Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 6 secondary schools. Whitfield Aspen School is the nearest published school at 827 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT16 3QT
Whitfield · Dover · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whitfield
- Local authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal
- Postcode district
- CT16
- Postcode sector
- CT16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT16 3QT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT16
- Postcode sector
- CT16 3
- Latitude
- 51.166583
- Longitude
- 1.294356
- British National Grid easting
- 630,409
- British National Grid northing
- 145,974
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Dover · E07000108
- Electoral ward
- Whitfield · E05012871
- Parish or community
- E04004927
- Westminster constituency
- Dover and Deal · E14001202
- Output area
- E00123148
- Lower layer super output area
- Dover 008D · E01024255
- Middle layer super output area
- Dover 008 · E02005048
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
- 28
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 6
- 827 m
Whitfield Aspen School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Dover Christ Church Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.4 km
Green Park Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 348
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 93
- Shoplifting 73
- Anti social behaviour 55
- Other theft 33
- Criminal damage and arson 31
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.
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
6
within 5 km
BUCKLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
BUCKLAND AVENUE, DOVER, CT16 2NP
ODS code G82700
3.2 km
LYDDEN SURGERY
114 CANTERBURY ROAD, LYDDEN, DOVER, CT15 7ET
ODS code G82227
3.8 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
100-106 HIGH STREET, DOVER, CT16 1EQ
ODS code G82117
4.1 km
ST JAMES' SURGERY
2 HAROLD STREET, DOVER, CT16 1SF
ODS code G82002
4.5 km
PENCESTER SURGERY
10 PENCESTER ROAD, DOVER, CT16 1BW
ODS code G82015
4.5 km
WHITE CLIFFS MEDICAL CENTRE
143 FOLKESTONE ROAD, DOVER, CT17 9SG
ODS code G82729
4.7 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
- 0.2 miles
Forge Lane
BCT · Whitfield
- 0.2 miles
Forge Path
BCT · Whitfield
- 0.2 miles
Forge Path
BCT · Whitfield
- 0.3 miles
Nursery Lane
BCT · Whitfield
- 0.4 miles
Guilford Avenue
BCT · Whitfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dover 008D, 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
22,423 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
348 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 93 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.