CO7 postcode district: Brightlingsea and around
CO7 is a postcode district mostly in Essex, with 1,343 postcodes in use in 6 sectors. It has postcodes in Brightlingsea, Wivenhoe, Elmstead Market and 4 more places. It is split between 3 councils: Tendring (815 postcodes), Colchester (334) and Babergh (194). 1,149 are in Essex and 194 in Suffolk.
- Postcodes in use
- 1,343
- Sectors
- 6
- Councils
- 3 councils
- Places
- 7 places
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in CO7, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 239
- Some can get gigabit: 333
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 737
- Ofcom gives no figure: 34
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 1,343 postcodes in CO7 that ONS places, 239 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 333 have some that can, 737 can all get it and 34 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 170 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.8827, longitude 1.0054. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
Postcodes without gigabit
239 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 30 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CO7 9DN, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 27 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CO7 0RX, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 20 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CO7 8DX, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 13 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CO7 0PA, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 9 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CO7 0FG, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CO7 0HJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What broadband can you get in CO7?
Ofcom reports on 1,309 of the 1,343 postcodes in CO7. At 737 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 9 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is CO7 at risk of flooding?
154 of the 1,343 postcodes in CO7 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 868 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in CO7?
Homes in CO7 sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 470 sales, down 8.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £450,000 196 sales
- Semi-detached £300,000 178 sales
- Terraced £266,000 75 sales
- Flat or maisonette £170,000 21 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in CO7
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
Places in CO7
Towns and villages with postcodes in CO7, and how many each has here.
Who covers CO7
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Tendring815
- Colchester334
- Babergh194
Constituencies
- Harwich and North Essex984
- South Suffolk194
- Clacton163
- Colchester2
Police force areas
- Essex1,149
- Suffolk194
Next to CO7
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after CO7 in the CO area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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