Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Whitstable Junior School is the nearest published school at 431 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CT5 4GA
Gorrell · Canterbury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gorrell
- Local authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury
- Postcode district
- CT5
- Postcode sector
- CT5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT5 4GA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT5
- Postcode sector
- CT5 4
- Latitude
- 51.352236
- Longitude
- 1.023118
- British National Grid easting
- 610,600
- British National Grid northing
- 165,800
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
- E00122401
- Lower layer super output area
- Canterbury 008E · E01024106
- Middle layer super output area
- Canterbury 008 · E02005017
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
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 431 m
Whitstable Junior School
Foundation school
- 457 m
St Alphege Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 572 m
Joy Lane Primary Foundation School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,971
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 576
- Shoplifting 573
- Anti social behaviour 246
- Criminal damage and arson 181
- Other theft 101
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CT5 4 residents
- 10,326
Age bands in CT5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.2%
1,480 residents
920 residents
1,779 residents
2,820 residents
2,887 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
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Harwich Street
BCT · Whitstable
- 0.1 miles
Harwich Street
BCT · Whitstable
- 0.1 miles
Tollgate
BCT · Whitstable
- 0.1 miles
Tollgate
BCT · Whitstable
- 0.2 miles
Tollgate Close
BCT · Whitstable
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Canterbury 008E, 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
28,071 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
1,971 published events cover 12 months, averaging 164.25 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.