Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Colne Community School is the nearest published school at 236 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO7 0QD
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 0QD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 0
- Latitude
- 51.822689
- Longitude
- 1.021148
- British National Grid easting
- 608,300
- British National Grid northing
- 218,100
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
- E00111635
- 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
- 236 m
Colne Community School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Brightlingsea Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 3.4 km
Alresford Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 382
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 207
- Other theft 27
- Anti social behaviour 27
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Public order 25
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
COLNE MEDICAL CENTRE
40 STATION ROAD, BRIGHTLINGSEA, COLCHESTER, CO7 0DT
ODS code F81116
1.4 km
GREAT BENTLEY SURGERY
THE HOLLIES, THE GREEN, GREAT BENTLEY, COLCHESTER, CO7 8PJ
ODS code F81021
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Strangers Corner
BCT · Brightlingsea
- 0.2 miles
Strangers Corner
BCT · Brightlingsea
- 0.2 miles
Samsons Corner
BCT · Brightlingsea
- 0.2 miles
Samsons Corner
BCT · Brightlingsea
- 0.2 miles
Colne School
BCT · Brightlingsea
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
382 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 207 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.