Rural North · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Heathlands Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, West Bergholt
Voluntary controlled school
The Bishop William Ward Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Fordham All Saints CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
3 female, 3 male
976 residents
499 residents
1,206 residents
1,714 residents
1,633 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO6 4 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
47 MILL ROAD, MILE END, COLCHESTER, CO4 5LE
ODS code F81636
4.2 km
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, TURNER ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO4 5JR
ODS code Y02646
4.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Hall Road Cottages
BCT · West Bergholt
Hall Road Cottages
BCT · West Bergholt
The Crescent
BCT · West Bergholt
The Crescent
BCT · West Bergholt
Hall Road
BCT · West Bergholt
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 003A, 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
22,396 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 0 secondary schools. Heathlands Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, West Bergholt is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
14 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.