Rowhedge
Rowhedge is covered by postcode district CO5. It is in the Colchester council area, Essex.
Every postcode in Rowhedge, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 2
- At medium risk at worst: 3
- At low risk at worst: 2
- At very low risk only: 24
- Not on the at-risk list: 29
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 60 postcodes in Rowhedge that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst, 24 are at very low risk only and 29 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 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 51.8559, longitude 0.9472. 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
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. CO5 7JD, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Rowhedge?
Homes sold for a typical £306,250 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 42 of the 60 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 45 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 31 of its 60 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Wivenhoe, 600 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 Rowhedge?
Homes in Rowhedge sold for a typical £306,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 42 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £307,000 from 61 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £336,500 10 sales
- Semi-detached £305,000 11 sales
- Terraced £320,000 13 sales
- Flat or maisonette £172,500 8 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CO5 district, Rowhedge's main postcode district: a typical £375,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Rowhedge: 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 Rowhedge?
1 of the 60 postcodes now in use in Rowhedge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 61 homes sold in Rowhedge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO5 district, 21%.
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 Rowhedge | Across the CO5 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 42 (0%) | 9 of 389 (2%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 61 (0%) | 131 of 623 (21%) |
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 Rowhedge?
Ofcom reports on 60 of the 60 postcodes in Rowhedge. At 42 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 Rowhedge at risk of flooding?
31 of the 60 postcodes in Rowhedge 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 45 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 Rowhedge?
The primary schools are at the postcodes in Rowhedge. 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.
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 Rowhedge?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Rowhedge is Wivenhoe Rail Station, 600 m away in a straight line.
- Wivenhoe Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
- Alresford (Essex) Rail Station Railway station 3.5 kmCycle
- Hythe (Essex) Rail Station Railway station 3.6 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Rowhedge?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Rowhedge. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Rowhedge Surgery Phone 01206 728585 250 mWalk
Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.
Is Rowhedge safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 413 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Rowhedge 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
- 36 September 2025
- 35 October 2025
- 35 November 2025
- 26 December 2025
- 33 January 2026
- 35 February 2026
- 43 March 2026
- 25 April 2026
- 31 May 2026
- 31 June 2026
- 42 July 2026
- 41 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 7, other crime 6, theft from the person 1, bicycle theft 1, 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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Rowhedge?
- District, borough or city council
- Colchester
- 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 60 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 Rowhedge
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Colchester about council tax Council tax, on new.colchester.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Rowhedge
- 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
Rowhedge postcodes
60 postcodes in use in Rowhedge, by district:
That district is in the CO postcode area.
Check a Rowhedge postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
Do not know the postcode? What is my postcode?
Places near Rowhedge
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Rowhedge's £306,250. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Rowhedge
- What is the postcode for Rowhedge?
- Postcode district CO5, with 60 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Rowhedge in?
- Colchester, with Essex as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Rowhedge?
- Sir Bernard Jenkin (Conservative), for Harwich and North Essex. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Rowhedge?
- A typical £306,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 42 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Rowhedge?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St Lawrence Church of England Primary School, Rowhedge; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Thomas Lord Audley School, 3.3 km away. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Rowhedge have a railway station?
- Yes: Wivenhoe station, 600 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Rowhedge?
- Ofcom reports on 60 of the 60 postcodes in Rowhedge. At 42 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Rowhedge at risk of flooding?
- 31 of the 60 postcodes in Rowhedge 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 45 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 Rowhedge?
- 1 of the 60 postcodes now in use in Rowhedge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 61 homes sold in Rowhedge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO5 district, 21%. 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
- 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. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
Licences: Open Government Licence v3.0; Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
Something wrong on this page? Report an error and we will check it against the source. All our sources