Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hampton Primary School is the nearest published school at 749 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT6 8JB
Heron · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Herne Bay
- Ward
- Heron
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Postcode district
- CT6
- Postcode sector
- CT6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT6 8JB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2011
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT6
- Postcode sector
- CT6 8
- Latitude
- 51.371818
- Longitude
- 1.105586
- British National Grid easting
- 616,249
- British National Grid northing
- 168,217
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
- E00122446
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 004C · E01024117
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 004 · E02005013
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sea Breeze, Western Esplanade, Herne Bay, CT6 8JB | 25 July 2012 | £495,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 749 m
Hampton Primary School
Academy converter
- 939 m
SALT COLLEGE
Special post 16 institution
- 1.2 km
Herne Bay High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,682
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 615
- Shoplifting 260
- Anti social behaviour 250
- Criminal damage and arson 163
- Other theft 89
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT6 8 residents
- 8,947
Age bands in CT6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.6%
1,168 residents
866 residents
1,573 residents
2,443 residents
2,541 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
1.1 km
PARK SURGERY
116 KINGS ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5RE
ODS code G82119
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ridgeway Cliff
BCT · Westcliff
- 0.1 miles
Ridgeway Cliff
BCT · Westcliff
- 0.1 miles
Grand Drive
BCT · Westcliff
- 0.2 miles
Grand Drive
BCT · Westcliff
- 0.2 miles
Selsea Avenue
BCT · Westcliff
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 004C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,476 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,682 published events cover 12 months, averaging 140.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 615 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.