Mistley Road Colchester

14 addresses across 2 postcodes (CO4), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8903238.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £360,000 across 3 sales.
  • 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: 13 homes have an energy certificate (B: 13).
  • 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.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A1341, carries 17,426 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B, which costs £1,776 a year in Colchester in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Colchester, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 40 m away, and High Woods Country Park (154 hectares) is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mill Road Surgery, about 650 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Water: Supplied by Anglian Water.
  • Policing: Essex Police: 11.1% of the crimes it recorded in 2025/26 had led to a charge or summons (England and Wales 9.3%); it answered 91.9% of 999 calls within 10 seconds (target 90%).
  • MP: Pam Cox, Labour, MP for Colchester.
  • Council: Mile End ward, Colchester: Liberal Democrat won its latest election, on 7 May 2026.
  • Crime: 53 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.

See any home on its own: in the list of sales below, tap an underlined house number to open that home's page, with every energy certificate lodged for it and every sale matched to it.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20263£360,000£340,500£375,000
20251£250,000£250,000£250,000
20243£352,500£350,000£365,000
20221£375,000£375,000£375,000
202110£322,495£299,995£519,995
20208£312,495£239,995£349,995
201914£307,495£229,995£329,995
All 42 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Feb 20211 CO4 6BYDetached£519,995New build.
22 Nov 20192 CO4 6BYDetached£324,995New build.
26 Feb 20213 CO4 6BYDetached£339,995New build.
6 Dec 20194 CO4 6BYDetached£324,995New build.
12 Feb 20215 CO4 6BYDetached£339,995New build.
22 Nov 20196 CO4 6BYDetached£325,000New build.
5 Feb 20217 CO4 6BYDetached£299,995New build.
19 Aug 20268 CO4 6BYDetached£375,000
29 Nov 20198 CO4 6BYDetached£304,995New build.
1 Feb 20219 CO4 6BYTerraced£319,995New build.
6 Dec 201910 CO4 6BYSemi-detached£304,995New build.
12 Feb 202111 CO4 6BYSemi-detached£319,995New build.
6 Dec 201912 CO4 6BYSemi-detached£304,995New build.
12 Feb 202113 CO4 6BYTerraced£299,995New build.
26 May 202614 CO4 6BYDetached£360,000
15 Nov 201914 CO4 6BYDetached£304,995New build.
26 Nov 202015 CO4 6BYFlat or maisonette£239,995New build.
20 Dec 201916 CO4 6BYFlat or maisonette£229,995New build.
1 Apr 202117 CO4 6BYTerraced£324,995New build.
19 Dec 201918 CO4 6BYTerraced£304,995New build.
30 Oct 202019 CO4 6BYTerraced£314,995New build.
7 Oct 202020 CO4 6BYTerraced£290,000New build.
12 Apr 202121 CO4 6BYTerraced£329,995New build.
17 Apr 202622 CO4 6BYTerraced£340,500
19 Feb 202622 CO4 6BYTerraced£695,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Dec 201922 CO4 6BYTerraced£313,995New build.
30 Oct 202023 CO4 6BYTerraced£329,995New build.
5 Jul 202424 CO4 6BYTerraced£365,000
23 Dec 201924 CO4 6BYTerraced£313,995New build.
19 Mar 202125 CO4 6BYTerraced£319,995New build.
15 Jan 202026 CO4 6BYTerraced£309,995New build.
29 Jul 202427 CO4 6BYTerraced£352,500
4 Dec 202027 CO4 6BYTerraced£324,995New build.
5 Sep 202428 CO4 6BYTerraced£350,000
20 Dec 201928 CO4 6BYTerraced£309,995New build.
28 Sep 202029 CO4 6BYFlat or maisonette£239,995New build.
1 Oct 202530 CO4 6BYTerraced£250,000
27 Jun 202530 CO4 6BYTerraced£248,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Dec 201930 CO4 6BYTerraced£229,995New build.
18 Dec 202031 CO4 6BYSemi-detached£349,995New build.
21 Apr 202232 CO4 6BYSemi-detached£375,000
17 Dec 201932 CO4 6BYSemi-detached£329,995New build.

