Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ravens Academy is the nearest published school at 758 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO16 8HZ
West Clacton & Jaywick Sands · Tendring · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO16 8HZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO16
- Postcode sector
- CO16 8
- Latitude
- 51.799025
- Longitude
- 1.116598
- British National Grid easting
- 614,989
- British National Grid northing
- 215,746
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Tendring · E07000076
- Electoral ward
- West Clacton & Jaywick Sands · E05011963
- Parish or community
- E43000258
- Westminster constituency
- Clacton · E14001174
- Output area
- E00188163
- Lower layer super output area
- Tendring 013C · E01021977
- Middle layer super output area
- Tendring 013 · E02004585
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CO16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 758 m
Ravens Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 956 m
St Clare's Catholic Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Minerva Independent School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,043
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 523
- Criminal damage and arson 94
- Other theft 83
- Anti social behaviour 78
- Vehicle crime 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO16 8 residents
- 12,627
Age bands in CO16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.5%
2,038 residents
1,219 residents
2,614 residents
3,409 residents
3,522 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
CLACTON COMMUNITY PRACTICES
32 CROSSWAYS, JAYWICK, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 2NB
ODS code F81681
2.0 km
OLD ROAD SURGERY
147-149 OLD ROAD, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 3AU
ODS code F81212
2.2 km
RANWORTH SURGERY
103 PIER AVENUE, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 1NJ
ODS code F81156
2.4 km
ST. JAMES SURGERY
89 WASH LANE, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 1DA
ODS code F81052
2.5 km
EAST LYNNE MEDICAL CENTRE
3-5 WELLESLEY ROAD, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 3PP
ODS code F81037
2.5 km
NORTH CLACTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
UNIT 5, 7 & 8, CRUSADER BUSINESS PARK, STEPHENSON ROAD WEST, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 4TN
ODS code F81741
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chester Holiday Park
BCT · Bockings Elm
- 0.1 miles
Chester Holiday Park
BCT · Bockings Elm
- 0.2 miles
Jaywick Lane North
BCT · Bockings Elm
- 0.2 miles
Jaywick Lane
BCT · Bockings Elm
- 0.2 miles
Jaywick Lane
BCT · Bockings Elm
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tendring 013C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,275 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,043 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 523 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.