Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Whitstable School is the nearest published school at 225 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT5 1TX
Gorrell · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gorrell
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT5
- Postcode sector
- CT5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT5 1TX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT5
- Postcode sector
- CT5 1
- Latitude
- 51.352689
- Longitude
- 1.040385
- British National Grid easting
- 611,800
- British National Grid northing
- 165,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Gorrell · E05010396
- Parish or community
- E43000269
- Westminster constituency
- Canterbury · E14001151
- Output area
- E00122164
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 007C · E01024063
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 007 · E02005016
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 CT5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 225 m
The Whitstable School
Academy converter
- 959 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whitstable
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Westmeads Community Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,964
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 576
- Shoplifting 554
- Anti social behaviour 251
- Criminal damage and arson 187
- Other theft 107
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT5 1 residents
- 7,402
Age bands in CT5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.4%
1,073 residents
604 residents
1,498 residents
2,275 residents
1,668 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
WHITSTABLE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ESTUARY VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE, ESTUARY VIEW BUSINESS PARK, BOORMAN WAY, WHITSTABLE, CT5 3SE
ODS code G82071
2.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Community College
BCT · Whitstable
- 0.2 miles
The Monument
BCT · Whitstable
- 0.2 miles
The Monument
BCT · Whitstable
- 0.3 miles
Virginia Road
BCT · South Tankerton
- 0.3 miles
Ham Shades Lane
BCT · Tankerton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 007C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,148 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,964 published events cover 12 months, averaging 163.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 576 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.