Clacton-on-Sea
Clacton-on-Sea is covered by postcode districts CO15 and CO16. It is in the Tendring council area, Essex.
Every postcode in Clacton-on-Sea, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 18
- At medium risk at worst: 8
- At low risk at worst: 61
- At very low risk only: 23
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,367
Of the 1,477 postcodes in Clacton-on-Sea that ONS places, 18 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 61 are at low risk at worst, 23 are at very low risk only and 1,367 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. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.7997, longitude 1.1549. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 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.
The postcodes at high risk
18 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Clacton-on-Sea?
Homes sold for a typical £244,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,128 of the 1,417 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 147 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 110 of its 1,477 postcodes. It has 10 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Clacton-on-Sea, 650 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Clacton-on-Sea?
Homes in Clacton-on-Sea sold for a typical £244,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 698 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £240,000 from 817 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £320,000 270 sales
- Semi-detached £235,000 241 sales
- Terraced £200,000 57 sales
- Flat or maisonette £130,000 130 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CO15 district, Clacton-on-Sea's main postcode district: a typical £235,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Clacton-on-Sea: 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.
Are new homes being built in Clacton-on-Sea?
44 of the 1,477 postcodes now in use in Clacton-on-Sea came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 13 of the 817 homes sold in Clacton-on-Sea were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO15 district, 2%.
The newest postcodes
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
| Period | In Clacton-on-Sea | Across the CO15 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 4 of 698 (Under 1%) | 8 of 638 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 13 of 817 (2%) | 12 of 745 (2%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Clacton-on-Sea?
Ofcom reports on 1,417 of the 1,477 postcodes in Clacton-on-Sea. At 1,128 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 Clacton-on-Sea at risk of flooding?
110 of the 1,477 postcodes in Clacton-on-Sea 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 147 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.
Which schools are in Clacton-on-Sea?
The open schools at the postcodes in Clacton-on-Sea (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- White Hall Academy and Nursery600 m 670 pupils, 700 places
- Burrsville Infant Academy850 m 174 pupils, 180 places
- Great Clacton Church of England Junior School850 m 254 pupils, 256 places
- Holland Park Primary School1.1 km 413 pupils, 420 places
- Cann Hall Primary School1.3 km 415 pupils, 420 places
- Alton Park Junior School1.4 km
- Oakwood Infant and Nursery School1.5 km 299 pupils, 360 places
- St Clare's Catholic Primary School1.7 km 362 pupils, 315 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Clacton-on-Sea?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Clacton-on-Sea is Clacton-on-Sea Rail Station, 650 m away in a straight line.
- Clacton-on-Sea Rail Station Railway station 650 mWalk
- Thorpe-le-Soken Rail Station Railway station 5.3 kmDrive
- Kirby Cross Rail Station Railway station 6.2 kmDrive
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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Clacton-on-Sea?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Clacton-on-Sea, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Old Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2025 · Phone 01255 424334 650 mWalk
- East Lynne Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01255 220010 950 mWalk
- Ranworth Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01255 422587 950 mWalk
- St. James Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01255 222121 1.5 kmCycle
- North Clacton Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2024 · Phone 01255 688805 2.1 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Clacton-on-Sea safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 5,255 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Clacton-on-Sea 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
- 403 September 2025
- 414 October 2025
- 402 November 2025
- 342 December 2025
- 347 January 2026
- 342 February 2026
- 448 March 2026
- 489 April 2026
- 458 May 2026
- 539 June 2026
- 540 July 2026
- 531 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 131, other crime 122, robbery 72, possession of weapons 66, bicycle theft 41, theft from the person 31.
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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Clacton-on-Sea?
- District, borough or city council
- Tendring
- County council
- Essex
- Parliamentary constituency
- Clacton
- Police force area
- Essex
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- MP
- Nigel Farage (Reform UK)
All 1,477 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Clacton-on-Sea
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Tendring about council tax Council tax, on tendringdc.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Clacton-on-Sea
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Clacton-on-Sea postcodes
1,477 postcodes in use in Clacton-on-Sea, by district:
Those districts are all in the CO postcode area.
Check a Clacton-on-Sea postcode
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Places near Clacton-on-Sea
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Clacton-on-Sea's £244,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Clacton-on-Sea
- What is the postcode for Clacton-on-Sea?
- Postcode districts CO15 and CO16, with 1,477 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Clacton-on-Sea in?
- Tendring, with Essex as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Clacton-on-Sea?
- Nigel Farage (Reform UK), for Clacton. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Clacton-on-Sea?
- A typical £244,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 698 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Clacton-on-Sea?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include White Hall Academy and Nursery, Burrsville Infant Academy and Great Clacton Church of England Junior School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Clacton County High School and Lift Clacton. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Clacton-on-Sea have a railway station?
- Yes: Clacton-on-Sea station, 650 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Clacton-on-Sea?
- Ofcom reports on 1,417 of the 1,477 postcodes in Clacton-on-Sea. At 1,128 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Clacton-on-Sea at risk of flooding?
- 110 of the 1,477 postcodes in Clacton-on-Sea 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 147 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Clacton-on-Sea?
- 44 of the 1,477 postcodes now in use in Clacton-on-Sea came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 13 of the 817 homes sold in Clacton-on-Sea were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO15 district, 2%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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