Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 5 secondary schools. Laleham Gap School is the nearest published school at 345 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT12 5LP
Northwood · Thanet · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Northwood
- Local authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet
- Postcode district
- CT12
- Postcode sector
- CT12 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT12 5LP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT12
- Postcode sector
- CT12 5
- Latitude
- 51.352857
- Longitude
- 1.389373
- British National Grid easting
- 636,094
- British National Grid northing
- 166,984
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Thanet · E07000114
- Electoral ward
- Northwood · E05005096
- Parish or community
- E04010586
- Westminster constituency
- East Thanet · E14001216
- Output area
- E00125322
- Lower layer super output area
- Thanet 011B · E01024688
- Middle layer super output area
- Thanet 011 · E02005142
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 CT12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 5
- 345 m
Laleham Gap School
Foundation special school
- 369 m
The Royal Harbour Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 770 m
Dame Janet Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,455
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,042
- Shoplifting 341
- Anti social behaviour 249
- Criminal damage and arson 206
- Other theft 174
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT12 5 residents
- 3,251
Age bands in CT12 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.2%
449 residents
291 residents
611 residents
893 residents
754 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
11
within 5 km
NEWINGTON ROAD SURGERY
100 NEWINGTON ROAD, RAMSGATE, CT12 6EW
ODS code G82150
1.3 km
SUMMERHILL SURGERY
243 MARGATE ROAD, RAMSGATE, CT12 6SU
ODS code G82046
1.4 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
THANET COMMUNITY HEALTH HUB, NORTHWOOD ROAD, BROADSTAIRS, CT10 2RZ
ODS code G82219
1.5 km
MOCKETTS WOOD SURGERY
HOPEVILLE AVENUE, ST. PETERS, BROADSTAIRS, CT10 2TR
ODS code G82650
2.5 km
EAST CLIFF MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTRE, DUMPTON PARK DRIVE, RAMSGATE, CT11 8AD
ODS code G82126
3.1 km
THE GRANGE PRACTICE
THE MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTRE, DUMPTON PARK DRIVE, RAMSGATE, CT11 8AD
ODS code G82020
3.1 km
BROADSTAIRS MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE BROADWAY, BROADSTAIRS, CT10 2AJ
ODS code G82796
3.2 km
NORTHDOWN & DASHWOOD SURGERY
NORTHDOWN PARK ROAD, MARGATE, CT9 2TR
ODS code G82066
3.5 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
TRINITY SQUARE, MARGATE, CT9 1QY
ODS code G82052
4.3 km
BETHESDA MEDICAL CENTRE
PALM BAY AVENUE, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, CT9 3NR
ODS code G82105
4.5 km
WESTGATE SURGERY
60 WESTGATE BAY AVENUE, WESTGATE-ON-SEA, CT8 8SN
ODS code G82079
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
New Haine Road
BCT · Westwood
- 0.1 miles
New Haine Road
BCT · Westwood
- 0.3 miles
Royal Harbour Academy Marlowe Way
BCT · Newington
- 0.3 miles
Royal Harbour Academy Marlowe Way
BCT · Newington
- 0.3 miles
Royal Harbour Academy Marlowe Way
BCT · Newington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Thanet 011B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,295 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
2,455 published events cover 12 months, averaging 204.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,042 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.