Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 0 secondary schools. Market Field School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO7 7DU
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 7DU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 7
- Latitude
- 51.874988
- Longitude
- 1.015935
- British National Grid easting
- 607,700
- British National Grid northing
- 223,900
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
- E00112035
- Lower layer super output area
- Tendring 005C · E01022051
- 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
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Market Field School
Academy special converter
- 2.1 km
Elmstead Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
St George's Church of England Primary School, Great Bromley
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 99
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 45
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Burglary 6
- Other theft 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
GREAT BENTLEY SURGERY
THE HOLLIES, THE GREEN, GREAT BENTLEY, COLCHESTER, CO7 8PJ
ODS code F81021
4.0 km
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Church Road
BCT · Frating Hill
- 0.4 miles
Beth Chatto Gdns
BCT · Elmstead Market
- 0.4 miles
Church Road
BCT · Frating Hill
- 0.4 miles
Beth Chatto Gdns
BCT · Elmstead Market
- 0.7 miles
Frating Hill Park
BCT · Frating
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tendring 005C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,397 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
99 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 45 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.