Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 6 secondary schools. River Primary School is the nearest published school at 756 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT17 0YZ
Dover Downs & River · Dover · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dover Downs & River
- Local authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal
- Postcode district
- CT17
- Postcode sector
- CT17 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT17 0YZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT17
- Postcode sector
- CT17 0
- Latitude
- 51.140130
- Longitude
- 1.283764
- British National Grid easting
- 629,800
- British National Grid northing
- 143,000
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
- E04004917
- Westminster constituency
- Dover and Deal · E14001202
- Output area
- E00123020
- Lower layer super output area
- Dover 010C · E01024233
- 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 CT17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 6
- 756 m
River Primary School
Community school
- 887 m
White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 963 m
Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,901
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 878
- Anti social behaviour 281
- Criminal damage and arson 215
- Shoplifting 132
- Other theft 72
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT17 0 residents
- 12,546
Age bands in CT17 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
2,560 residents
1,390 residents
3,502 residents
3,093 residents
2,207 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 straight-line
BUCKLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
BUCKLAND AVENUE, DOVER, CT16 2NP
ODS code G82700
956 m
HIGH STREET SURGERY
100-106 HIGH STREET, DOVER, CT16 1EQ
ODS code G82117
1.9 km
WHITE CLIFFS MEDICAL CENTRE
143 FOLKESTONE ROAD, DOVER, CT17 9SG
ODS code G82729
2.2 km
PENCESTER SURGERY
10 PENCESTER ROAD, DOVER, CT16 1BW
ODS code G82015
2.4 km
ST JAMES' SURGERY
2 HAROLD STREET, DOVER, CT16 1SF
ODS code G82002
2.6 km
LYDDEN SURGERY
114 CANTERBURY ROAD, LYDDEN, DOVER, CT15 7ET
ODS code G82227
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Crabble Lane
BCT · Crabble
- 0.1 miles
Crabble Lane
BCT · Crabble
- 0.1 miles
Crabble Avenue
BCT · Crabble
- 0.1 miles
Crabble Avenue
BCT · Crabble
- 0.1 miles
River Drive
BCT · River
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dover 010C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,925 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
1,901 published events cover 12 months, averaging 158.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 878 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.