Colchester 008A
NeighbourhoodEast Colchester. 1,706 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.3 square kilometres.
Deprivation by neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025
In the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, Colchester 008A is in decile 1.
How Colchester 008A compares
Each dot is a neighbourhood. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Colchester 008A safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Colchester 008A at a rate of 274.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 170.8 per 1,000 people across Greenstead.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 45 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Colchester 008A.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (154), shoplifting (126) and other crime (70).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Colchester
These figures are published for the whole of Colchester, not for each neighbourhood, so they describe all of Colchester and not Colchester 008A alone. See Colchester
Colchester 008A in brief
Colchester 008A has a deprivation score of 60.4 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Colchester 008A had 1,552 usual residents at the census.
In Colchester 008A, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Colchester 008A, 7.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.