CO10 crime rate and statistics

The CO10 postcode district, in the CO (Colchester) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,716 street-crime records for CO10 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.4% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 54.0 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 64.8 for Suffolk Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

2,716

Latest month (August 2026)

269

Year-on-year

-0.4%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 191
October 2025 195
November 2025 200
December 2025 205
January 2026 231
February 2026 198
March 2026 268
April 2026 194
May 2026 261
June 2026 242
July 2026 262
August 2026 269

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

CO10

54.0

Suffolk Constabulary

64.8

2,716 records and 50,300 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of CO10 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in CO10

Published street-crime records in CO10, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright

Records by part of CO10: the south-east 1,963, the east 274, the west 147, the north-west 147, the north-east 103, the south 67, the north 48, the south-west 23, the centre 1.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of CO10's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CO10's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of CO10 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CO10 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for CO10 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 3,271
2022 3,567
2023 3,044
2024 2,818
2025 2,650
2026 (part year) 1,925

Is CO10 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CO10 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in CO10 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

Moving home? Read how to check crime rates before buying a house. Browse all postcode districts

Police forces

CO10's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Suffolk Constabulary (96.6%), Essex Police (3.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.1%), Norfolk Constabulary (0.1%), Bedfordshire Police (0.0%) and Dyfed-Powys Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in CO10

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
CO10 0 583
CO10 1 559
CO10 2 429
CO10 5 51
CO10 6 443
CO10 7 208
CO10 8 219
CO10 9 224

Council areas

CO10 is mostly in the Babergh council area, and also covers parts of the West Suffolk council area and the Braintree council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 50,300 Census 2021 residents of CO10.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About CO10 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £318,000 (407)
2025 £325,000 (887)
2024 £310,000 (726)
2023 £323,750 (712)
2022 £325,000 (919)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £480,000 (144) £305,000 (122) £253,000 (120) £144,500 (21)
2025 £442,000 (353) £311,000 (226) £253,500 (242) £175,000 (66)
2024 £440,000 (265) £297,500 (221) £247,500 (194) £150,000 (46)
2023 £450,000 (278) £310,000 (193) £255,000 (193) £165,000 (48)
2022 £460,000 (323) £315,000 (264) £262,500 (252) £168,000 (80)

Schools and colleges

23 open establishments with a postcode in CO10, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 23 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Acton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Belchamp St Paul Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Boxford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Cavendish Church of England Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Clare Community Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Glemsford Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Great Waldingfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Hundon Community Primary School Primary Community school
Lavenham Community Primary School Primary Community school
Long Melford Church of England Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Pot Kiln Primary School Primary Community school
St Andrew's Bulmer Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
St Gregory Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Primary Academy converter
Tudor Church of England Primary School, Sudbury Primary Academy sponsor led
Wells Hall Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Woodhall Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Ormiston Sudbury Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Stour Valley Community School Secondary Free schools
Thomas Gainsborough School Secondary Academy converter
Chalk Hill – Academy special sponsor led
Hillside Special School – Community special school
The Ryes College – Other independent special school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High68
Medium26
Low56
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 1,639 postcodes in CO10 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit60.5%79.6%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)89.1%96.8%

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CrimeMapsUK. CO10 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/co10/

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