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CO12 postcode district

CO12 holds 644 live postcodes around Harwich, in Tendring.

Towns and villages with their centre in CO12

#PlaceCounty / councilPopulation
1HarwichEssex20,723
2DovercourtEssex1,001
3Great OakleyEssex702
CO12 (centre of its postcodes) in the UK

Wards

NameShare of postcodes
Dovercourt All Saints22%
Harwich & Kingsway22%
The Oakleys & Wix12%
Dovercourt Tollgate12%
Dovercourt Bay11%
Dovercourt Vines & Parkeston11%
Stour Valley9%
"Thorpe1%

Westminster constituencies

NameShare of postcodes
Harwich and North Essex87%
Clacton13%

Deprivation

The middle postcode here sits in decile 3 of the English Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021-Census LSOAs), where decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods and 10 the least. 54% of this district's postcodes sit in the most deprived three deciles, 0% in the least deprived three.

Deprivation deciles describe the LSOA neighbourhood each postcode sits in, weighted by postcodes rather than by people, because the postcode file carries no population. A district where the deprived neighbourhoods are densely populated will read better here than it would per resident.

Neighbouring districts in the CO area

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