Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Whitstable School is the nearest published school at 628 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT5 3EB
Chestfield · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chestfield
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT5
- Postcode sector
- CT5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT5 3EB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2006
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT5
- Postcode sector
- CT5 3
- Latitude
- 51.347322
- Longitude
- 1.044439
- British National Grid easting
- 612,107
- British National Grid northing
- 165,315
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Canterbury · E07000106
- Electoral ward
- Chestfield · E05010395
- Parish or community
- E43000269
- Westminster constituency
- Canterbury · E14001151
- Output area
- E00190167
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 009A · E01024062
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 009 · E02005018
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
- 628 m
The Whitstable School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
The Far Academy CIC
Special post 16 institution
- 1.6 km
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whitstable
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,050
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 312
- Shoplifting 304
- Anti social behaviour 116
- Criminal damage and arson 91
- Vehicle crime 72
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT5 3 residents
- 7,563
Age bands in CT5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.7%
1,235 residents
754 residents
1,497 residents
2,301 residents
2,335 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
- 0.0 miles
Tesco
BCT · South Tankerton
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · South Tankerton
- 0.2 miles
Virginia Road
BCT · South Tankerton
- 0.2 miles
Virginia Road
BCT · South Tankerton
- 0.4 miles
Community College
BCT · Whitstable
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 009A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,716 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
1,050 published events cover 12 months, averaging 87.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 312 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.