Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Athena School is the nearest published school at 158 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS8 0HL
Canvey Island South · Castle Point · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Canvey Island South
- Local authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point
- Postcode district
- SS8
- Postcode sector
- SS8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS8 0HL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS8
- Postcode sector
- SS8 0
- Latitude
- 51.515669
- Longitude
- 0.582741
- British National Grid easting
- 579,300
- British National Grid northing
- 182,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Castle Point · E07000069
- Electoral ward
- Canvey Island South · E05015695
- Parish or community
- E04003950
- Westminster constituency
- Castle Point · E14001154
- Output area
- E00180472
- Lower layer super output area
- Castle Point 012E · E01021500
- Middle layer super output area
- Castle Point 012 · E02004484
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 SS8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 158 m
Athena School
Other independent special school
- 526 m
William Read Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 846 m
Canvey Island Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,018
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 964
- Anti social behaviour 256
- Criminal damage and arson 217
- Public order 132
- Other theft 93
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SS8 0 residents
- 7,463
Age bands in SS8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 28%
1,093 residents
695 residents
1,465 residents
2,118 residents
2,091 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
OAKLANDS SURGERY
CENTRAL CANVEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JA
ODS code F81096
766 m
THE COMMUNITY PRACTICE
CENTRAL CANVEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JA
ODS code F81740
766 m
THE ISLAND SURGERY
LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JA
ODS code F81739
766 m
GHAURI PRACTICE
1A HAWKESBURY ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0EX
ODS code F81205
844 m
CANVEY VILLAGE SURGERY
391 LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JH
ODS code F81700
1.2 km
THIRD AVENUE HEALTH CENTRE
THIRD AVENUE, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 9SU
ODS code F81051
1.5 km
ESSEX WAY SURGERY
34 ESSEX WAY, BENFLEET, SS7 1LT
ODS code F81101
3.5 km
HIGH ROAD FAMILY DOCTORS
119 HIGH ROAD, BENFLEET, SS7 5LN
ODS code F81618
4.0 km
BENFLEET SURGERY
12 CONSTITUTION HILL, BENFLEET, SS7 1ED
ODS code F81713
4.6 km
THE HOLLIES
41 RECTORY ROAD, HADLEIGH, BENFLEET, SS7 2NA
ODS code F81075
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Jasmine Close
BCT · Canvey
- 0.2 miles
Jasmine Close
BCT · Canvey
- 0.3 miles
Cleveland Road
BCT · Canvey
- 0.3 miles
Cleveland Road
BCT · Canvey
- 0.3 miles
Jones Corner
BCT · Canvey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Castle Point 012E, 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
5,876 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
2,018 published events cover 12 months, averaging 168.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 964 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.