Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hawthorn is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT2 7YL
Chartham & Stone Street · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT2 7YL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 7
- Latitude
- 51.247447
- Longitude
- 1.040600
- British National Grid easting
- 612,300
- British National Grid northing
- 154,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Chartham & Stone Street · E05012991
- Parish or community
- E04004871
- Westminster constituency
- Canterbury · E14001151
- Output area
- E00122119
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 017B · E01024053
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 017 · E02005026
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
- 23
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 5
- 2.1 km
Hawthorn
Other independent special school
- 2.2 km
Chartham Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
Petham Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 134
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 58
- Anti social behaviour 39
- Other theft 9
- Vehicle crime 7
- Criminal damage and arson 7
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
BOLTS HILL, CHARTHAM, CANTERBURY, CT4 7JY
ODS code G82790
2.5 km
CANTERBURY HEALTH CENTRE
26 OLD DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3JH
ODS code G82802
4.2 km
NEW DOVER ROAD SURGERY
10 NEW DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3AP
ODS code G82115
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Old Church Way
BCT · Chartham
- 0.8 miles
Beech Avenue Post Box
BCT · Chartham
- 0.8 miles
The Local
BCT · Chartham
- 1.0 miles
Pomfret Road
BCT · Chartham
- 1.1 miles
Howfield Lane
BCT · Chartham Hatch
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 017B, 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
19,429 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
134 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 58 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.