Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ursuline College is the nearest published school at 322 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT8 8JA
Westgate-on-Sea · Thanet · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Westgate-on-Sea
- Local authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Postcode district
- CT8
- Postcode sector
- CT8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT8 8JA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT8
- Postcode sector
- CT8 8
- Latitude
- 51.375371
- Longitude
- 1.330760
- British National Grid easting
- 631,900
- British National Grid northing
- 169,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Thanet · E07000114
- Electoral ward
- Westgate-on-Sea · E05005103
- Parish or community
- E04012472
- Westminster constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich · E14001282
- Output area
- E00125444
- Lower layer super output area
- Thanet 007B · E01024713
- Middle layer super output area
- Thanet 007 · E02005138
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 CT8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 3
- 322 m
Ursuline College
Academy converter
- 397 m
St Crispin's Infant School
Academy converter
- 517 m
St Saviour's Church of England Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 874
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 418
- Anti social behaviour 126
- Criminal damage and arson 90
- Other theft 64
- Public order 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT8 8 residents
- 7,903
Age bands in CT8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.7%
1,171 residents
732 residents
1,784 residents
2,087 residents
2,102 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
WESTGATE SURGERY
60 WESTGATE BAY AVENUE, WESTGATE-ON-SEA, CT8 8SN
ODS code G82079
1.0 km
BIRCHINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
MINNIS ROAD, BIRCHINGTON, CT7 9HQ
ODS code G82666
2.3 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
TRINITY SQUARE, MARGATE, CT9 1QY
ODS code G82052
4.2 km
MINSTER SURGERY
75 HIGH STREET, MINSTER, RAMSGATE, CT12 4AB
ODS code G82107
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Linksfield Road
BCT · Westgate-on-Sea
- 0.0 miles
Linksfield Road
BCT · Westgate-on-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Lymington Road Shops
BCT · Westgate-on-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Lymington Road Shops
BCT · Westgate-on-Sea
- 0.1 miles
The Warren Drive
BCT · Westgate-on-Sea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Thanet 007B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,219 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
874 published events cover 12 months, averaging 72.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 418 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.