Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Benenden School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TN17 4AU
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 4AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- TN
- Postcode district
- TN17
- Postcode sector
- TN17 4
- Latitude
- 51.087210
- Longitude
- 0.617490
- British National Grid easting
- 583,410
- British National Grid northing
- 135,247
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
- E00125811
- 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
- 6
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.5 km
Benenden School
Other independent school
- 3.5 km
John Mayne Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.6 km
Benenden Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 5
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Drugs 1
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Benenden Hospital
BCT · East End
- 0.1 miles
Benenden Hospital
BCT · East End
- 0.9 miles
Castletons Oak
BCT · Castletons Oak
- 0.9 miles
Castletons Oak
BCT · Castletons Oak
- 1.2 miles
Goddard's Green Farm
BCT · Goddards Green
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
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.