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 October 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (4); House, detached (4); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 2017 (7); 2020 (4); 2021 (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,923 kWh of it on average in 2024, 23% less than the district's 10,336 kWh, and 2,609 kWh of electricity, 23% less than the district's 3,395 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CO4 6BY331,806 kWh 327,211 kWh
CO4 6BZ482,550 kWh 508,187 kWh

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 CO4.

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 B (34% of about 710 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: none.
  • 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.

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

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 17 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CO4 6BYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 11 unlikely
CO4 6BZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely

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 15 November 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 15 November 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 addresses are about 50 m above sea level.

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
CO4 6BY100%100%100%0%
CO4 6BZ98%98%98%2%

Water

This street's water is supplied by Anglian Water. The company gives the hardness and quality of the water at an address on its website.

Anglian Water does not publish the hardness of its tap samples as open data; only Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water do.

Sources: water company supply areas (Water UK) and tap samples from Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water, from Stream, CC BY 4.0.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsColchester 3.6 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Colchester Town 1.0 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whitebeam Close Mile End370 m
Bus or coach stationColchester North Park-and-Ride Mile End1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parksColchester Hospital Visitor Car Park840 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fastned Charging Station640 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN41.2 km (26 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN45.7 km (28 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mill Road Surgery Good Feb 2018650 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nayland Road Pharmacy770 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 61 Mill Road [Dental Practice]490 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalHospital Liaison Team910 m (0.6 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Valmark House Requires improvement Nov 2023490 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationEssex Police3.3 km (2 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest BP - Colchester SF Connect, Colchester bypass Cashzone560 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.1 ha40 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)High Woods Country Park 154 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 290 m²240 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mill Road Recreation Ground 9,920 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kirby Drive Allotments 8,630 m²320 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 159 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Earthwork in Brinkley Grove, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.7 miles) east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Earthwork in Brinkley GroveScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Colchester Castle ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
America HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Brinkley GroveWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
High WoodsWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
East WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Aldercar WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Ardleigh ReservoirLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.4 miles) 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)9.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)13.34015

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
55 to 5930
Under 551114

3 of the street's 14 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), 15 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
Camulos AcademyPrimary4–11340 m No published inspection 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 20% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Myland Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 74% in 2023)
Queen Boudica Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 58% in 2023)
The Trinity SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 49.6; 57.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
The Gilberd SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 49.9 (53.4 in 2025 and 51.5 in 2024); 49.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
Brinkley Grove Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)
Highwoods Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
The Bishop William Ward Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 57% 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

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 30 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Bright Horizons Colchester Day Nursery and Preschool CO4 6BT Full day care 108 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 30 m
Fun 4 Kids At Camulos Academy CO4 6AL Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 340 m
Rainbow Playgroup CO4 5ET Sessional day care 20 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 510 m (0.3 miles)
Chestnut House Kindergarten CO4 5LE Full day care 76 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 650 m (0.4 miles)
Colchester Northern Gateway Sports Park Kids Camp CO4 5YX Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 800 m (0.5 miles)
Chesterwell Day Nursery CO4 6AZ Full day care 84 Nov 2025: Strong standard in 6 areas 930 m (0.6 miles)
Myland Pre-School CIC CO4 5DY Sessional day care 26 Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.7 miles)
Nannas Day Nurseries CO4 5XT Full day care 44 Outstanding (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Nannas Day Nurseries CO4 5JR Full day care 60 Nov 2025: Strong standard in 6 areas 1.3 km (0.8 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 15 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Bright Horizons Colchester Day Nursery and Preschool CO4 6BTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd. CO4 6BTRetailers - other310 mAwaiting inspection
The St Aubyn Centre CO4 5HGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Headway Essex CO4 6DHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good3 Apr 2024
Mill House CO4 5LJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jun 2023
David Lloyd Leisure CO4 6ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Oct 2025

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.

53 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences14
Anti-social behaviour11
Criminal damage and arson7
Public order6
Drugs6
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Other crime2
Other theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fleming Way (19); On or near Whitmore Drive (16); On or near Larch Way (6); On or near Jenner Chase (6); On or near Wentworth Avenue (3).

Policing

This street is policed by Essex Police. Of the 142,978 crimes it recorded in 2025/26 (April to March), 11.1% had led to someone being charged or summonsed to court, against 9.3% across England and Wales.

