Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Herne Bay Infant School is the nearest published school at 969 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT6 7EN
Herne & Broomfield · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Herne Bay
- Ward
- Herne & Broomfield
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Postcode district
- CT6
- Postcode sector
- CT6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT6 7EN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT6
- Postcode sector
- CT6 7
- Latitude
- 51.360858
- Longitude
- 1.136782
- British National Grid easting
- 618,472
- British National Grid northing
- 167,091
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Herne & Broomfield · E05010398
- Parish or community
- E04004891
- Westminster constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich · E14001282
- Output area
- E00190188
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 006A · E01024073
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 006 · E02005015
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
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Swale Close, Herne Bay, CT6 7EN | 14 December 2020 | £287,500 |
| 3, Swale Close, Herne Bay, CT6 7EN | 9 November 2018 | £320,000 |
| 8, Swale Close, Herne Bay, CT6 7EN | 24 May 2017 | £232,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 969 m
Herne Bay Infant School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Herne Bay Junior School
Foundation school
- 1.1 km
Herne Church of England Junior School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,120
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 805
- Anti social behaviour 320
- Shoplifting 264
- Criminal damage and arson 212
- Other theft 141
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- CT6 7 residents
- 12,578
14 female, 8 male
Age bands in CT6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.4%
2,033 residents
1,312 residents
2,638 residents
3,373 residents
3,014 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CT6 7 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
PARK SURGERY
116 KINGS ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5RE
ODS code G82119
1.3 km
THE HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE, 161 STATION ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5NF
ODS code G82090
1.6 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
Pigeon Lane
BCT · Herne
- 0.2 miles
Eddington Lane
BCT · Eddington
- 0.2 miles
Eddington Lane
BCT · Eddington
- 0.2 miles
Hunters Forstal
BCT · Herne
- 0.3 miles
Hunters Forstal
BCT · Herne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 006A, 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
17,401 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
2,120 published events cover 12 months, averaging 176.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 805 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.