Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Colne Community School is the nearest published school at 958 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO7 0GG
Brightlingsea · Tendring · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Brightlingsea
- Local authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO7 0GG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 0
- Latitude
- 51.828098
- Longitude
- 1.014716
- British National Grid easting
- 607,832
- British National Grid northing
- 218,683
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Tendring · E07000076
- Electoral ward
- Brightlingsea · E05011935
- Parish or community
- E04004092
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00111661
- Lower layer super output area
- Tendring 009B · E01021983
- Middle layer super output area
- Tendring 009 · E02004581
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 CO7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 958 m
Colne Community School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Brightlingsea Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 2.7 km
Alresford Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 139
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 70
- Shoplifting 16
- Other theft 13
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Anti social behaviour 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO7 0 residents
- 8,680
Age bands in CO7 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.9%
1,288 residents
808 residents
1,664 residents
2,494 residents
2,424 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
COLNE MEDICAL CENTRE
40 STATION ROAD, BRIGHTLINGSEA, COLCHESTER, CO7 0DT
ODS code F81116
2.1 km
GREAT BENTLEY SURGERY
THE HOLLIES, THE GREEN, GREAT BENTLEY, COLCHESTER, CO7 8PJ
ODS code F81021
4.5 km
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
4.8 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
- 0.0 miles
Brightlingsea Hall
BCT · Brightlingsea
- 0.0 miles
Brightlingsea Hall
BCT · Brightlingsea
- 0.3 miles
Samsons Corner
BCT · Brightlingsea
- 0.3 miles
Samsons Corner
BCT · Brightlingsea
- 0.3 miles
Gatehouse Farm
BCT · Thorrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tendring 009B, 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
20,711 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
139 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.583 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.