BIGGIN STREET, CT16 1BU House Prices & Local Information

CT16 1BU is an up-and-coming urban area on Biggin Street, 0.9km from Clarendon in Dover. Administratively it sits within Town & Castle ward and the Dover constituency.

This is a well-established rental postcode — residents in this subgroup are typically single or divorced eu-born migrants who live alone. many are aged 25 to 44 and are employed in sales and customer service occupations or are process, plant and machine operatives. a higher than group average proportion identify with the white ethnic group or other asian ethnicities, and many do not speak english very well or well. housing is principally in flats in the social or private rented sector, with households typically overcrowded, and home ownership rare. Work and footfall patterns mark this as a low density wholesale and retail zone — low density wholesale and retail in mostly white areas, often on urban fringe or close to transport nodes. This is a stable, socially diverse area (average age 36) — accessible for a wide range of households, from young families to empty nesters. 69% of homes are privately rented — a strong rental market with good supply for incoming tenants.

Safety: Crime rates are high (207 per 1,000 residents) — commercial zones and transport hubs in the vicinity contribute to these figures. Property: Average house prices are around £204k. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for CT16 1BU are sourced from Output Area E00190173 (shared with 37 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.