Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Sandgate Primary School is the nearest published school at 393 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT20 2QQ
Sandgate & West Folkestone · Folkestone and Hythe · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Postcode district
- CT20
- Postcode sector
- CT20 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT20 2QQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 November 2002
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT20
- Postcode sector
- CT20 2
- Latitude
- 51.080037
- Longitude
- 1.157267
- British National Grid easting
- 621,240
- British National Grid northing
- 135,932
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Folkestone and Hythe · E07000112
- Electoral ward
- Sandgate & West Folkestone · E05010026
- Parish or community
- E04005040
- Westminster constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe · E14001239
- Output area
- E00124410
- Lower layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 006A · E01024511
- Middle layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 006 · E02005107
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 CT20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 393 m
Sandgate Primary School
Community school
- 394 m
School of English Studies
Miscellaneous
- 510 m
Earlscliffe (Sussex Summer Schools Ltd)
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,360
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,174
- Anti social behaviour 470
- Shoplifting 396
- Criminal damage and arson 349
- Other theft 205
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT20 2 residents
- 7,559
Age bands in CT20 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.2%
874 residents
609 residents
1,947 residents
2,091 residents
2,169 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
SANDGATE ROAD
180 SANDGATE ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2HN
ODS code G82121
404 m
MANOR CLINIC
31 MANOR ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2SE
ODS code G82232
1.1 km
WHITE HOUSE SURGERY
1 CHERITON HIGH STREET, FOLKESTONE, CT19 4PU
ODS code G82069
1.1 km
GUILDHALL STREET SURGERY
65-69 GUILDHALL STREET, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1EJ
ODS code G82091
1.5 km
HARBOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOLKESTONE HEALTH CENTRE, 15-25 DOVER ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1JY
ODS code G82217
1.7 km
THE NEW SURGERY
128 CANTERBURY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT19 5SR
ODS code G82086
2.0 km
SUN LANE
5 SUN LANE, HYTHE, CT21 5JY
ODS code G82018
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ravenlea Road
BCT · Folkestone
- 0.2 miles
Ravenlea Road
BCT · Folkestone
- 0.2 miles
Wellfield Road
BCT · Folkestone
- 0.2 miles
Wellfield Road
BCT · Folkestone
- 0.3 miles
Coolinge Lane
BCT · Folkestone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Folkestone and Hythe 006A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,400 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
3,360 published events cover 12 months, averaging 280 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,174 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.