Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
Crime in CO7 6
The CO7 6 postcode sector, in the CO (Colchester) postcode area, with most records published by Suffolk Constabulary.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 278 street-crime records for CO7 6 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 25.2% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 46.3 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.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
278
Share of CO7
14.7%
Year-on-year
+25.2%
CO7 6 holds 14.7% of the 1,887 records assigned to CO7 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
25
October 2025
17
November 2025
16
December 2025
23
January 2026
25
February 2026
19
March 2026
28
April 2026
25
May 2026
31
June 2026
22
July 2026
35
August 2026
12
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.
CO7 6
46.3
Suffolk Constabulary
64.8
278 records and 5,999 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.
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: Suffolk Constabulary.
Category
CO7 6
CO7
Force
Violence and sexual offences
37.1%
43.7%
44.0%
Anti-social behaviour
12.2%
8.9%
8.1%
Burglary
10.4%
4.2%
3.6%
Vehicle crime
7.9%
7.6%
4.1%
Other theft
7.9%
7.5%
6.8%
Criminal damage and arson
7.6%
6.9%
9.2%
Public order
6.5%
6.5%
5.9%
Other crime
4.3%
2.6%
3.1%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for CO7 6 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
203
2022
263
2023
324
2024
226
2025
223
2026 (part year)
197
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.
Covers 100.0% of the 5,999 Census 2021 residents of CO7 6.
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%.
0%1
0%2
0%3
0%4
0%5
2%6
33%7
65%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.
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