CT3 crime rate and statistics

The CT3 postcode district, in the CT (Canterbury) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,228 street-crime records for CT3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 10.9% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 59.5 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 95.4 for Kent Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

1,228

Latest month (August 2026)

130

Year-on-year

+10.9%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 96
October 2025 88
November 2025 97
December 2025 84
January 2026 97
February 2026 95
March 2026 114
April 2026 68
May 2026 94
June 2026 126
July 2026 139
August 2026 130

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

CT3

59.5

Kent Police

95.4

1,228 records and 20,649 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of CT3 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in CT3

Published street-crime records in CT3, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of CT3: the west 1,667, the south 621, the north-west 210, the east 182, the south-west 92, the north 70, the north-east 39, the south-east 22, the centre 7.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of CT3's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CT3's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of CT3 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CT3 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for CT3 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 1,201
2022 1,264
2023 1,172
2024 1,145
2025 1,120
2026 (part year) 863

Is CT3 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CT3 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in CT3 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

CT3's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Kent Police (99.9%) and Norfolk Constabulary (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in CT3

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
CT3 1 239
CT3 2 179
CT3 3 544
CT3 4 266

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 20,649 Census 2021 residents of CT3.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 9.7% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About CT3 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £295,000 (154)
2025 £315,000 (362)
2024 £311,500 (288)
2023 £370,000 (290)
2022 £383,748 (412)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £457,500 (44) £285,000 (56) £257,500 (48) £146,000 (6)
2025 £480,500 (132) £300,000 (115) £260,000 (100) £157,000 (15)
2024 £490,000 (91) £300,000 (97) £255,000 (85) £173,000 (15)
2023 £491,250 (110) £325,000 (103) £271,000 (66) £177,000 (11)
2022 £520,000 (184) £350,500 (116) £275,000 (91) £170,000 (21)

Schools and colleges

13 open establishments with a postcode in CT3, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 13 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Adisham Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Ash Cartwright and Kelsey Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Aylesham Primary School Primary Academy converter
Chislet Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Goodnestone Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Hoath Primary School Primary Community school
Littlebourne Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Preston Primary School Primary Community school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Aylesham Primary Academy converter
Water Meadows Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Wickhambreaux Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Wingham Primary School Primary Community school
St Faith's At Ash School Limited – Other independent school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High37
Medium11
Low13
Very low20

Broadband

Share of the 780 postcodes in CT3 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit43.7%59.7%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)76.7%84.5%

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CrimeMapsUK. CT3 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/ct3/

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