Greenstead Road
Colchester, Essex, England
Reality check: Recorded indicators: area-safety proxy 45/100; transport-stop proximity 90/100; daily amenities 30/100; flood mapping 90/100; green-space proximity 41/100. These indicators do not establish personal suitability or future property returns.
Compare Profile Scores
Each profile applies different weights to the available indicators; it does not determine personal suitability.
Available components: liquidity proxy 90/100; market proxy 65/100. Recorded median sale price: £180,000 from 161 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
Available components: area-safety proxy 45/100; family indicators 65/100; green-space proximity 41/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 30%, Family indicators 30%, Environment 20%, Amenities 10%, Energy 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 90/100; amenity proximity 45/100; daily amenities 30/100; market proxy 65/100. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transport 35%, Walkability 30%, Amenities 25%, Market 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: liquidity proxy 90/100; market proxy 65/100. Recorded median sale price: £180,000 from 161 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transaction activity 50%, Market 50%; no return forecast. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: area-safety proxy 45/100; green-space proximity 41/100; daily amenities 30/100; amenity proximity 45/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 25%, Environment 25%, Amenities 20%, Energy 15%, Walkability 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 90/100; daily amenities 30/100; area-safety proxy 45/100. Recorded median sale price: £180,000 from 161 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Affordability 40%, Transport 25%, Amenities 20%, Safety 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Flood mapping
The mapped street point is classified as Zone 1 in the Environment Agency planning dataset. This covers river and sea flooding; it does not assess every property or surface-water risk.
Dataset revision: 2026-05-20. This is the dataset revision date, not a property inspection date.
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Greenstead Road is located in Colchester, Essex. The associated LSOA area has 142 recorded incidents from 2025-08 to 2026-07. Incident rows were observed in 12 of the 12 selected months. These are area counts, not street-level incidents or population-adjusted rates; they do not establish a comparison with local or national averages. No nearby amenity records are available in this extract. Recorded nearby transport modes: rail and bus. The nearest mapped stop (Davey Close) is 65m away. Check current routes and service frequency with the operator. The median property price is £180,000. Based on 161 transactions recorded since 2014. LSOA source indicators: recorded population 1,365; owner-occupied homes 24.4%; social housing 4.6%; retired population 19%; average household size 2.3. There are 8 schools within 2 km, 8 rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Both primary and secondary options are available locally. Proximity does not establish admissions eligibility, catchment or personal suitability. The highest available weighted profile is investors at 78/100. This is a comparison of recorded inputs, not a recommendation or a forecast of returns. The available indicators produce a composite score of 57/100. Its recorded district percentile is 93. Missing dimensions are excluded; scores are proxies rather than measurements of personal liveability.
Score Breakdown
Scores are heuristic proxies from open datasets. Missing dimensions are excluded from the overall score. Source and scope are listed below.
police.uk recorded incident counts in the source extract; LSOA area, not street-level or population-adjusted
OpenStreetMap amenities within 2km
DfT NaPTAN + TfL stops
OpenStreetMap green-space proximity; distance-decay proxy, not noise or air quality
HM Land Registry price paid data
GIAS/Ofsted school records, mapped amenities, household and area-score indicators
Amenity and transport proximity proxy; no pedestrian network or route assessment
EPC Register — awaiting public API access
English Environment Agency planning zones; Welsh NRW categories are shown separately
Property Market
Terraced | Freehold | Transactions: High recorded volume
Source release: 2026-08-28; registrations received through 2026-07-31. Earlier periods can be revised by late registrations. Standard and additional transactions are included, so property mix can affect the median.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Open Government Licence v3.0). Median comparisons use two full calendar years five years apart, with at least five sales in each. Different properties may have sold; this is not a house-price index or a prediction of returns.
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Public Services Nearby
Public facilities within walking distance from Greenstead Road, with detailed information for each.
gyms & sports centres (3)
- Colchester Climbing Project 582m · 7 min walk
- Anytime Fitness 1110m · 14 min walk
- Gymophobics 1180m · 15 min walk
hospitals (3)
- Colchester Chiropractic Centre 1726m · 22 min walk
- Colchester Foot Clinic 1738m · 22 min walk
- Colchester Medical Aesthetics 1992m · 25 min walk
libraries (2)
- Greenstead library 806m · 10 min walk
- Colchester library 1854m · 23 min walk
parks & green spaces (5)
- Love Hill Lawn 580m · 7 min walk
- St. Andrews Park 604m · 8 min walk
- Greenstead Park 912m · 11 min walk
- Cowdray Marsh 1246m · 16 min walk
- Bourne Valley 1559m · 20 min walk
schools (5)
- Hazelmere Junior School 939m · 12 min walk
- Willow Brook Primary School and Nursery 1030m · 13 min walk
- Colchester Academy 1043m · 13 min walk
- Parsons Heath Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1445m · 18 min walk
- Friars Grove Primary School 1584m · 20 min walk
Transport Links
Similar Streets
Compared within this district using at least four shared score dimensions. Missing indicators are excluded.
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- Canterbury Road — Colchester58
Data Transparency
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- OS Open Roads — Crown copyright and database right
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data — Crown copyright
- police.uk crime data — Open Government Licence v3.0
- OpenStreetMap — ODbL licence
- DfT NaPTAN — Open Government Licence v3.0
- GIAS schools data — Crown copyright
- Environment Agency flood data — OGL v3.0
- ONS Census 2021 — Open Government Licence v3.0
All scores are computed from publicly available government and open data. No proprietary data is used. Scores reflect statistical patterns, not guarantees.
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