CT50 postcode district: Folkestone and around, Kent

CT50 is a postcode district in Kent, with 5 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Folkestone. Its council is Folkestone and Hythe.

Postcodes in use
5
Sectors
1
Council
Folkestone and Hythe
Places
Folkestone

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in CT50, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in CT50, by flood risk Of the 5 postcodes in CT50 that ONS places, 5 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Sandgate & West Folkestone. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A259 CT50 1AF: not on the flood risk listCT50 1ZY: not on the flood risk list Sandgate & West Folkestone Map of every postcode in CT50, by flood risk Of the 5 postcodes in CT50 that ONS places, 5 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Sandgate & West Folkestone. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Sandgate & West Folkestone
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 5

Of the 5 postcodes in CT50 that ONS places, 5 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.0799, longitude 1.1430. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Is CT50 at risk of flooding?

None of the 5 postcodes in CT50 is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in CT50

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

CT50 15 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in CT50

Towns and villages with postcodes in CT50, and how many each has here.

Folkestone postcodes,5

Who covers CT50

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Folkestone and Hythe5

Police force areas

  • Kent5

Next to CT50

CT21 postcode district All CT districts Folkestone postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the district before CT50 in the CT area.

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