Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 4 secondary schools. University of Kent is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT2 9YZ
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT2 9YZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT2
- Postcode sector
- CT2 9
- Latitude
- 51.309740
- Longitude
- 1.066245
- British National Grid easting
- 613,800
- British National Grid northing
- 161,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Blean Forest · E05010393
- Parish or community
- E04004875
- Westminster constituency
- Canterbury · E14001151
- Output area
- E00122103
- 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
- 29
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.3 km
University of Kent
Higher education institutions
- 1.6 km
Blean Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
The Archbishop's School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 153
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 44
- Other theft 25
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Shoplifting 16
- Criminal damage and arson 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT2 9 residents
- 4,182
Age bands in CT2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.8%
656 residents
398 residents
757 residents
1,040 residents
1,098 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
1.5 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 NORTHGATE, CANTERBURY, CT1 1WL
ODS code G82060
3.2 km
CANTERBURY HEALTH CENTRE
26 OLD DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3JH
ODS code G82802
4.1 km
NEW DOVER ROAD SURGERY
10 NEW DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, CT1 3AP
ODS code G82115
4.3 km
STURRY SURGERY
53 ISLAND ROAD, STURRY, CANTERBURY, CT2 0EF
ODS code G82082
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
The Tyler's Kiln
BCT · Tyler Hill
- 0.2 miles
The Tyler's Kiln
BCT · Tyler Hill
- 0.4 miles
Britton Court Farm
BCT · Tyler Hill
- 0.4 miles
Britton Court Farm
BCT · Tyler Hill
- 0.7 miles
Gulbenkian Theatre
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
153 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 44 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.