Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 6 secondary schools. Dover College is the nearest published school at 376 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT17 9WA
Town & Castle · Dover · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Town & Castle
- Local authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal
- Postcode district
- CT17
- Postcode sector
- CT17 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT17 9WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 November 2002
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT17
- Postcode sector
- CT17 9
- Latitude
- 51.124511
- Longitude
- 1.305583
- British National Grid easting
- 631,404
- British National Grid northing
- 141,332
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
- E00122931
- 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 CT17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 6
- 376 m
Dover College
Other independent school
- 633 m
Priory Fields School
Academy converter
- 754 m
Vale View Community School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,246
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,645
- Anti social behaviour 604
- Shoplifting 508
- Criminal damage and arson 400
- Other theft 268
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT17 9 residents
- 9,732
Age bands in CT17 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
1,758 residents
1,112 residents
2,666 residents
2,559 residents
1,692 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
WHITE CLIFFS MEDICAL CENTRE
143 FOLKESTONE ROAD, DOVER, CT17 9SG
ODS code G82729
276 m
PENCESTER SURGERY
10 PENCESTER ROAD, DOVER, CT16 1BW
ODS code G82015
551 m
HIGH STREET SURGERY
100-106 HIGH STREET, DOVER, CT16 1EQ
ODS code G82117
610 m
ST JAMES' SURGERY
2 HAROLD STREET, DOVER, CT16 1SF
ODS code G82002
845 m
BUCKLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
BUCKLAND AVENUE, DOVER, CT16 2NP
ODS code G82700
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dover Priory Railway Station
BCT · Dover
- 0.1 miles
Dover Priory Rail Station
TXR · Dover
- 0.1 miles
Malvern Road
BCT · Dover
- 0.1 miles
Dover Priory Railway Station
BCT · Dover
- 0.1 miles
Dover Priory Rail Station
RLY · 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
4,246 published events cover 12 months, averaging 353.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,645 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.