Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Benenden School is the nearest published school at 13 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TN17 4AB
Hawkhurst, Sandhurst & Benenden · Tunbridge Wells · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent
- Postcode district
- TN17
- Postcode sector
- TN17 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TN17 4AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TN
- Postcode district
- TN17
- Postcode sector
- TN17 4
- Latitude
- 51.075219
- Longitude
- 0.571826
- British National Grid easting
- 580,259
- British National Grid northing
- 133,801
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Tunbridge Wells · E07000116
- Electoral ward
- Hawkhurst, Sandhurst & Benenden · E05015806
- Parish or community
- E04005116
- Westminster constituency
- Weald of Kent · E14001570
- Output area
- E00172114
- Lower layer super output area
- Tunbridge Wells 014A · E01024789
- Middle layer super output area
- Tunbridge Wells 014 · E02005175
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 TN17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 13 m
Benenden School
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
Benenden Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.3 km
The Dulwich School Cranbrook
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 35
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 15
- Public order 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Other theft 4
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TN17 4 residents
- 3,916
Age bands in TN17 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
715 residents
560 residents
614 residents
1,037 residents
976 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
2
within 5 km
ORCHARD END
DOROTHY AVENUE, CRANBROOK, TN17 3AY
ODS code G82733
2.9 km
OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
RECTORY FIELDS, CRANBROOK, TN17 3JB
ODS code G82235
3.6 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
- 0.5 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Benenden
- 0.5 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Benenden
- 0.6 miles
The Green
BCT · Benenden
- 0.6 miles
The Green
BCT · Benenden
- 0.8 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Benenden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tunbridge Wells 014A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,718 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
35 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 15 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.