Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 7 secondary schools. Bemix is the nearest published school at 387 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT2 7LU
Blean Forest · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blean Forest
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT2 7LU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2011
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 7
- Latitude
- 51.295562
- Longitude
- 1.063951
- British National Grid easting
- 613,706
- British National Grid northing
- 159,617
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Blean Forest · E05010393
- Parish or community
- E43000269
- Westminster constituency
- Canterbury · E14001151
- Output area
- E00167557
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 012H · E01035309
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 012 · E02005021
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 CT2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 7
- 387 m
Bemix
Special post 16 institution
- 530 m
St Edmund's School Canterbury
Other independent school
- 585 m
University of Kent
Higher education institutions
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,410
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 491
- Anti social behaviour 196
- Shoplifting 145
- Criminal damage and arson 138
- Other theft 99
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT2 7 residents
- 14,187
Age bands in CT2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 53.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 12.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.9%
1,303 residents
7,753 residents
2,364 residents
1,777 residents
1,286 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
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE, GILES LANE, CANTERBURY, CT2 7PB
ODS code G82140
144 m
NORTHGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 NORTHGATE, CANTERBURY, CT1 1WL
ODS code G82060
2.0 km
CANTERBURY HEALTH CENTRE
26 OLD DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3JH
ODS code G82802
2.7 km
NEW DOVER ROAD SURGERY
10 NEW DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3AP
ODS code G82115
2.9 km
STURRY SURGERY
53 ISLAND ROAD, STURRY, CANTERBURY, CT2 0EF
ODS code G82082
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Keynes College
BCS · University of Kent
- 0.1 miles
Keynes College
BCS · University of Kent
- 0.2 miles
Science Building
BCT · University of Kent
- 0.2 miles
Science Building
BCT · University of Kent
- 0.2 miles
Ingram Building
BCT · University of Kent
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 012H, 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
29,853 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,410 published events cover 12 months, averaging 117.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 491 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.