Alresford

Alresford is covered by postcode district CO7. It is in the Tendring council area, Essex.

Typical price £330,000 Homes sold in Alresford, last 12 months. ▼ 1.5% on the year before Gigabit broadband 21 of 66 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Low risk only 1 of 67 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Alresford, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Alresford, by flood risk Of the 67 postcodes in Alresford that ONS places, 1 are at low risk at worst and 66 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Alresford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. CO7 8AA: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AB: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AD: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AE: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AF: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AG: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AH: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AL: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AQ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AR: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AS: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AT: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AU: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AW: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AX: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BD: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BH: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BL: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BN: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BS: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BT: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BU: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BW: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BX: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BY: not on the flood risk listCO7 8BZ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DF: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DG: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DH: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DN: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DP: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DQ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DR: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DS: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DT: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DU: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DW: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DX: not on the flood risk listCO7 8DZ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8EA: not on the flood risk listCO7 8EB: not on the flood risk listCO7 8ED: not on the flood risk listCO7 8EE: not on the flood risk listCO7 8EG: not on the flood risk listCO7 8EH: not on the flood risk listCO7 8EJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8EL: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FL: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FN: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FP: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FQ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FR: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FS: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FT: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FX: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FZ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GL: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GN: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GP: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GQ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GR: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GU: not on the flood risk listCO7 8AP: low flood risk at worst Alresford Map of every postcode in Alresford, by flood risk Of the 67 postcodes in Alresford that ONS places, 1 are at low risk at worst and 66 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Alresford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Alresford
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 66

Of the 67 postcodes in Alresford that ONS places, 1 are at low risk at worst and 66 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.8546, longitude 0.9989. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

What is it like to live in Alresford?

Homes sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.5% on the 12 months before. At 21 of the 66 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 67 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Wivenhoe Surgery, 2.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Alresford (Essex), 100 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Alresford?

Homes in Alresford sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 41 sales, down 1.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£330,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£335,000
12 months to August 2026
£330,000

▼ down 1.5% on the 12 months before

Detached£357,500 18 sales
Semi-detached£320,000 21 sales
Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Across the whole CO7 district, Alresford's main postcode district: a typical £332,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Alresford: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Alresford?

10 of the 67 postcodes now in use in Alresford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 41 homes sold in Alresford were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO7 district, 27%.

The newest postcodes

CO7 8BJsince October 2023CO7 8GUsince January 2023CO7 8BDsince July 2022CO7 8GQsince August 2021CO7 8GNsince July 2021CO7 8GRsince July 2021

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn AlresfordAcross the CO7 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 41 (0%) 36 of 459 (8%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 41 (0%) 208 of 763 (27%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Alresford?

Ofcom reports on 66 of the 67 postcodes in Alresford. At 21 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit21 of 66
Postcodes where every home can get superfast62 of 66

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.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Alresford at risk of flooding?

1 of the 67 postcodes in Alresford has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1 of 67 postcodes Low: 1

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Alresford?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Alresford. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Alresford?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Alresford is Alresford (Essex) Rail Station, 100 m away in a straight line.

  • Alresford (Essex) Rail Station Railway station 100 mWalk
  • Wivenhoe Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
  • Great Bentley Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Alresford?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Alresford. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Alresford safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 140 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Alresford over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 9 September 2025
  2. 14 October 2025
  3. 3 November 2025
  4. 10 December 2025
  5. 3 January 2026
  6. 17 February 2026
  7. 11 March 2026
  8. 13 April 2026
  9. 13 May 2026
  10. 20 June 2026
  11. 16 July 2026
  12. 11 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences65 reports
Anti-social behaviour18 reports
Public order13 reports
Other theft10 reports
Criminal damage and arson6 reports
Burglary6 reports
Vehicle crime6 reports
Drugs6 reports

Also: other crime 5, possession of weapons 2, shoplifting 1, theft from the person 1, bicycle theft 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Alresford?

District, borough or city council
Tendring
County council
Essex
Parliamentary constituency
Harwich and North Essex
Police force area
Essex
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Sir Bernard Jenkin (Conservative)

All 67 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Alresford postcodes

67 postcodes in use in Alresford, by district:

CO7 postcode district,67 postcodes

That district is in the CO postcode area.

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Places near Alresford

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Alresford's £330,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Wivenhoe2.7 km, £320,000Elmstead Market2.9 km, £380,000Rowhedge3.6 km, £303,750Great Bentley4.5 km, £390,000Brightlingsea4.9 km, £268,000Berechurch6.5 km, £285,000Colchester8.0 km, £305,000St Osyth8.3 km, £237,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Alresford

What is it like to live in Alresford?
Homes sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.5% on the 12 months before. At 21 of the 66 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 67 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Wivenhoe Surgery, 2.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Alresford (Essex), 100 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Alresford?
Alresford is covered by postcode district CO7, across 67 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Alresford in?
Alresford is in the Tendring council area, and Essex is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Alresford?
Alresford is in the Harwich and North Essex parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Sir Bernard Jenkin (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Alresford?
Homes in Alresford sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 41 sales, down 1.5% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Alresford?
In Alresford, primary schools at its postcodes include Alresford Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Market Field School and College, 2.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Alresford have a railway station?
Yes: Alresford (Essex) is 100 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Alresford, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Alresford?
Ofcom reports on 66 of the 67 postcodes in Alresford. At 21 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Alresford at risk of flooding?
1 of the 67 postcodes in Alresford has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Alresford?
10 of the 67 postcodes now in use in Alresford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 41 homes sold in Alresford were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO7 district, 27%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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