Thorpe-le-Soken

Thorpe-le-Soken is covered by postcode district CO16. It is in the Tendring council area, Essex.

Typical price £352,500 Homes sold in Thorpe-le-Soken, last 12 months. ▼ 9.6% on the year before Gigabit broadband 49 of 76 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Low risk only 1 of 76 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Thorpe-le-Soken, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Thorpe-le-Soken, by flood risk Of the 76 postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken that ONS places, 1 are at very low risk only and 75 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Thorpe-le-Soken. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. CO16 0AA: not on the flood risk listCO16 0AB: not on the flood risk listCO16 0DQ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0DU: not on the flood risk listCO16 0DY: not on the flood risk listCO16 0DZ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EA: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EB: not on the flood risk listCO16 0ED: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EF: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EG: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EH: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EJ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EN: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EP: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EQ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0ER: not on the flood risk listCO16 0ES: not on the flood risk listCO16 0ET: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EU: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EW: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EY: not on the flood risk listCO16 0EZ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0FA: not on the flood risk listCO16 0FB: not on the flood risk listCO16 0FF: not on the flood risk listCO16 0FG: not on the flood risk listCO16 0FH: not on the flood risk listCO16 0HA: not on the flood risk listCO16 0HB: not on the flood risk listCO16 0HE: not on the flood risk listCO16 0HF: not on the flood risk listCO16 0HT: not on the flood risk listCO16 0HU: not on the flood risk listCO16 0HX: not on the flood risk listCO16 0HZ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JA: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JB: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JE: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JF: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JG: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JH: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JJ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JN: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JP: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JR: not on the flood risk listCO16 0JS: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LA: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LB: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LD: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LE: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LF: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LG: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LH: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LJ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LL: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LN: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LP: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LQ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LR: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LS: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LT: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LU: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LW: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LX: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LY: not on the flood risk listCO16 0LZ: not on the flood risk listCO16 0NA: not on the flood risk listCO16 0NB: not on the flood risk listCO16 0ND: not on the flood risk listCO16 0NE: not on the flood risk listCO16 0NF: not on the flood risk listCO16 0NR: not on the flood risk listCO16 0NS: not on the flood risk listCO16 0NT: not on the flood risk listCO16 0HD: very low flood risk only Thorpe-le-Soken Map of every postcode in Thorpe-le-Soken, by flood risk Of the 76 postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken that ONS places, 1 are at very low risk only and 75 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Thorpe-le-Soken. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Thorpe-le-Soken
  • 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: 1
  • Not on the at-risk list: 75

Of the 76 postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken that ONS places, 1 are at very low risk only and 75 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 51.8585, longitude 1.1671. 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 Thorpe-le-Soken?

Homes sold for a typical £352,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 9.6% on the 12 months before. At 49 of the 76 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 76 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Thorpe-le-Soken, 1.3 km 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 Thorpe-le-Soken?

Homes in Thorpe-le-Soken sold for a typical £352,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 22 sales, down 9.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£352,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£390,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 9.6% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £450,000 17 sales
  • Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
  • Terraced 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole CO16 district, Thorpe-le-Soken's main postcode district: a typical £276,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Thorpe-le-Soken: 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 Thorpe-le-Soken?

7 of the 76 postcodes now in use in Thorpe-le-Soken came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 11 of the 41 homes sold in Thorpe-le-Soken were newly built (27%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO16 district, 15%.

The newest postcodes

CO16 0FHsince October 2023CO16 0FGsince July 2023CO16 0FFsince August 2022CO16 0EUsince August 2021CO16 0FAsince August 2021CO16 0FBsince May 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 Thorpe-le-SokenAcross the CO16 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 22 (0%) 15 of 321 (5%)
The 12 months to August 2025 11 of 41 (27%) 66 of 431 (15%)

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 Thorpe-le-Soken?

Ofcom reports on 76 of the 76 postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken. At 49 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit49 of 76
Postcodes where every home can get superfast71 of 76

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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Thorpe-le-Soken at risk of flooding?

1 of the 76 postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken 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 76 postcodes Very low: 9

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 Thorpe-le-Soken?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken. 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 Thorpe-le-Soken?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken is Thorpe-le-Soken Rail Station, 1.3 km away in a straight line.

  • Thorpe-le-Soken Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
  • Weeley Rail Station Railway station 3.6 kmCycle
  • Kirby Cross Rail Station Railway station 3.8 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 Thorpe-le-Soken?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken. 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 Thorpe-le-Soken safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 155 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken 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. 4 September 2025
  2. 8 October 2025
  3. 7 November 2025
  4. 17 December 2025
  5. 5 January 2026
  6. 7 February 2026
  7. 20 March 2026
  8. 15 April 2026
  9. 18 May 2026
  10. 29 June 2026
  11. 16 July 2026
  12. 9 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences67 reports
Anti-social behaviour23 reports
Vehicle crime18 reports
Public order14 reports
Criminal damage and arson10 reports
Other theft7 reports
Possession of weapons4 reports
Burglary3 reports

Also: shoplifting 3, drugs 3, bicycle theft 2, theft from the person 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 Thorpe-le-Soken?

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 76 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

Moving to Thorpe-le-Soken

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Thorpe-le-Soken postcodes

76 postcodes in use in Thorpe-le-Soken, by district:

CO16 postcode district,76 postcodes

That district is in the CO postcode area.

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Places near Thorpe-le-Soken

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Thorpe-le-Soken's £352,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Weeley3.4 km, £322,000Little Clacton3.8 km, £292,500Kirby Cross4.8 km, £320,000Frinton-on-Sea6.1 km, £340,000Clacton-on-Sea6.6 km, £244,000Walton-on-the-Naze6.9 km, £265,000Great Bentley7.0 km, £390,000St Osyth8.7 km, £237,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Thorpe-le-Soken

What is it like to live in Thorpe-le-Soken?
Homes sold for a typical £352,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 9.6% on the 12 months before. At 49 of the 76 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 76 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Thorpe-le-Soken, 1.3 km 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 Thorpe-le-Soken?
Thorpe-le-Soken is covered by postcode district CO16, across 76 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Thorpe-le-Soken in?
Thorpe-le-Soken is in the Tendring council area, and Essex is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Thorpe-le-Soken?
Thorpe-le-Soken is in the Clacton parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Nigel Farage (Reform UK), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Thorpe-le-Soken?
Homes in Thorpe-le-Soken sold for a typical £352,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 22 sales, down 9.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Thorpe-le-Soken?
In Thorpe-le-Soken, primary schools at its postcodes include Rolph Church of England Primary School and Nursery; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Compass Community School Essex, 2.0 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Thorpe-le-Soken have a railway station?
Yes: Thorpe-le-Soken is 1.3 km from the centre point of the postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Thorpe-le-Soken?
Ofcom reports on 76 of the 76 postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken. At 49 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Thorpe-le-Soken at risk of flooding?
1 of the 76 postcodes in Thorpe-le-Soken 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 Thorpe-le-Soken?
7 of the 76 postcodes now in use in Thorpe-le-Soken came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 11 of the 41 homes sold in Thorpe-le-Soken were newly built (27%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO16 district, 15%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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