Property market
The five-year median is £205,886 from 3 recorded sales in CO7 9FX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Colchester is £298,003 in June 2026, down 0.3% year on year.
CO7 9FX
Wivenhoe · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colchester
- Ward
- Wivenhoe
- Local authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO7 9FX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO7
- Postcode sector
- CO7 9
- Latitude
- 51.869375
- Longitude
- 0.970056
- British National Grid easting
- 604,568
- British National Grid northing
- 223,146
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Colchester · E07000071
- Electoral ward
- Wivenhoe · E05010843
- Parish or community
- E04004010
- Westminster constituency
- Harwich and North Essex · E14001273
- Output area
- E00110409
- Lower layer super output area
- Colchester 017B · E01021737
- Middle layer super output area
- Colchester 017 · E02004522
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Cuckoo Chase, Wivenhoe, Colchester, CO7 9FX | 20 June 2025 | £171,571 |
| 6, Cuckoo Chase, Wivenhoe, Colchester, CO7 9FX | 9 April 2025 | £240,200 |
| 1, Cuckoo Chase, Wivenhoe, Colchester, CO7 9FX | 4 February 2025 | £205,886 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 2
- 947 m
Broomgrove Infant School
Community school
- 947 m
Broomgrove Junior School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Millfields Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 324
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 113
- Violence and sexual offences 110
- Criminal damage and arson 19
- Vehicle crime 18
- Other theft 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO7 9 residents
- 7,617
Age bands in CO7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.3%
1,125 residents
748 residents
1,577 residents
2,045 residents
1,857 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
4
within 5 km
WIVENHOE SURGERY
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
1.6 km
ROWHEDGE SURGERY
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
2.2 km
COLCHESTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
4.8 km
EAST HILL SURGERY
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
The Flag
BCT · Wivenhoe
- 0.3 miles
The Flag
BCT · Wivenhoe
- 0.3 miles
Heath Road
BCT · Wivenhoe
- 0.4 miles
Cricket Ground
BCT · Wivenhoe
- 0.5 miles
Cricket Ground
BCT · Wivenhoe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 017B, 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
21,025 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 2 secondary schools. Broomgrove Infant School is the nearest published school at 947 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
324 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 113 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.