Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Herne Bay High School is the nearest published school at 585 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT6 9DD
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT6 9DD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2020
- Terminated
- 1 January 2021
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT6
- Postcode sector
- CT6 9
- Latitude
- 51.362136
- Longitude
- 1.120936
- British National Grid easting
- 617,363
- British National Grid northing
- 167,186
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
- E00167544
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 003A · E01024064
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 003 · E02005012
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
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 585 m
Herne Bay High School
Academy converter
- 864 m
Herne Bay Infant School
Community school
- 917 m
Herne Bay Junior School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,556
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 997
- Anti social behaviour 362
- Shoplifting 315
- Criminal damage and arson 256
- Other theft 155
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
PARK SURGERY
116 KINGS ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5RE
ODS code G82119
893 m
THE HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE, 161 STATION ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5NF
ODS code G82090
1.0 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
Railway Station
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.2 miles
Herne Bay Rail Station
RSE · Herne Bay
- 0.2 miles
Herne Bay Rail Station
RLY · Herne Bay
- 0.3 miles
Spenser Road West
BCT · Herne Bay
- 0.3 miles
Spenser Road West
BCT · Herne Bay
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 003A, 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
23,480 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
2,556 published events cover 12 months, averaging 213 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 997 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.