Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Heath Farm School is the nearest published school at 1.2 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TN27 0AS
Charing · Ashford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Charing
- Local authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent
- Postcode district
- TN27
- Postcode sector
- TN27 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TN27 0AS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2002
- Postcode area
- TN
- Postcode district
- TN27
- Postcode sector
- TN27 0
- Latitude
- 51.201781
- Longitude
- 0.770767
- British National Grid easting
- 593,663
- British National Grid northing
- 148,378
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Ashford · E07000105
- Electoral ward
- Charing · E05011749
- Parish or community
- E04012783
- Westminster constituency
- Weald of Kent · E14001570
- Output area
- E00121783
- Lower layer super output area
- Ashford 002B · E01023986
- Middle layer super output area
- Ashford 002 · E02004997
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 TN27
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.2 km
Heath Farm School
Other independent special school
- 1.9 km
Charing Church of England Primary School
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- 3.2 km
Pluckley Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 71
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 40
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Public order 4
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TN27 0 residents
- 4,541
Age bands in TN27 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- 662 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- 401 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 17%
- 772 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- 1,406 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 28.5%
- 1,294 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
CHARING SURGERY
1 SURGERY CLOSE, CHARING, ASHFORD, TN27 0AW
ODS code G82094
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 1.2 km
Wind Hill Lane
BCT · Charing Heath
- 1.3 km
Wind Hill Lane
BCT · Charing Heath
- 1.3 km
Tile Lodge Farm
BCT · Charing Heath
- 1.3 km
Tile Lodge Farm
BCT · Charing Heath
- 1.5 km
Charing (Kent) Rail Station
RLY · Charing
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ashford 002B, 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
11,788 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
71 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 40 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.