Property market
The five-year median is £750,000 from 1 recorded sale in CO7 8JJ. 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 8JJ
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 8JJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 8
- Latitude
- 51.835620
- Longitude
- 1.025440
- British National Grid easting
- 608,536
- British National Grid northing
- 219,550
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
- E04004111
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00112047
- Lower layer super output area
- Tendring 009D · E01022053
- 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
34 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Points, Brightlingsea Road, Thorrington, Colchester, CO7 8JJ | 30 October 2021 | £750,000 |
| Welsummer House, Brightlingsea Road, Thorrington, Colchester, CO7 8JJ | 5 March 2021 | £485,000 |
| The Coach House, Brightlingsea Road, Thorrington, Colchester, CO7 8JJ | 14 August 2020 | £475,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.7 km
Colne Community School
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
Alresford Primary School
Community school
- 2.6 km
Brightlingsea Primary School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 60
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 23
- Shoplifting 16
- Drugs 4
- Public order 3
- Vehicle crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 77
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- CO7 8 residents
- 6,791
38 female, 39 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 1.1% 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+
- 96.6%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 96.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 3.4%
- Next Generation Access
- 96.6%
- 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 straight-line
COLNE MEDICAL CENTRE
40 STATION ROAD, BRIGHTLINGSEA, COLCHESTER, CO7 0DT
ODS code F81116
2.9 km
GREAT BENTLEY SURGERY
THE HOLLIES, THE GREEN, GREAT BENTLEY, COLCHESTER, CO7 8PJ
ODS code F81021
3.4 km
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Mill House
BCT · Thorrington
- 0.1 miles
Mill House
BCT · Thorrington
- 0.2 miles
Thors Farm
BCT · Thorrington
- 0.2 miles
Thors Farm
BCT · Thorrington
- 0.3 miles
Gatehouse Farm
BCT · Thorrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tendring 009D, 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
18,744 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 0
- 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
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Colne Community School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
60 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.