Property market
The five-year median is £357,500 from 4 recorded sales in CO7 8FP. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Tendring is £261,717 in June 2026, up 2.6% year on year.
CO7 8FP
Alresford & Elmstead · Tendring · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- 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 8FP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 8
- Latitude
- 51.854570
- Longitude
- 0.995238
- British National Grid easting
- 606,369
- British National Grid northing
- 221,571
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
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Rubens Close, Alresford, Colchester, CO7 8FP | 27 March 2026 | £300,000 |
| 4, Rubens Close, Alresford, Colchester, CO7 8FP | 20 June 2025 | £450,000 |
| 12, Rubens Close, Alresford, Colchester, CO7 8FP | 27 January 2025 | £300,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 545 m
Alresford Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Millfields Primary School
Foundation school
- 2.8 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
- 38
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- CO7 8 residents
- 6,791
22 female, 16 male
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
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO7 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
2.3 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
3.5 km
GREAT BENTLEY SURGERY
THE HOLLIES, THE GREEN, GREAT BENTLEY, COLCHESTER, CO7 8PJ
ODS code F81021
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Alresford (Essex) Rail Station
RSE · Alresford
- 0.1 miles
Orchard Rd
BCT · Alresford
- 0.1 miles
Orchard Rd
BCT · Alresford
- 0.1 miles
Alresford (Essex) Rail Station
RLY · Alresford
- 0.2 miles
The Pointer
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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Alresford Primary School is the nearest published school at 545 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
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.