Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Quest School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TN12 6QS
Paddock Wood · Tunbridge Wells · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 6QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TN
- Postcode district
- TN12
- Postcode sector
- TN12 6
- Latitude
- 51.190672
- Longitude
- 0.392704
- British National Grid easting
- 567,295
- British National Grid northing
- 146,215
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
- E00125954
- Lower layer super output area
- Tunbridge Wells 001E · E01024814
- 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
Explore TN12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.2 km
The Quest School
Other independent special school
- 1.4 km
Leigh Academy Paddock Wood
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
Laddingford St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 573
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 173
- Violence and sexual offences 137
- Anti social behaviour 76
- Other theft 55
- Criminal damage and arson 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- TN12 6 residents
- 10,215
12 female, 13 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 0.2% 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+
- 92.6%
- 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
- 92.6%
- 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 straight-line
WOODLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
1-7 ALLINGTON ROAD, PADDOCK WOOD, TONBRIDGE, TN12 6AX
ODS code G82118
1.2 km
YALDING
BURGESS BANK, BENOVER ROAD, YALDING, MAIDSTONE, ME18 6ES
ODS code G82141
4.3 km
HOWELL SURGERY
HIGH STREET, BRENCHLEY, TONBRIDGE, TN12 7NQ
ODS code G82158
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Garden Centre
BCT · Paddock Wood
- 0.1 miles
Garden Centre
BCT · Paddock Wood
- 0.2 miles
Eastlands
BCT · Paddock Wood
- 0.2 miles
Eastlands
BCT · Paddock Wood
- 0.5 miles
Hop Pocket Lane
BCT · Paddock Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tunbridge Wells 001E, 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
27,159 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 3
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 9
- 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
573 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 173 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.