Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hope View School is the nearest published school at 422 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT4 8DT
Downs North · Ashford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Downs North
- Local authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent
- Postcode district
- CT4
- Postcode sector
- CT4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT4 8DT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2022
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT4
- Postcode sector
- CT4 8
- Latitude
- 51.244459
- Longitude
- 0.969538
- British National Grid easting
- 607,355
- British National Grid northing
- 153,665
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Ashford · E07000105
- Electoral ward
- Downs North · E05011751
- Parish or community
- E04004835
- Westminster constituency
- Weald of Kent · E14001570
- Output area
- E00121791
- Lower layer super output area
- Ashford 001B · E01023987
- Middle layer super output area
- Ashford 001 · E02004996
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 CT4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 422 m
Hope View School
Other independent special school
- 498 m
Chilham, St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.9 km
Chartham Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 52
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Other theft 7
- Burglary 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT4 8 residents
- 1,975
Age bands in CT4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
336 residents
153 residents
385 residents
621 residents
520 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
1
within 5 km
OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
BOLTS HILL, CHARTHAM, CANTERBURY, CT4 7JY
ODS code G82790
2.8 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
Felborough Close
BCT · Chilham
- 0.1 miles
Bagham Lane
BCT · Chilham
- 0.1 miles
Bagham Lane
BCT · Chilham
- 0.3 miles
The Old Alma
BCT · Chilham
- 0.3 miles
The Old Alma
BCT · Chilham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ashford 001B, 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
11,095 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
52 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.