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CO11 crime rate and statistics
The CO11 postcode district, in the CO (Colchester) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 680 street-crime records for CO11 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 9.7% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 48.7 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 89.7 for Essex Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
680
Latest month (August 2026)
48
Year-on-year
+9.7%
Month-by-month totals
740
66
Sep
42
Oct
59
Nov
46
Dec
63
Jan
46
Feb
58
Mar
54
Apr
65
May
74
Jun
59
Jul
48
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
66
October 2025
42
November 2025
59
December 2025
46
January 2026
63
February 2026
46
March 2026
58
April 2026
54
May 2026
65
June 2026
74
July 2026
59
August 2026
48
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.
CO11
48.7
Essex Police
89.7
680 records and 13,961 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 CO11 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Records by part of CO11: the north-west 276, the west 164, the centre 86, the south-east 48, the south 38, the north-east 34, the east 31, the south-west 8, the north 3.
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 CO11's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CO11'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 CO11 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CO11 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for CO11 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
688
2022
598
2023
561
2024
584
2025
631
2026 (part year)
467
Is CO11 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CO11 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 57 records a month. The busiest month was June 2026, with 74.
Records here changed by +9.7% on the 12 months before, against +5.8% across the Essex Police area, the main force here with 88.5% of CO11's records, over the same months. With 680 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 42.8% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in CO11 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
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 13,961 Census 2021 residents of CO11.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 13.8% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
0%3
11%4
26%5
12%6
17%7
20%8
14%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
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 CO11 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.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£316,500 (120)
2025
£372,500 (383)
2024
£352,500 (375)
2023
£370,000 (298)
2022
£362,000 (401)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£455,000 (47)
£315,000 (40)
£253,000 (22)
£185,000 (11)
2025
£485,000 (169)
£335,000 (114)
£310,000 (72)
£175,000 (28)
2024
£460,000 (149)
£321,000 (133)
£299,995 (74)
£175,000 (19)
2023
£486,250 (140)
£320,000 (102)
£265,000 (35)
£190,000 (21)
2022
£475,000 (190)
£312,500 (132)
£275,000 (52)
£212,500 (27)
Schools and colleges
8 open establishments with a postcode in CO11, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
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 band
Postcodes
High
16
Medium
12
Low
15
Very low
49
Broadband
Share of the 569 postcodes in CO11 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.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
75.6%
92.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
91.9%
98.4%
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