Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Canterbury Academy is the nearest published school at 413 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT2 8LD
Westgate · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Westgate
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT2 8LD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 8
- Latitude
- 51.281868
- Longitude
- 1.065821
- British National Grid easting
- 613,900
- British National Grid northing
- 158,100
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
- E00122471
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 7
- 413 m
The Canterbury Academy
Academy converter
- 632 m
The Canterbury Primary School
Academy converter
- 802 m
St Peter's Methodist Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,233
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,588
- Shoplifting 1,046
- Anti social behaviour 693
- Criminal damage and arson 456
- Other theft 346
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT2 8 residents
- 7,734
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
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
CANTERBURY HEALTH CENTRE
26 OLD DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3JH
ODS code G82802
1.5 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 NORTHGATE, CANTERBURY, CT1 1WL
ODS code G82060
1.5 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE, GILES LANE, CANTERBURY, CT2 7PB
ODS code G82140
1.6 km
NEW DOVER ROAD SURGERY
10 NEW DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3AP
ODS code G82115
1.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Temple Road
BCT · Canterbury
- 0.1 miles
Temple Road
BCT · Canterbury
- 0.1 miles
Queens Avenue
BCT · Canterbury
- 0.1 miles
Queens Avenue
BCT · Canterbury
- 0.1 miles
Mill Lane Junction
BCT · London Road Estate
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,233 published events cover 12 months, averaging 436.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,588 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.