Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 1 secondary schools. Elmstead Primary School is the nearest published school at 188 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO7 7BW
Alresford & Elmstead · Tendring · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alresford & Elmstead
- Local authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO7 7BW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 7
- Latitude
- 51.886467
- Longitude
- 0.989089
- British National Grid easting
- 605,800
- British National Grid northing
- 225,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Tendring · E07000076
- Electoral ward
- Alresford & Elmstead · E05011932
- Parish or community
- E04004093
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00112039
- Lower layer super output area
- Tendring 005D · E01022052
- Middle layer super output area
- Tendring 005 · E02004577
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
- 21
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 1
- 188 m
Elmstead Primary School
Academy converter
- 839 m
Market Field School
Academy special converter
- 2.8 km
St George's Church of England Primary School, Great Bromley
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 107
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 48
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Other theft 9
- Burglary 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO7 7 residents
- 5,923
Age bands in CO7 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
901 residents
557 residents
1,178 residents
1,876 residents
1,356 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 straight-line
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
3.9 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
4.4 km
THE ARDLEIGH SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, DEDHAM ROAD, ARDLEIGH, COLCHESTER, CO7 7LD
ODS code F81044
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Oatlands
BCT · Elmstead Market
- 0.3 miles
Oatlands
BCT · Elmstead Market
- 0.5 miles
Chapel Ln
BCT · Elmstead Market
- 0.5 miles
Chapel Ln
BCT · Elmstead Market
- 0.5 miles
Blossomwood Farm
BCT · Elmstead Market
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tendring 005D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,485 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
107 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 48 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.