Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Orchard School is the nearest published school at 205 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT1 2XA
Wincheap · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wincheap
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT1
- Postcode sector
- CT1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT1 2XA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT1
- Postcode sector
- CT1 2
- Latitude
- 51.268062
- Longitude
- 1.077806
- British National Grid easting
- 614,800
- British National Grid northing
- 156,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Wincheap · E05010411
- Parish or community
- E43000269
- Westminster constituency
- Canterbury · E14001151
- Output area
- E00190198
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 019E · E01035311
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 019 · E02006855
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 CT1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 7
- 205 m
The Orchard School
Foundation special school
- 289 m
St Nicholas' School
Community special school
- 594 m
Wincheap Foundation Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,260
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,268
- Shoplifting 916
- Anti social behaviour 561
- Criminal damage and arson 377
- Other theft 292
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT1 2 residents
- 5,182
Age bands in CT1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 38%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 13.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.2%
452 residents
1,890 residents
1,439 residents
687 residents
507 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CANTERBURY HEALTH CENTRE
26 OLD DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3JH
ODS code G82802
777 m
NEW DOVER ROAD SURGERY
10 NEW DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3AP
ODS code G82115
1.0 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 NORTHGATE, CANTERBURY, CT1 1WL
ODS code G82060
1.9 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE, GILES LANE, CANTERBURY, CT2 7PB
ODS code G82140
3.3 km
CANTERBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, PATRIXBOURNE ROAD, BRIDGE, CANTERBURY, CT4 5BL
ODS code G82228
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Puckle Lane
BCT · South Canterbury
- 0.2 miles
Puckle Lane
BCT · South Canterbury
- 0.2 miles
John Graham Court
BCT · South Canterbury
- 0.2 miles
John Graham Court
BCT · South Canterbury
- 0.3 miles
Oxford Road
BCT · Martyrs Field
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 019E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,545 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,260 published events cover 12 months, averaging 355 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,268 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.