Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Hoath Primary School is the nearest published school at 303 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT3 4NU
Reculver · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Reculver
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Postcode district
- CT3
- Postcode sector
- CT3 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT3 4NU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT3
- Postcode sector
- CT3 4
- Latitude
- 51.337789
- Longitude
- 1.161455
- British National Grid easting
- 620,300
- British National Grid northing
- 164,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Reculver · E05012955
- Parish or community
- E04004877
- Westminster constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich · E14001282
- Output area
- E00122289
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 010C · E01024086
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 010 · E02005019
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 CT3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 303 m
Hoath Primary School
Community school
- 2.1 km
Herne Church of England Infant and Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.1 km
Chislet Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other crime 5
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Other theft 2
- Burglary 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT3 4 residents
- 4,046
Age bands in CT3 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
666 residents
451 residents
962 residents
1,168 residents
951 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
STURRY SURGERY
53 ISLAND ROAD, STURRY, CANTERBURY, CT2 0EF
ODS code G82082
4.3 km
PARK SURGERY
116 KINGS ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5RE
ODS code G82119
4.4 km
THE HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE, 161 STATION ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5NF
ODS code G82090
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 1.2 miles
Heart in Hand Corner
BCT · Broomfield
- 1.3 miles
Heart in Hand Corner
BCT · Broomfield
- 1.4 miles
Huntsman and Horn
BCT · Broomfield
- 1.4 miles
Huntsman and Horn
BCT · Broomfield
- 1.5 miles
Hoopers Lane
BCT · Broomfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 010C, 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
10,318 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other crime with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.