CO5 1

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31 people · Colchester

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High wellbeing

Colchester Council · Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition 30/51 seats · 59% · OCD 2026

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How safe is it? This postcode sector

We don’t hold a separate crime rate for CO5 1, so this is the wider Colchester district: 10 per 1,000 residents a month — above the 9.9 average across districts Acreright covers. The trend and category mix here are CO5 1’s own.

Crime rate

Monthly recorded crimes across the whole postcode sector

District crime rate10 / 1,000 / mo

Average across Acreright-covered districts9.9

Per-1,000 rate is the wider Colchester district — we don’t hold a separate population-based rate for CO5 1 · police.uk / ONS

By category, 12 months from Colchester

Violence and sexual offences

5,883

Anti-social behaviour

1,361

Shoplifting

1,041

Public order

935

Criminal damage and arson

918

Other theft

880

Recorded crimes by category across the whole Colchester district, last 12 months · police.uk / Home Office

Where crime clusters

On or near	Crimes
Supermarket	610
Parking Area	217
Police Station	185
Petrol Station	178
Avon Way	90

Busiest anonymised "on or near" markers over the last 6 months — click a row to centre the crime map there · retail-heavy spots naturally rank high (shoplifting concentrates where the shops are), and some forces log crimes at their police station, so a station can rank high without the crime happening there · police.uk

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