Abberton Road Fingringhoe, Colchester

71 addresses across 6 postcodes (CO5), about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 8900003.

  • Sales: 57 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £380,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Colchester cost £294,210 in August 2026 (-1.4% on a year); private rents averaged £1,200 a month.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 8, E: 9, F: 4, G: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Colchester costs £2,283 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wivenhoe, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Church Green, is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 23 to 41 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 23 of its 71 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rowhedge Surgery, about 2.3 km (1.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 720 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 8 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£380,000£380,000£380,000
20241£650,000£650,000£650,000
20231£580,000£580,000£580,000
20224£437,498£344,000£1,250,000
20211£400,000£400,000£400,000
20202£402,500£385,000£420,000
20192£640,500£281,000£1,000,000
20181£260,000£260,000£260,000
20161£330,000£330,000£330,000
20124£290,000£230,000£429,000
20111£170,000£170,000£170,000
20101£899,995£899,995£899,995
All 57 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Aug 1997ANFIELD CO5 7ATSemi-detached£91,000
7 Oct 2022BAY COTTAGE CO5 7ATSemi-detached£344,000
23 Aug 2019BAY COTTAGE CO5 7ATSemi-detached£281,000
17 Mar 2022BLUEBELL BARN CO5 7ALDetached£499,995
7 Jun 2023CLAY PYGHTLE CO5 7ATDetached£580,000
17 Jan 2020CLAY PYGHTLE CO5 7ATDetached£420,000
9 Jun 1997CLAY PYGHTLE CO5 7ATDetached£87,500New build.
27 Mar 1997COLNE VIEW CO5 7ASSemi-detached£60,000
11 May 20183, COLNE VIEW COTTAGES CO5 7ASSemi-detached£260,000
9 May 20114, COLNE VIEW COTTAGES CO5 7ASSemi-detached£170,000
28 Feb 2005CORIANDER HOUSE CO5 7ASDetached£492,800
1 Jul 2003CORIANDER HOUSE CO5 7ASSemi-detached£187,500New build.
19 Dec 2025CRESTVIEW CO5 7ATSemi-detached£380,000
12 Jun 2008CRESTVIEW CO5 7ATSemi-detached£217,000
18 Aug 2009FAIRLANDS CO5 7ANDetached£460,000
16 Mar 2020GREEN HAVEN CO5 7ATDetached£385,000
7 Apr 1995HIGHFIELD CO5 7ASDetached£49,000
16 Aug 2019HIGHLANDS CO5 7ALDetached£1,000,000
17 Apr 2003HIGHLANDS CO5 7ALDetached£420,000
9 Feb 2012HYVIEW CO5 7ASDetached£330,000
27 Apr 2007HYVIEW CO5 7ASDetached£315,000
3 Oct 2003HYVIEW CO5 7ASDetached£210,000
6 Oct 1995IVY VILLA CO5 7ASDetached£103,000
8 Sep 2022KINGSLAND CO5 7ALOther£2,200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Oct 2009KINGSLAND CO5 7ALDetached£1,100,000
8 Jun 2016KINGSLAND PLACE CO5 7ARSemi-detached£330,000
19 Sep 2003KINGSLAND PLACE CO5 7ARSemi-detached£159,000
12 Apr 2012KINGSLAND VILLA CO5 7ARDetached£429,000
28 Oct 2004KINGSLAND VILLA CO5 7ARDetached£248,000
28 Feb 1995MELROSE CO5 7ARDetached£50,000
9 Feb 2024MYRTLE VILLA CO5 7ASDetached£650,000
27 Aug 1999OLD HOUSE BUNGALOW CO5 7ALDetached£170,000
24 Jul 1998OLD HOUSE BUNGALOW CO5 7ALDetached£142,500
3 Dec 2004SAFFRON HOUSE CO5 7ASDetached£450,000
15 Jul 2003SAFFRON HOUSE CO5 7ASDetached£187,500
10 Dec 1998SAFFRON HOUSE CO5 7ASDetached£90,000
1 Nov 2001THE COPPICE CO5 7ASDetached£169,995
18 Dec 19971, THE GEETONS CO5 7ANSemi-detached£68,950
3 Aug 20053, THE GEETONS CO5 7ANSemi-detached£209,995
29 Jun 20013, THE GEETONS CO5 7ANSemi-detached£90,000
27 Jun 19974, THE GEETONS CO5 7ANSemi-detached£58,500
21 Dec 20075, THE GEETONS CO5 7ANSemi-detached£310,000
10 Feb 20126, THE GEETONS CO5 7ANSemi-detached£250,000
17 Jul 20016, THE GEETONS CO5 7ANSemi-detached£122,000
18 Aug 2022THE GRANGE CO5 7ALDetached£1,250,000
27 May 2010THE OLD HOUSE CO5 7ALDetached£899,995
3 Nov 2004THE OLD HOUSE CO5 7ALDetached£595,000
5 Oct 2004THE ORCHARDS CO5 7ASDetached£405,000
30 Dec 1996THE ORCHARDS CO5 7ASDetached£158,000
7 Apr 1996THE ORCHARDS CO5 7ASDetached£159,950New build.
25 May 2022THIERSEE CO5 7ATSemi-detached£375,000
28 Jun 2021WELL N GARDEN CO5 7ASDetached£400,000
27 Oct 1995WHITE HOUSE CO5 7ARDetached£210,000
25 Jun 1997WILLOW HOUSE CO5 7ASDetached£163,000
7 Apr 1996WILLOW HOUSE CO5 7ASDetached£159,950New build.
1 Oct 2012ZAVANA CO5 7ARSemi-detached£230,000
25 Jul 2003ZAVANA CO5 7ARDetached£165,000

