Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. SALT COLLEGE is the nearest published school at 53 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT6 8LD
West Bay · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West Bay
- 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 8LD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 November 2009
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT6
- Postcode sector
- CT6 8
- Latitude
- 51.364032
- Longitude
- 1.102071
- British National Grid easting
- 616,041
- British National Grid northing
- 167,341
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- West Bay · E05010409
- Parish or community
- E43000269
- Westminster constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich · E14001282
- Output area
- E00122457
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 004D · E01024119
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 53 m
SALT COLLEGE
Special post 16 institution
- 211 m
Hampton Primary School
Academy converter
- 684 m
Thornden Wood Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,158
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 503
- Anti social behaviour 172
- Criminal damage and arson 111
- Other theft 71
- Shoplifting 71
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
1.6 km
PARK SURGERY
116 KINGS ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5RE
ODS code G82119
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sea Street Gas Works
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.1 miles
Westbrook Farm
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.1 miles
Westbrook Farm
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.2 miles
Sea Street Gas Works
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.2 miles
Longmead Close
BCT · Greenhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 004D, 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
6,457 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,158 published events cover 12 months, averaging 96.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 503 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.