12Rooms available
27 Magdalen Street
0.4 mi from centre6 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Kitchen
- En-suite
- Bills included
- +2 more
Rooms available
From
£153/week
UK8 stays listedFrom £153/week1 universities
Student accommodation in Colchester
8 stays in Colchester
8 places in Colchester
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19Rooms available
Elmstead Place
1.7 mi from centre10 room types
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
- 24/7 security
- +8 more
Rooms available
10Rooms available
The Maltings
1.4 mi from centre8 room types
44–49 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Gym
- Parking
- 24/7 security
- +3 more
Rooms available
From
£168/week
25Availability on enquiry
Enso
1.4 mi from centre12 room types
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +12 more
Availability on enquiry
Pricing
On enquiry
16Rooms available
The Copse
1.6 mi from centreRooms on request
- Study space
- Kitchen
- En-suite
- Contents insurance
Rooms available
Pricing
On enquiry
15Rooms available
The Meadows
1.8 mi from centreRooms on request
- Communal lounge
- Kitchen
- Contents insurance
- Cleaning included
Rooms available
Pricing
On enquiry
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Studios17from £160/weekA private bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen in one self-contained space.En-suite rooms5from £153/weekA private bathroom with a kitchen and living space shared with flatmates.Apartments14from £168/weekA multi-room home suited to friends or students who want more shared living space.
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The Pastures
1.7 mi from centreRooms on request
- Study space
- Communal lounge
- Kitchen
- En-suite
- +1 more
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19Rooms available
University Quays
2.2 mi from centreRooms on request
- Study space
- Kitchen
- En-suite
- Contents insurance
Rooms available
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Start with your university
Pick a university and see the buildings around it, with the walk or the ride to campus on every one.
Neighbourhoods
Where to look in Colchester
Use these established student areas as starting points, then compare each property's rent and route to your university.
Where students live in Colchester
Areas students actually take rooms in, with the buildings closest to each one. Matched by location, so a building appears under the area it stands in rather than the area its marketing claims.
Greenstead
The housing that backs straight onto the Essex campus, so the commute is measured in minutes, and it goes quiet the moment teaching stops. The first place anyone here looks.
- Elmstead Placefrom £160/week
The Hythe
Along the Colne between the campus and the town, with its own railway halt and a steady run of newer blocks. Industrial edges, good connections.
- Ensofrom £160/week
- The Maltingsfrom £168/week
- The Pasturesprice on enquiry
New Town and Old Heath
South of the centre, terraced and less expensive, with a longer walk and no particular student concentration.
- 27 Magdalen Streetfrom £153/week
- The Meadowsprice on enquiry
- University Quaysprice on enquiry
Highwoods and Mile End
North of the town, residential and further from everything, with a country park attached. Cheap, and you will want the bus timetable.
- The Copseprice on enquiry
Useful to know nearby
Places students in Colchester actually use. We have no arrangement with any of them.
- Colchester Library
Public study space in the historic centre.
- University bus routes
Services connecting the town centre, Hythe and the University of Essex at Wivenhoe Park.
- Castle Park
Large free public park beside the town centre and main shopping streets.
- Hythe station
A local rail stop near riverside student housing and routes towards the university.
A few Colchester buildings worth a look
Picked by distance, price and choice, measured from the listings on this page. Not a ranking, and not a recommendation: the numbers are what they are on the day you read this.
- University Quaysunder 0.1 miles
Closest to University of Essex
- 27 Magdalen Streetfrom £153/week
Lowest listed rent here
- Enso12 room types
Most room types to choose from
What to know before choosing a room in Colchester
A city-by-city note about the decisions that change your daily routine. Prices and availability remain live in the listings above.
Colchester is the oldest recorded town in Britain and the University of Essex is one of the newest-looking campuses in it, which makes for an odd pair. The Roman walls, the castle and the high street sit in the middle; Essex is two miles east at Wivenhoe Park, built in the 1960s around a sequence of raised concrete squares and towers. Almost nothing about living here is decided by the town, and almost everything by how far you want to be from those squares.
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Room types, what bills included really covers, when to book, and what to check if you are arriving from abroad.
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Getting around Colchester
The 61, 62 and 64 buses run between the town and the Essex campus and are the service most students here rely on; allow fifteen to twenty minutes. Colchester has three stations and the distinction matters: Colchester Town is central, Colchester mainline station is a walk north west of the centre with the fast London services, and Hythe and Wivenhoe both sit on the branch line past the campus. London Liverpool Street is around an hour. The town and the campus are both flat and the riverside path along the Colne makes a decent traffic-free cycle between them.
Universities in Colchester
Frequently asked questions
- Everything we list in Colchester is in Greenstead, The Hythe, New Town and Old Heath, and Highwoods and Mile End. Buildings are filed by their coordinates, not by the area their marketing claims, so the table above puts each one where it actually stands.
- Only 1 of the 8 buildings in Colchester publish it, so this is a city to ask the question in. The other 7 may well include bills and have simply never said so in writing.