Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Langham Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 723 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO7 6HT
Rural North · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rural North
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO7 6HT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 6
- Latitude
- 51.946608
- Longitude
- 0.958161
- British National Grid easting
- 603,400
- British National Grid northing
- 231,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Rural North · E05010838
- Parish or community
- E04003994
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00110006
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 001A · E01021655
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 001 · E02004506
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
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 723 m
Langham Primary Academy
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- 1.3 km
Langham Oaks
Academy special sponsor led
- 2.8 km
Ardleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 89
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 50
- Other theft 8
- Public order 8
- Vehicle crime 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO7 6 residents
- 6,011
Age bands in CO7 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.5%
874 residents
559 residents
992 residents
1,913 residents
1,732 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
THE ARDLEIGH SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, DEDHAM ROAD, ARDLEIGH, COLCHESTER, CO7 7LD
ODS code F81044
2.9 km
HIGHWOODS SURGERY
HIGHWOODS SQUARE, HIGHWOODS, COLCHESTER, CO4 9SR
ODS code F81679
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Birchwood Corner
BCT · Langham
- 0.2 miles
Birchwood Corner
BCT · Langham
- 0.3 miles
Birchwood Road
BCT · Langham
- 0.3 miles
Birchwood Road
BCT · Langham
- 0.3 miles
St Margaret's Cross
BCT · Langham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 001A, 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
22,528 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
89 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 50 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.