CT2 8ND Canterbury

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Chartham & Stone Street. Region: South East.

Streets

Summer Hill, Harbledown: 22 addresses
Lanfranc Gardens, Harbledown: 3 addresses

Council tax

What each band costs in Canterbury in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,613	£1,882	£2,151	£2,419	£2,957	£3,495	£4,032	£4,839

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band E (23% of about 620 homes).

A2%

B6%

C18%

D21%

E23%

F19%

G10%

H2%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

Conservation area: yes, HARBLEDOWN (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 7.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Canterbury and surrounding area. Dated 25.02.2015 effective 25.02.2016.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

2, SUMMER HILL, grade II
3-9, SUMMER HILL, grade II
Chestnut Cottage and Rosemount, grade II
GROVE COTTAGE, grade II
HARBLEDOWN COURT, grade II
HARBLEDOWN PLACE, grade II
THE OLD RECTORY, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

The Gentyl Knyght, Knight Avenue, Canterbury, CT2 8PU, permissioned (400 m)
43 Queens Avenue, Canterbury, CT2 8BA, permissioned (520 m)
60A London Road, Canterbury, CT2 8JZ, permissioned (540 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 67%, gigabit 67% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 271 residents in 129 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

	Around this postcode	England
Median age	58	40
Children under 15	12%	17%
Aged 65 and over	41%	18%

Homes

	Around this postcode	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	70%	61%
Owned outright	45%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	11%	17%
Private rented	19%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this postcode	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	45%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	40%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	3%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	46%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	39%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	2%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	3%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	12%	10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)	69%	65%
Work 30 km or more away	10%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this postcode	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	50%	34%
No qualifications	15%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	5%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	96%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Summer Hill.