Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Palmarsh Primary School is the nearest published school at 543 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT21 6PT
Hythe Rural · Folkestone and Hythe · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hythe
- Ward
- Hythe Rural
- Local authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Postcode district
- CT21
- Postcode sector
- CT21 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT21 6PT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT21
- Postcode sector
- CT21 6
- Latitude
- 51.065520
- Longitude
- 1.056397
- British National Grid easting
- 614,243
- British National Grid northing
- 134,020
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
- E00124508
- Lower layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 010D · E01024529
- Middle layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 010 · E02005111
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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Chestnut Close, Hythe, CT21 6PT | 21 March 2016 | £240,000 |
| 2, Chestnut Close, Hythe, CT21 6PT | 3 December 2013 | £175,000 |
| 4, Chestnut Close, Hythe, CT21 6PT | 20 September 2013 | £243,750 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 543 m
Palmarsh Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Hythe Bay CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.8 km
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 250
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 104
- Criminal damage and arson 36
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Shoplifting 21
- Public order 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- CT21 6 residents
- 6,165
9 female, 6 male
Age bands in CT21 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.9%
806 residents
498 residents
1,075 residents
1,789 residents
2,044 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CT21 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
STADE STREET, HYTHE, CT21 6BD
ODS code G82160
1.9 km
SUN LANE
5 SUN LANE, HYTHE, CT21 5JY
ODS code G82018
2.3 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Shepherds Walk
BCT · Hythe
- 0.1 miles
Shepherds Walk
BCT · Hythe
- 0.1 miles
Prince of Wales
BCT · Hythe
- 0.1 miles
Prince of Wales
BCT · Hythe
- 0.2 miles
Meadow Way
BCT · Hythe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Folkestone and Hythe 010D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,310 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
250 published events cover 12 months, averaging 20.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 104 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.