CT6 crime rate and statistics

The CT6 postcode district, in the CT (Canterbury) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 3,419 street-crime records for CT6 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.9% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 84.4 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

3,419

Latest month (August 2026)

341

Year-on-year

+7.9%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 271
October 2025 292
November 2025 269
December 2025 246
January 2026 265
February 2026 228
March 2026 265
April 2026 309
May 2026 311
June 2026 311
July 2026 311
August 2026 341

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.

CT6

84.4

Kent Police

95.4

3,419 records and 40,499 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 CT6 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 CT6

Published street-crime records in CT6, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of CT6: the north-west 1,552, the north 942, the north-east 426, the west 301, the south-west 51, the centre 31, the east 26, the south 22.

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 CT6's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CT6'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 CT6 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CT6 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for CT6 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 3,406
2022 3,537
2023 3,378
2024 3,060
2025 3,315
2026 (part year) 2,341

Is CT6 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CT6 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in CT6 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

CT6's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Kent Police (99.8%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%) and South Yorkshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in CT6

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

Sector Street-crime records
CT6 5 1,501
CT6 6 587
CT6 7 560
CT6 8 771

Council area

CT6 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 40,499 Census 2021 residents of CT6.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 23.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 3.8% 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 CT6 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) £340,000 (321)
2025 £332,495 (713)
2024 £325,000 (655)
2023 £340,000 (544)
2022 £350,000 (719)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £425,000 (131) £325,000 (98) £267,000 (43) £172,500 (49)
2025 £420,000 (296) £325,000 (234) £290,000 (93) £163,000 (90)
2024 £422,995 (257) £315,000 (211) £280,000 (93) £172,500 (94)
2023 £460,000 (196) £340,000 (149) £290,000 (80) £200,000 (119)
2022 £464,995 (278) £350,000 (186) £296,498 (98) £203,000 (157)

Schools and colleges

9 open establishments with a postcode in CT6, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 9 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Hampton Primary School Primary Academy converter
Herne Bay Infant School Primary Community school
Herne Bay Junior School Primary Foundation school
Herne Church of England Infant and Nursery School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Herne Church of England Junior School Primary Voluntary aided school
Reculver Church of England Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Thornden Wood Primary School Primary Academy converter
Herne Bay High School Secondary Academy converter
SALT COLLEGE – 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
High78
Medium8
Low24
Very low15

Broadband

Share of the 1,040 postcodes in CT6 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
Gigabit77.8%92.4%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)96.2%98.4%

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CrimeMapsUK. CT6 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/ct6/

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