Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Herne Bay Junior School is the nearest published school at 857 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT6 5XG
Heron · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Heron
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Postcode district
- CT6
- Postcode sector
- CT6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT6 5XG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 December 1986
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT6
- Postcode sector
- CT6 5
- Latitude
- 51.371341
- Longitude
- 1.117782
- British National Grid easting
- 617,100
- British National Grid northing
- 168,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Heron · E05010399
- Parish or community
- E43000269
- Westminster constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich · E14001282
- Output area
- E00122266
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 001C · E01024081
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 001 · E02005010
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 CT6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 857 m
Herne Bay Junior School
Foundation school
- 860 m
Herne Bay Infant School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Herne Bay High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,241
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 828
- Anti social behaviour 338
- Shoplifting 318
- Criminal damage and arson 218
- Other theft 126
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT6 5 residents
- 8,246
Age bands in CT6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.4%
1,641 residents
1,046 residents
2,316 residents
2,404 residents
1,903 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
THE HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE, 161 STATION ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5NF
ODS code G82090
234 m
PARK SURGERY
116 KINGS ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5RE
ODS code G82119
547 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Oxenden Street
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.0 miles
Oxenden Street
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.2 miles
Station Road Corner
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.2 miles
Station Road Corner
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.2 miles
Albany Drive The Broadway
BCT · Westcliff
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 001C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,351 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
2,241 published events cover 12 months, averaging 186.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 828 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.