Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 6 secondary schools. Hartsdown Academy is the nearest published school at 783 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT9 5FJ
Westbrook · Thanet · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Westbrook
- Local authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Postcode district
- CT9
- Postcode sector
- CT9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT9 5FJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT9
- Postcode sector
- CT9 5
- Latitude
- 51.386737
- Longitude
- 1.371752
- British National Grid easting
- 634,694
- British National Grid northing
- 170,694
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Thanet · E07000114
- Electoral ward
- Westbrook · E05005102
- Parish or community
- E43000241
- Westminster constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich · E14001282
- Output area
- E00125435
- Lower layer super output area
- Thanet 003E · E01024710
- Middle layer super output area
- Thanet 003 · E02005134
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 CT9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 6
- 783 m
Hartsdown Academy
Academy converter
- 927 m
Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.1 km
Salmestone Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,163
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,649
- Anti social behaviour 561
- Shoplifting 410
- Criminal damage and arson 395
- Other theft 251
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT9 5 residents
- 11,234
Age bands in CT9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
1,953 residents
1,185 residents
2,916 residents
3,150 residents
2,241 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
TRINITY SQUARE, MARGATE, CT9 1QY
ODS code G82052
1.1 km
WESTGATE SURGERY
60 WESTGATE BAY AVENUE, WESTGATE-ON-SEA, CT8 8SN
ODS code G82079
2.4 km
NORTHDOWN & DASHWOOD SURGERY
NORTHDOWN PARK ROAD, MARGATE, CT9 2TR
ODS code G82066
2.4 km
BETHESDA MEDICAL CENTRE
PALM BAY AVENUE, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, CT9 3NR
ODS code G82105
3.0 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
THANET COMMUNITY HEALTH HUB, NORTHWOOD ROAD, BROADSTAIRS, CT10 2RZ
ODS code G82219
3.9 km
MOCKETTS WOOD SURGERY
HOPEVILLE AVENUE, ST. PETERS, BROADSTAIRS, CT10 2TR
ODS code G82650
3.9 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
- 0.0 miles
Nayland Rock
BCT · Westbrook
- 0.1 miles
Nayland Rock
BCT · Westbrook
- 0.1 miles
Margate Rail Station
RSE · Margate
- 0.1 miles
Margate Rail Station
TXR · Margate
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Margate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Thanet 003E, 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
4,006 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
4,163 published events cover 12 months, averaging 346.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,649 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.