Walter Tull Way Folkestone

14 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT19), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34503302.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £195,000 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Folkestone and Hythe cost £302,106 in August 2026 (-0.7% on a year); private rents averaged £1,189 a month.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 7, C: 4).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 590 m (0.4 miles) from its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A259, carries 15,308 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Folkestone and Hythe costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Folkestone Central, about 850 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Radnor Park, is about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 26 to 30 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 14 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The New Surgery, about 330 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 740 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 168 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 4 of them fatal or serious; 5 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20232£195,000£105,000£285,000
20211£210,000£210,000£210,000
20192£199,500£154,000£245,000
20151£178,000£178,000£178,000
20144£167,500£115,000£186,750
All 15 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Nov 2014FLAT 1, 2 CT19 5UNTerraced£200,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Nov 20144 CT19 5UNTerraced£155,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Nov 20146 CT19 5UNTerraced£155,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 May 20218 CT19 5UNTerraced£210,000
17 Oct 20148 CT19 5UNTerraced£160,000New build.
23 Dec 201410 CT19 5UNTerraced£165,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jan 201912 CT19 5UNFlat or maisonette£154,000
8 Dec 201412 CT19 5UNFlat or maisonette£115,000New build.
17 Nov 202314 CT19 5UNTerraced£105,000
4 Nov 201414 CT19 5UNTerraced£186,750
17 Nov 201416 CT19 5UNTerraced£170,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Feb 201518 CT19 5UNTerraced£178,000New build.
3 Oct 202320 CT19 5UNTerraced£285,000
22 Oct 201420 CT19 5UNTerraced£175,000New build.
21 Feb 201922 CT19 5UNTerraced£245,000

House prices and rents in Folkestone and Hythe

A typical home in Folkestone and Hythe cost £302,106 in August 2026, 0.7% less than a year before. That is 10% more than five years earlier and 32% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£522,768
Semi-detached£337,304
Terraced£270,182
Flat or maisonette£166,395
Bought by a first-time buyer£245,379

Private renters in Folkestone and Hythe paid £1,189 a month on average in September 2026, 10% more than a year before. That is 54% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£812
Two bedrooms£1,041
Three bedrooms£1,298
Four or more bedrooms£1,739

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); Flat (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 2007-2011 (4); 2013 (4); 2012-2021 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,099 kWh of it on average in 2024, 26% less than the district's 9,632 kWh, and 3,062 kWh of electricity, 5% more than the district's 2,913 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CT19 5UN122,238 kWh 114,294 kWh
CT19 5SJ233,252 kWh 246,160 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is CT19.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,693£1,975£2,257£2,539£3,103£3,667£4,231£5,078

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (39% of about 1,230 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 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 on or by this street. 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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CT19 5UNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT19 5SJnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 3 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 590 m (0.4 miles) from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line South Foreland to Beachy Head none (the line is held)800 m (0.5 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line South Foreland to Beachy Head none (the line is held)800 m (0.5 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention South Foreland to Beachy Head up to 198 m590 m (0.4 miles)
Ground instability zone Folkestone Lower Sandgate Road, ShepwayUnstable cliffs or slopes where the ground has moved, with a margin for movement over the next 100 years760 m (0.5 miles)

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 14 addresses are between 26 m and 30 m above sea level (28 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CT19 5SJ100%100%100%0%
CT19 5UN100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsFolkestone Central 817,000 journeys in 2024–25850 m (0.5 miles)
Folkestone West 970,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Sandling 75,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cubitt House Folkestone120 m
Ferry terminalFolkestone Eurotunnel Terminal4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shellons Street Car Park610 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Upper Payers Car Park610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN63.7 km (40 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW95.9 km (60 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The New Surgery Good Feb 2025330 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mistvale Chemists300 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Blackbull Road Dental Surgery200 m
HospitalRoyal Victoria Hospital (Folkestone) Good Nov 2015620 m (0.4 miles)
Care homes20 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Claire's Care Home Requires improvement Sep 2026680 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationFolkestone Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM410 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Radnor Park 7.9 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canterbury Road Recreation Ground 1.8 ha180 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha360 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 8.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 18 and 20, Church Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 780 m (0.5 miles) south. 70 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
18 and 20, Church StreetListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) south
The Parish Church of St Mary and St EanswytheListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) south
Folkestone War MemorialListed building, Grade II*950 m (0.6 miles) south
Two Martello towers, East CliffScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
An unenclosed Iron Age urnfield and Roman villa, 60m ESE of No.64 Wear Bay RoadScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Medieval ringwork with bailey and approach causeway, incorporating a bowl barrow on Castle HillScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Boating PondLake or reservoir680 m (0.4 miles) west
Fishing PondLake or reservoir710 m (0.4 miles) west
East CliffCliff or slope940 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Folkestone BeachBeach1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Wingate HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
The WarrenWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 551314

