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East of England

Colchester

6th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 2,645 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.
NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Colchester yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
110/543
health
207/543
income
219/543
housing
333/543
education
292/543
employment
273/543
environment
461/543

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Identified resource gaps

crime MODERATE
Rank 110/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
income LOW
Rank 219/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
646 income-focused charities, 3105 employees
health LOW
Rank 207/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
1449 health-focused charities, 15209 employees
GP ratio: 1:2645 (above 1:2000 threshold)

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

4151 registered charities

4,151
Charities
£42,206,914
Grants to HQ'd charities
22,187
Employees
207,834
Volunteers
25.5%
Govt funded
LOW
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

THOMAS PARKER
THE POOR'S ESTATE
JOHN PUCKLE FOR THE POOR
REVEREND C A JONES
JOHN COWLIN
ELIZABETH WARNER COTTAGE
REMEMBRANCES COTTAGES
JOHN CARMICHAEL WHITTAKER
CHARLES SMITH
MARY FOUNTAIN

GP and primary care

9
GP practices
59
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,645
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 445 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Colchester, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 10,000
Education 5,000
Social Care 4,500
Construction 1,775
Transport 1,600
Environment / Green 310

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

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