Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 3 secondary schools. King Ethelbert School is the nearest published school at 398 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT7 9BF
Birchington South · Thanet · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Birchington South
- Local authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Postcode district
- CT7
- Postcode sector
- CT7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT7 9BF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT7
- Postcode sector
- CT7 9
- Latitude
- 51.377573
- Longitude
- 1.316547
- British National Grid easting
- 630,900
- British National Grid northing
- 169,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Thanet · E07000114
- Electoral ward
- Birchington South · E05005083
- Parish or community
- E04005081
- Westminster constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich · E14001282
- Output area
- E00125067
- Lower layer super output area
- Thanet 008C · E01024638
- Middle layer super output area
- Thanet 008 · E02005139
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 CT7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 3
- 398 m
King Ethelbert School
Academy converter
- 775 m
Ursuline College
Academy converter
- 983 m
Birchington Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 824
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 373
- Anti social behaviour 134
- Criminal damage and arson 70
- Other theft 63
- Drugs 34
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT7 9 residents
- 7,868
Age bands in CT7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 40.7%
879 residents
480 residents
1,205 residents
2,017 residents
3,146 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
BIRCHINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
MINNIS ROAD, BIRCHINGTON, CT7 9HQ
ODS code G82666
1.3 km
WESTGATE SURGERY
60 WESTGATE BAY AVENUE, WESTGATE-ON-SEA, CT8 8SN
ODS code G82079
1.6 km
MINSTER SURGERY
75 HIGH STREET, MINSTER, RAMSGATE, CT12 4AB
ODS code G82107
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St James's Terrace
BCT · Birchington-on-Sea
- 0.0 miles
St James's Terrace
BCT · Birchington-on-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Epple Road
BCT · Birchington-on-Sea
- 0.2 miles
Epple Road
BCT · Birchington-on-Sea
- 0.2 miles
King Ethelbert School
BCT · Birchington-on-Sea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Thanet 008C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,419 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
824 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 373 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.