Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Leigh Academy Mascalls is the nearest published school at 503 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TN12 6LJ
Paddock Wood · Tunbridge Wells · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Tonbridge
- Ward
- Paddock Wood
- Local authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells
- Postcode district
- TN12
- Postcode sector
- TN12 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TN12 6LJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TN
- Postcode district
- TN12
- Postcode sector
- TN12 6
- Latitude
- 51.173728
- Longitude
- 0.386576
- British National Grid easting
- 566,928
- British National Grid northing
- 144,317
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Tunbridge Wells · E07000116
- Electoral ward
- Paddock Wood · E05015808
- Parish or community
- E04005126
- Westminster constituency
- Tunbridge Wells · E14001555
- Output area
- E00125938
- Lower layer super output area
- Tunbridge Wells 001B · E01024811
- Middle layer super output area
- Tunbridge Wells 001 · E02005162
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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Sycamore Gardens, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, TN12 6LJ | 22 November 2019 | £570,000 |
| 4, Sycamore Gardens, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, TN12 6LJ | 30 June 2017 | £670,000 |
| 1, Sycamore Gardens, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, TN12 6LJ | 9 March 2001 | £275,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 503 m
Leigh Academy Mascalls
Academy converter
- 542 m
Leigh Academy Paddock Wood
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Brenchley and Matfield Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 772
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 217
- Shoplifting 173
- Anti social behaviour 111
- Other theft 72
- Criminal damage and arson 71
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- TN12 6 residents
- 10,215
6 female, 4 male
Age bands in TN12 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,731 residents
1,077 residents
2,271 residents
2,922 residents
2,219 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TN12 6 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
3
within 5 km
WOODLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
1-7 ALLINGTON ROAD, PADDOCK WOOD, TONBRIDGE, TN12 6AX
ODS code G82118
792 m
HOWELL SURGERY
HIGH STREET, BRENCHLEY, TONBRIDGE, TN12 7NQ
ODS code G82158
2.7 km
WATERFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
186 HENWOOD GREEN ROAD, PEMBURY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, TN2 4LR
ODS code G82155
4.9 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mascalls Corner
BCT · Paddock Wood
- 0.1 miles
Mascalls Corner
BCT · Paddock Wood
- 0.2 miles
Police Station
BCT · Paddock Wood
- 0.2 miles
Police Station
BCT · Paddock Wood
- 0.3 miles
Mascalls Academy Grounds
BCT · Paddock Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tunbridge Wells 001B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,230 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- 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
772 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 217 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.