Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 6 secondary schools. The Sallygate School is the nearest published school at 43 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT16 3EG
Dover Downs & River · Dover · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dover
- Ward
- Dover Downs & River
- Local authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal
- Postcode district
- CT16
- Postcode sector
- CT16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT16 3EG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT16
- Postcode sector
- CT16 3
- Latitude
- 51.148285
- Longitude
- 1.270742
- British National Grid easting
- 628,849
- British National Grid northing
- 143,866
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Dover · E07000108
- Electoral ward
- Dover Downs & River · E05012858
- Parish or community
- E04004925
- Westminster constituency
- Dover and Deal · E14001202
- Output area
- E00122910
- Lower layer super output area
- Dover 010G · E01033210
- Middle layer super output area
- Dover 010 · E02005050
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Presbytery, Alkham Road, Temple Ewell, Dover, CT16 3EG | 2 August 2019 | £1,800,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 6
- 43 m
The Sallygate School
Other independent special school
- 533 m
Temple Ewell Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 558 m
River Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 431
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 181
- Anti social behaviour 74
- Shoplifting 41
- Criminal damage and arson 39
- Vehicle crime 26
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT16 3 residents
- 6,386
Age bands in CT16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.9%
916 residents
516 residents
1,333 residents
1,706 residents
1,906 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
BUCKLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
BUCKLAND AVENUE, DOVER, CT16 2NP
ODS code G82700
2.2 km
LYDDEN SURGERY
114 CANTERBURY ROAD, LYDDEN, DOVER, CT15 7ET
ODS code G82227
2.7 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
100-106 HIGH STREET, DOVER, CT16 1EQ
ODS code G82117
3.2 km
WHITE CLIFFS MEDICAL CENTRE
143 FOLKESTONE ROAD, DOVER, CT17 9SG
ODS code G82729
3.4 km
PENCESTER SURGERY
10 PENCESTER ROAD, DOVER, CT16 1BW
ODS code G82015
3.7 km
ST JAMES' SURGERY
2 HAROLD STREET, DOVER, CT16 1SF
ODS code G82002
3.8 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
Abbey
BCT · Kearsney
- 0.1 miles
Abbey
BCT · Kearsney
- 0.1 miles
Kearsney Rail Station
RSE · Kearsney
- 0.1 miles
Kearsney Rail Station
RLY · Kearsney
- 0.1 miles
Kearsney Rail Station
RSE · Kearsney
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dover 010G, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,157 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Possible
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
431 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 181 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.