Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 6 secondary schools. Barton Junior School is the nearest published school at 240 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT16 2PL
Buckland · Dover · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Buckland
- Local authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal
- Postcode district
- CT16
- Postcode sector
- CT16 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT16 2PL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2012
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT16
- Postcode sector
- CT16 2
- Latitude
- 51.137211
- Longitude
- 1.304689
- British National Grid easting
- 631,278
- British National Grid northing
- 142,741
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Dover · E07000108
- Electoral ward
- Buckland · E05012857
- Parish or community
- E04004932
- Westminster constituency
- Dover and Deal · E14001202
- Output area
- E00122817
- Lower layer super output area
- Dover 011C · E01024195
- Middle layer super output area
- Dover 011 · E02005051
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
- 240 m
Barton Junior School
Academy converter
- 266 m
St Edmund's Catholic School
Academy sponsor led
- 322 m
Charlton Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,065
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,710
- Anti social behaviour 625
- Criminal damage and arson 419
- Shoplifting 324
- Other theft 215
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT16 2 residents
- 10,614
Age bands in CT16 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.1%
2,094 residents
1,241 residents
2,799 residents
2,684 residents
1,445 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
BUCKLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
BUCKLAND AVENUE, DOVER, CT16 2NP
ODS code G82700
557 m
HIGH STREET SURGERY
100-106 HIGH STREET, DOVER, CT16 1EQ
ODS code G82117
807 m
PENCESTER SURGERY
10 PENCESTER ROAD, DOVER, CT16 1BW
ODS code G82015
1.2 km
ST JAMES' SURGERY
2 HAROLD STREET, DOVER, CT16 1SF
ODS code G82002
1.2 km
WHITE CLIFFS MEDICAL CENTRE
143 FOLKESTONE ROAD, DOVER, CT17 9SG
ODS code G82729
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Cherry Tree Avenue
BCT · Buckland
- 0.2 miles
Charlton Primary School
BCT · Dover
- 0.3 miles
Cherry Tree Avenue
BCT · Buckland
- 0.3 miles
Cherry Tree Avenue
BCT · Buckland
- 0.3 miles
Dover Girls' Grammar School
BCT · Dover
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dover 011C, 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
8,856 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 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
4,065 published events cover 12 months, averaging 338.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,710 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.