Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 6 secondary schools. Dover College is the nearest published school at 290 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT16 1BP
Town & Castle · Dover · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Town & Castle
- Local authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal
- Postcode district
- CT16
- Postcode sector
- CT16 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT16 1BP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2003
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT16
- Postcode sector
- CT16 1
- Latitude
- 51.127285
- Longitude
- 1.311814
- British National Grid easting
- 631,826
- British National Grid northing
- 141,660
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Dover · E07000108
- Electoral ward
- Town & Castle · E05012869
- Parish or community
- E04004932
- Westminster constituency
- Dover and Deal · E14001202
- Output area
- E00122932
- Lower layer super output area
- Dover 013B · E01024215
- Middle layer super output area
- Dover 013 · E02005053
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 CT16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 6
- 290 m
Dover College
Other independent school
- 403 m
Dover, St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 614 m
St Richard's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,076
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,585
- Anti social behaviour 591
- Shoplifting 455
- Criminal damage and arson 376
- Other theft 255
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT16 1 residents
- 4,093
Age bands in CT16 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.6%
588 residents
438 residents
1,138 residents
1,146 residents
965 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
PENCESTER SURGERY
10 PENCESTER ROAD, DOVER, CT16 1BW
ODS code G82015
17 m
ST JAMES' SURGERY
2 HAROLD STREET, DOVER, CT16 1SF
ODS code G82002
313 m
HIGH STREET SURGERY
100-106 HIGH STREET, DOVER, CT16 1EQ
ODS code G82117
517 m
WHITE CLIFFS MEDICAL CENTRE
143 FOLKESTONE ROAD, DOVER, CT17 9SG
ODS code G82729
790 m
BUCKLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
BUCKLAND AVENUE, DOVER, CT16 2NP
ODS code G82700
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Pencester Road
BCT · Dover
- 0.0 miles
Pencester Road
BCT · Dover
- 0.0 miles
Pencester Road
BCT · Dover
- 0.0 miles
Pencester Road
BCT · Dover
- 0.0 miles
Pencester Road
BCT · Dover
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dover 013B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
714 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
4,076 published events cover 12 months, averaging 339.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,585 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.