Wivenhoe · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Broomgrove Infant School
Community school
Broomgrove Junior School
Community school
Millfields Primary School
Foundation school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
6 female, 3 male
1,125 residents
748 residents
1,577 residents
2,045 residents
1,857 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO7 9 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
WIVENHOE MEDICAL CENTRE, PHILLIP ROAD, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, CO7 9BA
ODS code F81028
872 m
7 RECTORY ROAD, ROWHEDGE, COLCHESTER, CO5 7HP
ODS code F81141
904 m
YPRES ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7UW
ODS code F81095
4.2 km
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2QS
ODS code F81042
4.4 km
78 EAST HILL, COLCHESTER, CO1 2RW
ODS code F81091
4.4 km
CREFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 CAVALRY ROAD, COLCHESTER, CO2 7GH
ODS code F81115
4.8 km
24 CROUCH STREET, COLCHESTER, CO3 3ES
ODS code Y01297
5.0 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.
Rosabelle Avenue
BCT · Wivenhoe
Rosabelle Avenue
BCT · Wivenhoe
Wivenhoe Cross
BCT · Wivenhoe
Co-op
BCT · Wivenhoe
Wivenhoe Cross
BCT · Wivenhoe
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 017E, 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
23,137 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
28 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 2 secondary schools. Broomgrove Infant School is the nearest published school at 592 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
472 published events cover 12 months, averaging 39.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 184 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.