In the 12 months November 2025 to October 2026 it answered 91.9% of its 336,216 999 calls within 10 seconds, against a national target of 90% and 89.6% across England and Wales.

What happened to the crimes recorded in 2025/26
OutcomeEssex PoliceEngland and Wales
Charged or summonsed11.1%9.3%
Dealt with out of court (caution, community resolution, penalty notice)5.3%4.4%
Closed with no suspect identified34.8%37.8%
Closed: the victim did not support further action28.8%25.4%
Closed: suspect identified, but not enough evidence10.9%15.1%
Other outcomes (not in the public interest, transferred elsewhere)7.2%3.9%
No outcome yet (still under investigation)2.0%4.0%

Each crime is counted under the outcome it had been given when the figures were taken, a few months after the year ended, so some recorded late in the year were still being investigated. Forces differ in the crimes they deal with (a city force has more shoplifting and fewer rural thefts), which changes these shares, so a difference from England and Wales is not by itself a measure of how well a force investigates. Fraud is not included: it is recorded nationally.

Sources: Home Office, Crime outcomes in England and Wales, open data tables, offences recorded in 2025/26, and 999 call answering data published on police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A1341 between A134 and United Way, with 17,426 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 460 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A134 A1341 to Boxted Road 13,516 counted 2025 3% +87% since 2015 310 m
A1341 A134 to United Way 17,426 estimated; counted 2024 3% 460 m (0.3 miles)
Minor road Not recorded 13,879 counted 2025 0% 470 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 361 residents in 129 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 age2840
Children under 1529%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright6%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work81%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)2%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 van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away34%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications3%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

Politics

This street is in the Colchester constituency. Its MP is Pam Cox, Labour.

2024 general election in Colchester
CandidatePartyVotesShareChange
Pam Cox (elected)Labour18,804 41.9% +11.8
James CracknellConservative10,554 23.5% -28.8
Terence LongstaffReform UK6,664 14.8%
Martin GossLiberal Democrat6,393 14.2% -0.4
Sara RuthGreen Party2,414 5.4% +2.5
James RolfeClimate Party74 0.2%

Labour gain from Conservative, with a majority of 8,250 votes (18.4%). 44,903 valid votes from an electorate of 78,662, a turnout of 57.3%.

Change is in percentage points of the vote on 2019, recalculated for the 2024 boundaries (the notional result), so it compares like with like where the constituency changed shape; it is blank where the party or candidate did not stand in 2019.

Sources: UK Parliament, election results for the 2024 general election, and the Members API for the current MP (as at 15 November 2026). Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Council: Mile End ward, Colchester

This street is in this ward. Its latest election was on 7 May 2026.

7 May 2026 in Mile End
CandidatePartyVotes
David King (elected)Liberal Democrat1,912
Flavia Popescu-RichardsonReform UK800
Amanda Jane KirkeGreen Party470
Marianne AndersenConservative350
Pauline BaconLabour (Co-op)264

Turnout 36.7%.

Also elected here in the four years before: 2 May 2024, Martin Goss (Liberal Democrat); 4 May 2023, Venessa Jayne Beth Moffat (Liberal Democrat).

County council: Mile End and Highwoods division, Essex

This street is in this division. Its latest election was on 6 May 2021.

6 May 2021 in Mile End and Highwoods
CandidatePartyVotes
David King (elected)Liberal Democrat2,221
David Linghorn-BakerConservative1,856
Jocelyn Emma LawLabour946
Amanda Jane KirkeGreen Party387
Diane BakerReform UK162

Turnout 32%.

Councils elect all their members every four years or a third of them in three years out of four, so the members for a ward can come from more than one election; a councillor may have changed party since being elected.

Source: council election candidates and results from Democracy Club, CC BY 4.0.

What has changed

  • Flood risk Flood risk figures for CO4 6BZ changed: 0 addresses at high risk, 0 medium, 6 low (was 0, 0, 5) found 15 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

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

  • CO4 6BY: 13 addresses of 42 in the postcode
  • CO4 6BZ: 1 address of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Arthur Cross Square · Fleming Way · Firs Walk · Larch Way · Wentworth Avenue · Iris Close · St Michael's Close · Jenner Chase · Dene Close · Echelon Walk · Chapel Crescent · Maplehurst Road

All the streets in CO4 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.