Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 6 secondary schools. Winter Gardens Academy is the nearest published school at 302 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS8 9PP
Canvey Island Winter Gardens · Castle Point · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Canvey Island
- Local authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point
- Postcode district
- SS8
- Postcode sector
- SS8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS8 9PP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS8
- Postcode sector
- SS8 9
- Latitude
- 51.532367
- Longitude
- 0.580009
- British National Grid easting
- 579,045
- British National Grid northing
- 184,650
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Castle Point · E07000069
- Electoral ward
- Canvey Island Winter Gardens · E05015696
- Parish or community
- E04003950
- Westminster constituency
- Castle Point · E14001154
- Output area
- E00109261
- Lower layer super output area
- Castle Point 008C · E01021504
- Middle layer super output area
- Castle Point 008 · E02004480
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
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Woodberry Manor, Woodberry Close, Canvey Island, SS8 9PP | 5 May 2021 | £700,000 |
| Woodberry Manor, Woodberry Close, Canvey Island, SS8 9PP | 17 February 2017 | £515,000 |
| 2, Woodberry Close, Canvey Island, SS8 9PP | 16 May 2016 | £240,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 6
- 302 m
Winter Gardens Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 341 m
St Katherine's Church of England Primary School
Foundation school
- 981 m
The Cornelius Vermuyden School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,757
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 823
- Anti social behaviour 248
- Criminal damage and arson 174
- Public order 115
- Other theft 85
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.6
- SS8 9 residents
- 15,216
8 female, 10 male
Age bands in SS8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
2,923 residents
1,801 residents
3,715 residents
3,850 residents
2,889 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SS8 9 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 83.3%
- 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
14
within 5 km
THIRD AVENUE HEALTH CENTRE
THIRD AVENUE, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 9SU
ODS code F81051
1.2 km
OAKLANDS SURGERY
CENTRAL CANVEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JA
ODS code F81096
1.6 km
THE COMMUNITY PRACTICE
CENTRAL CANVEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JA
ODS code F81740
1.6 km
THE ISLAND SURGERY
LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JA
ODS code F81739
1.6 km
GHAURI PRACTICE
1A HAWKESBURY ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0EX
ODS code F81205
1.7 km
CANVEY VILLAGE SURGERY
391 LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JH
ODS code F81700
1.7 km
ESSEX WAY SURGERY
34 ESSEX WAY, BENFLEET, SS7 1LT
ODS code F81101
1.8 km
HIGH ROAD FAMILY DOCTORS
119 HIGH ROAD, BENFLEET, SS7 5LN
ODS code F81618
2.2 km
BENFLEET SURGERY
12 CONSTITUTION HILL, BENFLEET, SS7 1ED
ODS code F81713
2.8 km
THE HOLLIES
41 RECTORY ROAD, HADLEIGH, BENFLEET, SS7 2NA
ODS code F81075
3.3 km
GRACE HOUSE SURGERY
85 HART ROAD, THUNDERSLEY, BENFLEET, SS7 3PR
ODS code F81032
4.2 km
HIGHLANDS SURGERY
1629-1643 LONDON ROAD, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 2SQ
ODS code F81112
4.3 km
DR KHAN & PARTNERS
RUSHBOTTOM LANE SURGERY, 91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81001
4.8 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81142
4.8 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
- 0.1 miles
Elsinor Avenue
BCT · Canvey
- 0.1 miles
Elsinor Avenue
BCT · Canvey
- 0.1 miles
Silver Jubilee
BCT · Canvey
- 0.1 miles
Silver Jubilee
BCT · Canvey
- 0.2 miles
Castle View School
BCT · Canvey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Castle Point 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,256 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,757 published events cover 12 months, averaging 146.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 823 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.