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CO14 crime rate and statistics
The CO14 postcode district, in the CO (Colchester) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 706 street-crime records for CO14 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 18.9% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 98.3 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
706
Latest month (August 2026)
68
Year-on-year
+18.9%
Month-by-month totals
860
60
Sep
48
Oct
52
Nov
55
Dec
43
Jan
46
Feb
39
Mar
70
Apr
77
May
62
Jun
86
Jul
68
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
60
October 2025
48
November 2025
52
December 2025
55
January 2026
43
February 2026
46
March 2026
39
April 2026
70
May 2026
77
June 2026
62
July 2026
86
August 2026
68
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.
CO14
98.3
Essex Police
89.7
706 records and 7,181 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 CO14 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences47.2%
333 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour13.0%
92 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson11.0%
78 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order7.2%
51 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting5.2%
37 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft5.1%
36 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime3.4%
24 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Other crime2.0%
14 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Where records cluster in CO14
Records by part of CO14: the south 199, the south-east 162, the south-west 154, the north-east 145, the east 64, the centre 5.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of CO14's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CO14'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 CO14 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CO14 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for CO14 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
684
2022
725
2023
615
2024
607
2025
629
2026 (part year)
491
Is CO14 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CO14 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 59 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 86.
Records here changed by +18.9% on the 12 months before, against +7.7% across the Essex Police area over the same months. With 706 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 47.2% 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 CO14 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 7,181 Census 2021 residents of CO14.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 67.4% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
24%1
43%2
0%3
28%4
5%5
0%6
0%7
0%8
0%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 CO14 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)
£267,000 (74)
2025
£254,000 (142)
2024
£269,050 (108)
2023
£270,000 (93)
2022
£252,500 (156)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£327,500 (31)
£257,250 (26)
£230,000 (11)
£142,500 (6)
2025
£317,500 (52)
£260,000 (39)
£192,875 (28)
£165,000 (23)
2024
£310,000 (45)
£261,250 (30)
£195,000 (20)
£151,000 (13)
2023
£335,000 (27)
£275,000 (31)
£230,000 (21)
£162,500 (14)
2022
£325,000 (41)
£268,500 (44)
£212,500 (32)
£175,000 (39)
Schools and colleges
2 open establishments with a postcode in CO14, 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
25
Medium
1
Low
15
Very low
19
Broadband
Share of the 247 postcodes in CO14 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
37.7%
67.6%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
97.6%
99.6%
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