Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Sandgate Primary School is the nearest published school at 174 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT20 3QS
Sandgate & West Folkestone · Folkestone and Hythe · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Folkestone
- Local authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Postcode district
- CT20
- Postcode sector
- CT20 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT20 3QS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2014
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT20
- Postcode sector
- CT20 3
- Latitude
- 51.080937
- Longitude
- 1.149889
- British National Grid easting
- 620,719
- British National Grid northing
- 136,010
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
- E04005041
- Westminster constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe · E14001239
- Output area
- E00124458
- Lower layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 005E · E01024520
- Middle layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 005 · E02005106
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Eversley College, Coolinge Lane, Folkestone, CT20 3QS | 19 April 2017 | £129,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 174 m
Sandgate Primary School
Community school
- 472 m
The Folkestone School for Girls
Academy converter
- 773 m
The Harvey Grammar School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,213
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 770
- Anti social behaviour 288
- Shoplifting 271
- Criminal damage and arson 225
- Other theft 159
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT20 3 residents
- 9,394
Age bands in CT20 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
1,559 residents
1,095 residents
2,461 residents
2,228 residents
1,676 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
WHITE HOUSE SURGERY
1 CHERITON HIGH STREET, FOLKESTONE, CT19 4PU
ODS code G82069
770 m
SANDGATE ROAD
180 SANDGATE ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2HN
ODS code G82121
804 m
MANOR CLINIC
31 MANOR ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2SE
ODS code G82232
1.6 km
GUILDHALL STREET SURGERY
65-69 GUILDHALL STREET, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1EJ
ODS code G82091
2.0 km
HARBOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOLKESTONE HEALTH CENTRE, 15-25 DOVER ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1JY
ODS code G82217
2.2 km
THE NEW SURGERY
128 CANTERBURY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT19 5SR
ODS code G82086
2.4 km
SUN LANE
5 SUN LANE, HYTHE, CT21 5JY
ODS code G82018
4.5 km
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
STADE STREET, HYTHE, CT21 6BD
ODS code G82160
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Golden Valley Shopping Centre
BCT · Shorncliffe
- 0.2 miles
Golden Valley Shopping Centre
BCT · Shorncliffe
- 0.2 miles
St Paul's Way
BCT · Sandgate
- 0.2 miles
Fenner Close
BCT · Shorncliffe
- 0.2 miles
Hook Close
BCT · Shorncliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Folkestone and Hythe 005E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,712 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
2,213 published events cover 12 months, averaging 184.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 770 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.