Property market
The five-year median is £475,000 from 7 recorded sales in CT7 9JA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Thanet is £268,760 in June 2026, up 0.9% year on year.
CT7 9JA
Birchington North · Thanet · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birchington
- Ward
- Birchington North
- Local authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Postcode district
- CT7
- Postcode sector
- CT7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CT7 9JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 1985
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CT
- Postcode district
- CT7
- Postcode sector
- CT7 9
- Latitude
- 51.377910
- Longitude
- 1.298260
- British National Grid easting
- 629,626
- British National Grid northing
- 169,480
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Thanet · E07000114
- Electoral ward
- Birchington North · E05005082
- Parish or community
- E04005081
- Westminster constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich · E14001282
- Output area
- E00125042
- Lower layer super output area
- Thanet 008A · E01024636
- Middle layer super output area
- Thanet 008 · E02005139
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 CT7
Property
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 30, Hunting Gate, Birchington, CT7 9JA | 16 December 2025 | £375,000 |
| 24, Hunting Gate, Birchington, CT7 9JA | 28 February 2025 | £490,000 |
| 12, Hunting Gate, Birchington, CT7 9JA | 24 January 2025 | £437,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.1 km
Birchington Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.5 km
Maple Haven Ltd
Other independent special school
- 1.5 km
The Llewellyn School and Nursery
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 562
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 242
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Other theft 42
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Shoplifting 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 59
- Postcode households
- 29
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CT7 9 residents
- 7,868
29 female, 30 male
Age bands in CT7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 40.7%
879 residents
480 residents
1,205 residents
2,017 residents
3,146 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CT7 9 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
- 89.7%
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
3
within 5 km
BIRCHINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
MINNIS ROAD, BIRCHINGTON, CT7 9HQ
ODS code G82666
197 m
WESTGATE SURGERY
60 WESTGATE BAY AVENUE, WESTGATE-ON-SEA, CT8 8SN
ODS code G82079
2.9 km
MINSTER SURGERY
75 HIGH STREET, MINSTER, RAMSGATE, CT12 4AB
ODS code G82107
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Health Centre
BCT · Birchington-on-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Health Centre
BCT · Birchington-on-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Birchington-on-Sea Rail Station
RSE · Birchington-on-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Birchington-on-Sea Rail Station
RSE · Birchington-on-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Birchington-on-Sea Rail Station
RLY · Birchington-on-Sea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Thanet 008A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,062 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
11 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 3 secondary schools. Birchington Church of England 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
562 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 242 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.