Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Alresford Primary School is the nearest published school at 440 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO7 8AN
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO7 8AN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2023
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 8
- Latitude
- 51.853950
- Longitude
- 0.996635
- British National Grid easting
- 606,468
- British National Grid northing
- 221,506
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
- E04004088
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00188154
- Lower layer super output area
- Tendring 009A · E01021967
- 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
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 440 m
Alresford Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Millfields Primary School
Foundation school
- 2.9 km
Market Field School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 136
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 72
- Public order 9
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Other theft 8
- Vehicle crime 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO7 8 residents
- 6,791
Age bands in CO7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 27%
1,026 residents
614 residents
1,398 residents
1,853 residents
1,809 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
2.4 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
3.6 km
GREAT BENTLEY SURGERY
THE HOLLIES, THE GREEN, GREAT BENTLEY, COLCHESTER, CO7 8PJ
ODS code F81021
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Alresford (Essex) Rail Station
RSE · Alresford
- 0.0 miles
Alresford (Essex) Rail Station
RLY · Alresford
- 0.1 miles
The Pointer
BCT · Alresford
- 0.1 miles
The Pointer
BCT · Alresford
- 0.1 miles
Orchard Rd
BCT · Alresford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tendring 009A, 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
21,499 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
136 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 72 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.