Property market
The five-year median is £285,000 from 15 recorded sales in CT2 8DS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Canterbury is £338,030 in June 2026, up 3.3% year on year.
CT2 8DS
Westgate · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Canterbury
- Ward
- Westgate
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT2 8DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 8
- Latitude
- 51.283978
- Longitude
- 1.064958
- British National Grid easting
- 613,830
- British National Grid northing
- 158,332
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Westgate · E05010410
- Parish or community
- E43000269
- Westminster constituency
- Canterbury · E14001151
- Output area
- E00122467
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 020C · E01024122
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 020 · E02006856
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
Property
87 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 20, Bishops Way, Canterbury, CT2 8DS | 27 February 2026 | £299,000 |
| 51, Bishops Way, Canterbury, CT2 8DS | 16 February 2026 | £300,000 |
| 44, Bishops Way, Canterbury, CT2 8DS | 9 May 2025 | £270,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 7
- 616 m
The Canterbury Academy
Academy converter
- 799 m
The Canterbury Primary School
Academy converter
- 905 m
Bemix
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,855
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,460
- Shoplifting 955
- Anti social behaviour 644
- Criminal damage and arson 429
- Other theft 323
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 128
- 71 female, 57 male
- Postcode households
- 60
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- CT2 8 residents
- 7,734
Age bands in CT2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- 1,012 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 24.2%
- 1,825 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- 1,870 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 19.8%
- 1,488 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
- 1,333 residents
This postcode contained 1.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CT2 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 98.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.2%
- Gigabit-capable
- 98.4%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 33.3%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE, GILES LANE, CANTERBURY, CT2 7PB
ODS code G82140
1.4 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 NORTHGATE, CANTERBURY, CT1 1WL
ODS code G82060
1.5 km
CANTERBURY HEALTH CENTRE
26 OLD DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3JH
ODS code G82802
1.7 km
NEW DOVER ROAD SURGERY
10 NEW DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3AP
ODS code G82115
2.0 km
Nearby transport
- 179 m
Temple Road
BCT · Canterbury
- 190 m
Temple Road
BCT · Canterbury
- 199 m
Fisher Road
BCT · St Dunstans
- 312 m
Westgate Court Avenue
BCT · Canterbury
- 313 m
Westgate Court Avenue
BCT · Canterbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 020C, 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
12,999 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 14
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Canterbury Academy is the nearest published school at 616 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4,855 published events cover 12 months, averaging 405 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,460 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.