CT5 crime rate and statistics

The CT5 postcode district, in the CT (Canterbury) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,705 street-crime records for CT5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.3% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 81.6 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

2,705

Latest month (August 2026)

218

Year-on-year

+3.3%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 211
October 2025 200
November 2025 250
December 2025 217
January 2026 193
February 2026 172
March 2026 231
April 2026 217
May 2026 267
June 2026 252
July 2026 277
August 2026 218

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.

CT5

81.6

Kent Police

95.4

2,705 records and 33,149 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 CT5 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 CT5

Published street-crime records in CT5, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of CT5: the north-east 1,099, the north 936, the west 209, the east 177, the south-west 73, the centre 72, the north-west 50, the south-east 24, the south 5.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of CT5's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CT5'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 CT5 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CT5 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for CT5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 2,668
2022 2,482
2023 2,449
2024 2,273
2025 2,821
2026 (part year) 1,827

Is CT5 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CT5 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in CT5 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

CT5's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Kent Police (99.9%) and Metropolitan Police (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in CT5

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

Sector Street-crime records
CT5 1 948
CT5 2 408
CT5 3 461
CT5 4 888

Council area

CT5 is in the Canterbury council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 33,149 Census 2021 residents of CT5.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 8.2% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 43.4% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

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 CT5 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) £405,000 (327)
2025 £395,000 (547)
2024 £407,500 (511)
2023 £410,000 (409)
2022 £425,000 (509)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £515,000 (116) £370,000 (113) £392,500 (58) £225,500 (40)
2025 £540,000 (194) £370,000 (165) £380,000 (85) £205,000 (103)
2024 £535,000 (217) £363,250 (156) £375,000 (83) £225,000 (55)
2023 £535,000 (128) £389,995 (147) £391,000 (76) £246,250 (58)
2022 £566,500 (182) £410,000 (156) £396,250 (90) £240,000 (81)

Schools and colleges

11 open establishments with a postcode in CT5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 11 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Joy Lane Primary Foundation School Primary Foundation school
St Alphege Church of England Infant School Primary Voluntary controlled school
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whitstable Primary Academy converter
Swalecliffe Community Primary School Primary Foundation school
Westmeads Community Infant School Primary Community school
Whitstable and Seasalter Endowed Church of England Junior School Primary Voluntary aided school
Whitstable Junior School Primary Foundation school
The Whitstable School Secondary Academy converter
ISP School Whitstable – Other independent special school
The FAR Academy – Special post 16 institution
The Far Academy CIC – Special post 16 institution

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
High60
Medium31
Low97
Very low111

Broadband

Share of the 974 postcodes in CT5 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
Gigabit65.0%84.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)95.5%98.9%

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CrimeMapsUK. CT5 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/ct5/

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