, Colchester, CO6 2PU | 23 July 2025 | £156,000 |
| 4, Oxford Place, Earls Colne, Colchester, CO6 2PU | 21 April 2023 | £182,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 266 m
Earls Colne Primary School and Nursery
Foundation school
- 1.8 km
Colne Engaine Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.7 km
Chappel CofE Controlled Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 142
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 79
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Public order 10
- Other crime 7
- Other theft 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- CO6 2 residents
- 6,569
12 female, 12 male
Age bands in CO6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.7%
1,079 residents
607 residents
1,319 residents
1,962 residents
1,540 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO6 2 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
THE PUMP HOUSE SURGERY
NONANCOURT WAY, EARLS COLNE, COLCHESTER, CO6 2SW
ODS code F81119
451 m
THE ELIZABETH COURTAULD SURGERY
FACTORY LANE WEST, HALSTEAD, CO9 1EX
ODS code F81068
4.6 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Temperance Yard
BCT · Earls Colne
- 0.1 miles
Temperance Yard
BCT · Earls Colne
- 0.1 miles
The Lion
BCT · Earls Colne
- 0.1 miles
The Lion
BCT · Earls Colne
- 0.2 miles
Church Hill
BCT · Earls Colne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Braintree 006C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,173 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 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
Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Earls Colne Primary School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 266 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
142 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 79 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.