1 of the street's 14 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Folkestone and Hythe: see them on the Folkestone and Hythe page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Mundella Primary SchoolPrimary3–11220 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 30% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Castle Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Christ Church Cep Academy, Folkestone Church of EnglandPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Stella Maris Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 37% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)
Folkestone, St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
St Eanswythe's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Folkestone St. Mary's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 40% in 2023)
Folkestone AcademySecondary11–191.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.0 (33.7 in 2025 and 31.0 in 2024); 25.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; progress average
Folkestone PrimaryPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 58% in 2023)
Martello PrimaryPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 39% in 2024 and 42% in 2023)
The Harvey Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 65.2 (61.8 in 2025 and 62.9 in 2024); 90.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 13.2% AAB or better; progress below average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 500 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Castle Hill Village Nursery CT19 6EQ Full day care 79 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 500 m (0.3 miles)
Christchurch Nursery CT20 1ER Full day care 36 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 530 m (0.3 miles)
Little Oaks Pre School CT19 5BY Full day care 40 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 530 m (0.3 miles)
Kiddiwinx Ltd CT20 1DJ Full day care 50 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 680 m (0.4 miles)
Goldilocks Nursery CT20 1EU Full day care 50 Good (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 760 m (0.5 miles)
Teachsport Canterbury CT20 1SE Out-of-school day care 30 Jan 2026: Expected standard in 1 area 770 m (0.5 miles)
Kip McGrath Folkestone & Hythe Education Centre CT20 2SA Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 930 m (0.6 miles)
Little Acorns Pre-School Folkestone CIO CT19 6LY Sessional day care 32 Apr 2026: Strong standard in 6 areas 930 m (0.6 miles)
The Nursery at Folkestone College CT20 2TZ Full day care 44 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
The Sports Trust Holiday Club CT19 5JU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 757 childminders and 217 home childcarers (nannies) in Kent. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Royal Tandoori Indian Restaurant CT19 5QPTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Jul 2026
Tops Pizza Folkestone CT19 5QTTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Nov 2025
Blackbull Cafe CT19 5QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good24 Nov 2023
Best One CT19 5QTRetailers - other130 m2 Improvement necessary16 Mar 2024
Foco Club CT19 5ABPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good17 Nov 2025
Golden Wok CT19 5QXTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Golden Wing CT19 5QLTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good22 Aug 2024
Red Cow CT19 5ABPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
Kris’s BBQ Shack CT19 5ABOther catering premises220 m5 Very good11 Sep 2026
Authentic Kebab CT19 5ABTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Dec 2022
American Shop CT19 5ABRetailers - other230 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Folkestone Charcoal Grill CT19 5ADTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m4 Good11 Aug 2025
Tesco CT19 5ABRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets260 m5 Very good4 Sep 2025
Salvation Army Citadel CT19 5NLOther catering premises280 m5 Very good3 Aug 2022
Spark CT19 5NURetailers - other280 m5 Very good16 Feb 2022

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

168 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences59
Anti-social behaviour40
Criminal damage and arson19
Other theft17
Vehicle crime9
Drugs7
Burglary6
Public order5
Other crime3
Robbery2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bradstone Avenue (23); On or near Shepway Close (19); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (19); On or near Black Bull Road (18); On or near Jesmond Street (14).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 4 serious and 7 slight, in which 4 people were seriously hurt. 5 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 9% happened in the dark, and 27% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202132
202210
202310
202421
202541
The most recent 10 of 11
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
2 Nov 2025 12:10 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
25 Sep 2025 18:18 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 Aug 2025 13:17 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
14 May 2025 12:35 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
4 Nov 2024 12:25 Slight 1 person A2033, 20 mph Daylight
17 Sep 2024 08:43 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Dec 2023 17:05 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A2033, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
24 May 2022 13:50 Slight 1 person A259, 30 mph Wet road
5 Jun 2021 12:53 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian A259, 30 mph Daylight
16 May 2021 16:55 Slight 1 person A259, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A259 between A2033 and A260, with 15,308 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 300 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A2033 A2033 New St to A259 6,656 estimated; counted 2019 1% +9% since 2015 210 m
A259 A2033 to A260 15,308 estimated; counted 2022 1% +5% since 2015 300 m
A2033 Tontine St to A260 9,179 estimated; counted 2018 1% -11% since 2015 350 m
A2033 A260 Tontine St/A2033 Dover Rd to A260 Southern Way 8,021 estimated; counted 2016 1% -17% since 2015 370 m
A2033 A2003 Grace Hill Roundabout to A2003 Foord Road North 9,179 estimated; counted 2018 1% -11% since 2015 420 m (0.3 miles)
A259 A2034 to Black Bull Rd 14,239 counted 2025 0% -2% since 2015 480 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 739 residents in 292 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 streetEngland
Median age3440
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented27%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 2 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.

What has changed

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Arras Close · Dawson Road · Linden Crescent · Brambledown · Bolton Road · Eastfields · Fern Bank Crescent · Black Bull Road · Bradstone Avenue · Baldwin Terrace · Shepway Close · Jesmond Street

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What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.