Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hawkinge Primary School is the nearest published school at 62 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT18 7ZQ
North Downs East · Folkestone and Hythe · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- North Downs East
- Local authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Ashford
- Postcode district
- CT18
- Postcode sector
- CT18 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT18 7ZQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 January 2003
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT18
- Postcode sector
- CT18 7
- Latitude
- 51.115031
- Longitude
- 1.166112
- British National Grid easting
- 621,692
- British National Grid northing
- 139,849
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Folkestone and Hythe · E07000112
- Electoral ward
- North Downs East · E05010023
- Parish or community
- E04005019
- Westminster constituency
- Ashford · E14001069
- Output area
- E00124580
- Lower layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 002B · E01024541
- Middle layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 002 · E02005103
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 CT18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 62 m
Hawkinge Primary School
Foundation school
- 525 m
The Churchill School
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Folkestone Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 455
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 167
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Other theft 37
- Public order 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT18 7 residents
- 11,467
Age bands in CT18 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.9%
1,944 residents
1,153 residents
2,464 residents
3,186 residents
2,600 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
THE NEW SURGERY
128 CANTERBURY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT19 5SR
ODS code G82086
3.1 km
WHITE HOUSE SURGERY
1 CHERITON HIGH STREET, FOLKESTONE, CT19 4PU
ODS code G82069
3.4 km
GUILDHALL STREET SURGERY
65-69 GUILDHALL STREET, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1EJ
ODS code G82091
3.7 km
HARBOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOLKESTONE HEALTH CENTRE, 15-25 DOVER ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1JY
ODS code G82217
3.8 km
MANOR CLINIC
31 MANOR ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2SE
ODS code G82232
3.9 km
SANDGATE ROAD
180 SANDGATE ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2HN
ODS code G82121
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Hawkinge
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Hawkinge
- 0.1 miles
Heyford Close
BCT · Hawkinge
- 0.1 miles
Heyford Close
BCT · Hawkinge
- 0.2 miles
Aerodrome Road
BCT · Hawkinge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Folkestone and Hythe 002B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,349 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
455 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 167 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.