Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Winter Gardens Academy is the nearest published school at 157 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SS8 9ZW
Canvey Island Winter Gardens · Castle Point · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point
- Postcode district
- SS8
- Postcode sector
- SS8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SS8 9ZW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2005
- Terminated
- 1 September 2005
- Postcode area
- SS
- Postcode district
- SS8
- Postcode sector
- SS8 9
- Latitude
- 51.531297
- Longitude
- 0.581217
- British National Grid easting
- 579,133
- British National Grid northing
- 184,534
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
- E00109262
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 6
- 157 m
Winter Gardens Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 196 m
St Katherine's Church of England Primary School
Foundation school
- 997 m
The Cornelius Vermuyden School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,885
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 882
- Anti social behaviour 253
- Criminal damage and arson 196
- Public order 131
- Other theft 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SS8 9 residents
- 15,216
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
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
14
within 5 km straight-line
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
1.4 km
THE COMMUNITY PRACTICE
CENTRAL CANVEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JA
ODS code F81740
1.4 km
THE ISLAND SURGERY
LONG ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0JA
ODS code F81739
1.4 km
GHAURI PRACTICE
1A HAWKESBURY ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 0EX
ODS code F81205
1.6 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
1.9 km
HIGH ROAD FAMILY DOCTORS
119 HIGH ROAD, BENFLEET, SS7 5LN
ODS code F81618
2.4 km
BENFLEET SURGERY
12 CONSTITUTION HILL, BENFLEET, SS7 1ED
ODS code F81713
3.0 km
THE HOLLIES
41 RECTORY ROAD, HADLEIGH, BENFLEET, SS7 2NA
ODS code F81075
3.4 km
GRACE HOUSE SURGERY
85 HART ROAD, THUNDERSLEY, BENFLEET, SS7 3PR
ODS code F81032
4.3 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
5.0 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
91 RUSHBOTTOM LANE, BENFLEET, SS7 4EA
ODS code F81142
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Silver Jubilee
BCT · Canvey
- 0.1 miles
Silver Jubilee
BCT · Canvey
- 0.1 miles
Castle View School
BCT · Canvey
- 0.1 miles
Elsinor Avenue
BCT · Canvey
- 0.1 miles
Elsinor Avenue
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,885 published events cover 12 months, averaging 157.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 882 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.