Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Canterbury Academy is the nearest published school at 728 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT2 8JE
Blean Forest · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Canterbury
- Ward
- Blean Forest
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT2 8JE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 8
- Latitude
- 51.284433
- Longitude
- 1.058563
- British National Grid easting
- 613,382
- British National Grid northing
- 158,364
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
- E00122469
- 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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 16, Cedarview, Canterbury, CT2 8JE | 31 May 2019 | £340,000 |
| 18, Cedarview, Canterbury, CT2 8JE | 27 April 2018 | £375,000 |
| 4, Cedarview, Canterbury, CT2 8JE | 9 April 2018 | £330,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 7
- 728 m
The Canterbury Academy
Academy converter
- 780 m
The Canterbury Primary School
Academy converter
- 813 m
St Edmund's School Canterbury
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,648
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 800
- Shoplifting 452
- Anti social behaviour 389
- Criminal damage and arson 229
- Other theft 189
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 47
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- CT2 8 residents
- 7,734
18 female, 29 male
Age bands in CT2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 24.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
1,012 residents
1,825 residents
1,870 residents
1,488 residents
1,333 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 84.2%
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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE, GILES LANE, CANTERBURY, CT2 7PB
ODS code G82140
1.3 km
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
2.0 km
NEW DOVER ROAD SURGERY
10 NEW DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3AP
ODS code G82115
2.4 km
OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
BOLTS HILL, CHARTHAM, CANTERBURY, CT4 7JY
ODS code G82790
5.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Fisher Road
BCT · St Dunstans
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Harbledown
- 0.2 miles
Summer Hill
BCT · Harbledown
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Harbledown
- 0.2 miles
Summer Hill
BCT · Harbledown
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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
2,648 published events cover 12 months, averaging 220.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 800 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.