Property market
The five-year median is £260,000 from 2 recorded sales in CT5 2RE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Canterbury is £338,030 in June 2026, up 3.3% year on year.
CT5 2RE
Swalecliffe · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Whitstable
- Ward
- Swalecliffe
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT5
- Postcode sector
- CT5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT5 2RE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT5
- Postcode sector
- CT5 2
- Latitude
- 51.364070
- Longitude
- 1.074688
- British National Grid easting
- 614,135
- British National Grid northing
- 167,265
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Swalecliffe · E05010407
- Parish or community
- E43000269
- Westminster constituency
- Canterbury · E14001151
- Output area
- E00122137
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 004A · E01024059
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 004 · E02005013
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
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 74, Woodman Avenue, Whitstable, CT5 2RE | 31 October 2024 | £375,000 |
| 72, Woodman Avenue, Whitstable, CT5 2RE | 29 August 2023 | £145,000 |
| 79a, Woodman Avenue, Whitstable, CT5 2RE | 30 June 2017 | £437,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.2 km
Swalecliffe Community Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.5 km
The Far Academy CIC
Special post 16 institution
- 1.9 km
SALT COLLEGE
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 460
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 153
- Anti social behaviour 76
- Other theft 46
- Shoplifting 36
- Vehicle crime 31
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- CT5 2 residents
- 7,874
10 female, 5 male
Age bands in CT5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.2%
1,000 residents
715 residents
1,259 residents
2,460 residents
2,699 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CT5 2 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
- 100%
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
2
within 5 km
THE HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HERON MEDICAL PRACTICE, 161 STATION ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5NF
ODS code G82090
3.3 km
PARK SURGERY
116 KINGS ROAD, HERNE BAY, CT6 5RE
ODS code G82119
3.6 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
- 0.0 miles
Woodman Avenue
BCT · Swalecliffe
- 0.1 miles
Woodman Avenue
BCT · Swalecliffe
- 0.1 miles
The Plough
BCT · Swalecliffe
- 0.2 miles
The Plough
BCT · Swalecliffe
- 0.3 miles
Goodwin Avenue
BCT · Swalecliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 004A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,265 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 5
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Swalecliffe Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
460 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 153 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.