Elmstead Market

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

Typical price £380,000 Homes sold in Elmstead Market, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 63 of 74 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Elmstead Market, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Elmstead Market, by flood risk Of the 74 postcodes in Elmstead Market that ONS places, 74 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Elmstead Market. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. CO7 7AA: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AD: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AE: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AF: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AG: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AH: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AL: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AN: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AQ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AS: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AT: not on the flood risk listCO7 7AW: not on the flood risk listCO7 7BT: not on the flood risk listCO7 7BU: not on the flood risk listCO7 7BX: not on the flood risk listCO7 7BY: not on the flood risk listCO7 7DA: not on the flood risk listCO7 7DB: not on the flood risk listCO7 7DD: not on the flood risk listCO7 7DE: not on the flood risk listCO7 7DF: not on the flood risk listCO7 7DZ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7EA: not on the flood risk listCO7 7ED: not on the flood risk listCO7 7EE: not on the flood risk listCO7 7EG: not on the flood risk listCO7 7EH: not on the flood risk listCO7 7EJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7EL: not on the flood risk listCO7 7EN: not on the flood risk listCO7 7ES: not on the flood risk listCO7 7ET: not on the flood risk listCO7 7EW: not on the flood risk listCO7 7FD: not on the flood risk listCO7 7FF: not on the flood risk listCO7 7FG: not on the flood risk listCO7 7FH: not on the flood risk listCO7 7FP: not on the flood risk listCO7 7FZ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GE: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GF: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GG: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GH: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GL: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GP: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GQ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GR: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GS: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GT: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GW: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GX: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GY: not on the flood risk listCO7 7GZ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7HF: not on the flood risk listCO7 7HR: not on the flood risk listCO7 7HS: not on the flood risk listCO7 7WW: not on the flood risk listCO7 7XG: not on the flood risk listCO7 7XL: not on the flood risk listCO7 7XN: not on the flood risk listCO7 7XP: not on the flood risk listCO7 7XR: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YA: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YB: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YD: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YE: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YF: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YG: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YH: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YQ: not on the flood risk listCO7 7YZ: not on the flood risk list Elmstead Market Map of every postcode in Elmstead Market, by flood risk Of the 74 postcodes in Elmstead Market that ONS places, 74 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Elmstead Market. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Elmstead Market
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 74

Of the 74 postcodes in Elmstead Market that ONS places, 74 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 51.8807, longitude 0.9960. 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.

What is it like to live in Elmstead Market?

Homes sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 63 of the 74 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 74 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Wivenhoe Surgery, 3.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Alresford (Essex), 3.0 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 Elmstead Market?

Homes in Elmstead Market sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 36 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £425,000 from 58 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£380,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£425,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £485,000 21 sales
  • Semi-detached £335,000 7 sales
  • Terraced £257,000 7 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole CO7 district, Elmstead Market's main postcode district: a typical £330,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Elmstead Market: 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 Elmstead Market?

25 of the 74 postcodes now in use in Elmstead Market came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 32 of the 58 homes sold in Elmstead Market were newly built (55%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO7 district, 28%.

The newest postcodes

CO7 7FPsince June 2025CO7 7GSsince December 2023CO7 7XPsince November 2023CO7 7XRsince October 2023CO7 7GRsince September 2023CO7 7XGsince April 2023

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 Elmstead MarketAcross the CO7 district
The 12 months to September 2026 4 of 36 (11%) 27 of 470 (6%)
The 12 months to September 2025 32 of 58 (55%) 212 of 770 (28%)

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 Elmstead Market?

Ofcom reports on 74 of the 74 postcodes in Elmstead Market. At 63 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit63 of 74
Postcodes where every home can get superfast72 of 74

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 checker

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Elmstead Market at risk of flooding?

None of the 74 postcodes in Elmstead Market is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 Elmstead Market?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Elmstead Market. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Elmstead Market?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Elmstead Market is Alresford (Essex) Rail Station, 3.0 km away in a straight line.

  • Alresford (Essex) Rail Station Railway station 3.0 kmCycle
  • Wivenhoe Rail Station Railway station 3.8 kmCycle
  • Hythe (Essex) Rail Station Railway station 4.7 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Elmstead Market?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Elmstead Market. 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 GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Elmstead Market safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 145 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Elmstead Market 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. 13 September 2025
  2. 16 October 2025
  3. 12 November 2025
  4. 8 December 2025
  5. 7 January 2026
  6. 3 February 2026
  7. 13 March 2026
  8. 9 April 2026
  9. 14 May 2026
  10. 10 June 2026
  11. 20 July 2026
  12. 20 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences63 reports
Anti-social behaviour23 reports
Public order13 reports
Criminal damage and arson11 reports
Other theft8 reports
Shoplifting7 reports
Burglary6 reports
Vehicle crime6 reports

Also: other crime 4, drugs 3, possession of weapons 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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Elmstead Market?

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 74 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.

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Elmstead Market postcodes

74 postcodes in use in Elmstead Market, by district:

CO7 postcode district,74 postcodes

That district is in the CO postcode area.

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Places near Elmstead Market

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Elmstead Market's £380,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Alresford2.9 km, £332,500Wivenhoe3.2 km, £315,000Rowhedge4.3 km, £306,250Great Bentley5.5 km, £387,000Berechurch6.6 km, £285,000Colchester6.9 km, £305,000Lawford7.7 km, £352,500Brightlingsea7.8 km, £270,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Elmstead Market

What is the postcode for Elmstead Market?
Postcode district CO7, with 74 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Elmstead Market in?
Tendring, with Essex as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Elmstead Market?
Sir Bernard Jenkin (Conservative), for Harwich and North Essex. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Elmstead Market?
A typical £380,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 36 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Elmstead Market?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Elmstead Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Colchester Academy, 4.2 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Elmstead Market have a railway station?
The nearest is Alresford (Essex) station, 3.0 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Elmstead Market?
Ofcom reports on 74 of the 74 postcodes in Elmstead Market. At 63 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Elmstead Market at risk of flooding?
None of the 74 postcodes in Elmstead Market is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Elmstead Market?
25 of the 74 postcodes now in use in Elmstead Market came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 32 of the 58 homes sold in Elmstead Market were newly built (55%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO7 district, 28%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

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. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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