Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Palmarsh Primary School is the nearest published school at 947 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT21 4FY
Hythe Rural · Folkestone and Hythe · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hythe Rural
- Local authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Postcode district
- CT21
- Postcode sector
- CT21 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT21 4FY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT21
- Postcode sector
- CT21 4
- Latitude
- 51.056364
- Longitude
- 1.041221
- British National Grid easting
- 613,222
- British National Grid northing
- 132,958
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Folkestone and Hythe · E07000112
- Electoral ward
- Hythe Rural · E05010021
- Parish or community
- E04005020
- Westminster constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe · E14001239
- Output area
- E00190204
- Lower layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 009B · E01024530
- Middle layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 009 · E02005110
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 CT21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 947 m
Palmarsh Primary School
Community school
- 2.4 km
Lympne Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.9 km
Hythe Bay CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 106
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 55
- Criminal damage and arson 15
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Other theft 8
- Drugs 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT21 4 residents
- 4,983
Age bands in CT21 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.1%
672 residents
430 residents
859 residents
1,375 residents
1,437 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
3
within 5 km
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
STADE STREET, HYTHE, CT21 6BD
ODS code G82160
3.2 km
SUN LANE
5 SUN LANE, HYTHE, CT21 5JY
ODS code G82018
3.7 km
MARTELLO HEALTH CENTRE
20 CHAPEL ROAD, DYMCHURCH, ROMNEY MARSH, TN29 0TD
ODS code G82665
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Martello Lakes
BCT · Hythe
- 0.2 miles
Martello Lakes
BCT · Hythe
- 0.4 miles
Botolph's Bridge Road
BCT · Hythe
- 0.4 miles
Botolph's Bridge Road
BCT · Hythe
- 0.4 miles
Palmarsh Avenue
BCT · Hythe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Folkestone and Hythe 009B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,987 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
106 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 55 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.