Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Sandgate Primary School is the nearest published school at 723 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT50 1AL
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
- CT50
- Postcode sector
- CT50 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT50 1AL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2012
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT50
- Postcode sector
- CT50 1
- Latitude
- 51.080974
- Longitude
- 1.141509
- British National Grid easting
- 620,132
- British National Grid northing
- 135,989
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
- E00190181
- Lower layer super output area
- Folkestone and Hythe 006G · E01024519
- 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 CT50
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 723 m
Sandgate Primary School
Community school
- 795 m
All Soul's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 824 m
The Folkestone School for Girls
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,582
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 573
- Shoplifting 236
- Anti social behaviour 227
- Other theft 130
- Criminal damage and arson 103
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
WHITE HOUSE SURGERY
1 CHERITON HIGH STREET, FOLKESTONE, CT19 4PU
ODS code G82069
787 m
SANDGATE ROAD
180 SANDGATE ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2HN
ODS code G82121
1.3 km
MANOR CLINIC
31 MANOR ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2SE
ODS code G82232
2.2 km
GUILDHALL STREET SURGERY
65-69 GUILDHALL STREET, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1EJ
ODS code G82091
2.6 km
HARBOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOLKESTONE HEALTH CENTRE, 15-25 DOVER ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1JY
ODS code G82217
2.8 km
THE NEW SURGERY
128 CANTERBURY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT19 5SR
ODS code G82086
3.0 km
SUN LANE
5 SUN LANE, HYTHE, CT21 5JY
ODS code G82018
3.9 km
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
STADE STREET, HYTHE, CT21 6BD
ODS code G82160
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ross Way
BCT · Shorncliffe
- 0.1 miles
Fenner Close
BCT · Shorncliffe
- 0.1 miles
Fenner Close
BCT · Shorncliffe
- 0.1 miles
Enbrook Valley Fremantle Road
BCT · Shorncliffe
- 0.2 miles
Enbrook Valley Fremantle Road
BCT · Shorncliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Folkestone and Hythe 006G, 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
20,072 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,582 published events cover 12 months, averaging 131.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 573 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.