Crime in CO3 5

The CO3 5 postcode sector, in the CO (Colchester) postcode area, with most records published by Essex Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 337 street-crime records for CO3 5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.7% more than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.

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Last 12 published months

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

Street-crime records

337

Share of CO3

11.6%

Year-on-year

+2.7%

CO3 5 holds 11.6% of the 2,908 records assigned to CO3 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	38
October 2025	36
November 2025	32
December 2025	29
January 2026	15
February 2026	29
March 2026	25
April 2026	20
May 2026	27
June 2026	28
July 2026	37
August 2026	21

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

No Census 2021 residents are recorded for these postcodes, so no rate is shown.

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

Category mix compared

Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Essex Police.

Category	CO3 5	CO3	Force
Violence and sexual offences	42.4%	41.7%	40.4%
Shoplifting	11.6%	8.1%	8.3%
Vehicle crime	9.2%	5.5%	6.2%
Other theft	7.7%	6.1%	6.7%
Criminal damage and arson	6.8%	6.5%	7.5%
Anti-social behaviour	6.5%	12.8%	11.7%
Public order	4.5%	7.6%	6.6%
Other crime	3.6%	2.6%	2.0%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for CO3 5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	564
2022	435
2023	394
2024	382
2025	341
2026 (part year)	202

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 sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Full detail is on the methodology page and in what a postcode district crime page shows, which covers sectors too.

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CrimeMapsUK. CO3 5 postcode sector: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 31 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/sectors/co3-5/

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