CT21 4FX Folkestone and Hythe

Live postcode, introduced July 2026. Ward: Hythe Rural. Region: South East.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

Council tax

What each band costs in Folkestone and Hythe in 2026-27: Band D £2,539 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,693	£1,975	£2,257	£2,539	£3,103	£3,667	£4,231	£5,078

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (55% of about 990 homes).

A1%

B4%

C55%

D23%

E11%

F4%

G2%

H0%

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: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

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

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Sandling 75,000 journeys in 2024–25	4.2 km
	Westenhanger 63,000 journeys in 2024–25	4.4 km
	Folkestone West 970,000 journeys in 2024–25	8.5 km
Bus stops	0 stops within 400 m, 6 within 800 m; nearest Martello Lakes Hythe	420 m
Ferry terminal	Folkestone Eurotunnel Terminal	7.1 km
EV charging points	Roam Charging Station	1.7 km
Airport with scheduled flights	London Southend Airport SEN	62.2 km
Nearest large airport	London Gatwick Airport LGW	86.6 km

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: 358 residents in 142 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	44	40
Children under 15	19%	17%
Aged 65 and over	22%	18%

Homes

	Around this postcode	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	92%	61%
Owned outright	47%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	under 1%	17%
Private rented	7%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this postcode	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	63%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	3%	6%
Retired (of adults)	26%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	28%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	65%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	1%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	5%	10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)	38%	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)	38%	34%
No qualifications	15%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	5%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	99%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 6 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.