House prices and rents in Colchester

A typical home in Colchester cost £294,210 in August 2026, 1.4% less than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 23% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£493,135
Semi-detached£326,614
Terraced£264,000
Flat or maisonette£161,277
Bought by a first-time buyer£247,168

Private renters in Colchester paid £1,200 a month on average in September 2026, 1.7% more than a year before. That is 32% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£821
Two bedrooms£1,066
Three bedrooms£1,306
Four or more bedrooms£1,801

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 124 m². Most common: House, detached (13); House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1930-1949 (8); 1900-1929 (6); before 1900 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (social) (2); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,754 kWh of it on average in 2024, 7% more than the district's 11,926 kWh, and 5,012 kWh of electricity, 30% more than the district's 3,868 kWh. There are gas meters for about 58% of the homes.

1 of its postcodes has no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CO5 7AS193,734 kWh 1712,205 kWh
CO5 7AL113,364 kWh none recorded
CO5 7AR93,932 kWh 712,940 kWh
CO5 7AT9 5 Economy 72,392 kWh 811,179 kWh
CO5 7AN73,371 kWh under 5

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is CO5.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Colchester in 2026-27: Band D £2,283 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,522£1,776£2,029£2,283£2,790£3,297£3,805£4,566

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (22% of about 500 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Colchester STW Colchester 121032 Sewage Sludge Digestion 1.2 MW Operational Sep 2013 4.1 km (2.5 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 71 addresses are between 23 m and 41 m above sea level (36 m on average); the ground rises about 18 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CO5 7AL100%100%100%0%
CO5 7AN100%100%100%0%
CO5 7AP100%100%100%0%
CO5 7AR100%100%100%0%
CO5 7AS100%100%100%0%
CO5 7AT100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWivenhoe 352,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Alresford (Essex) 97,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stopsNone within 800 m (0.5 miles)
Ferry terminalEast Mersea Ferry Landing6.5 km (4 miles)
Car parksWivenhoe Station Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station5.4 km (3.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN34.1 km (21 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN48.4 km (30 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesRowhedge Surgery2.3 km (1.5 miles)
PharmaciesMersea Road Pharmacy3.3 km (2 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Distinction2.7 km (1.7 miles)
HospitalHertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust (Lexden Hospital)8 km (5 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Aveley Lodge Good Sep 201850 m
Police stationEssex Police6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Cash machinesEast of England Co-op Wivenhoe Cashzone3.1 km (1.9 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenChurch Green 3,860 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 310 m²920 m (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 9,580 m²910 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,490 m²1.7 km (1 mile)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Tumulus NW of East Donyland Hall, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1 mile) north. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tumulus NW of East Donyland HallScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grimps GroveWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Fingringhoe Hall PondLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Hay GroveWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Church HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) north
Fingringhoe MarshWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Rat IslandIsland4 km (2.5 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6430
55 to 59200
Under 554871

23 of the street's 71 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Colchester: see them on the Colchester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Fingringhoe Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Langenhoe Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 81% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 730 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Roman River Pre-School CO5 7BH Sessional day care 25 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 2 areas, Expected standard in 4 730 m (0.5 miles)

Ofsted also registers 665 childminders and 193 home childcarers (nannies) in Essex. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

8 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dudley Road (7); On or near South Green Road (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 721 residents in 296 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age5340
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CO5 7AS: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • CO5 7AL: 18 addresses
  • CO5 7AR: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • CO5 7AT: 9 addresses
  • CO5 7AN: 7 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • CO5 7AP: 1 address of 6 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dudley Road · Chapel Road

All the streets in CO5 and across Colchester.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.