Property market
The five-year median is £625,000 from 1 recorded sale in ME14 4BP. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Maidstone is £352,191 in June 2026, up 0.1% year on year.
ME14 4BP
Bearsted & Downswood · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Maidstone
- Ward
- Bearsted & Downswood
- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- Postcode district
- ME14
- Postcode sector
- ME14 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME14 4BP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME14
- Postcode sector
- ME14 4
- Latitude
- 51.269530
- Longitude
- 0.561702
- British National Grid easting
- 578,797
- British National Grid northing
- 155,381
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Bearsted & Downswood · E05015595
- Parish or community
- E04004942
- Westminster constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent · E14001235
- Output area
- E00123495
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 005A · E01024330
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 005 · E02005072
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore ME14
Property
37 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 33, Ashford Road, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4BP | 23 September 2022 | £625,000 |
| 59, Ashford Road, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4BP | 28 May 2021 | £725,000 |
| 13, Ashford Road, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4BP | 11 February 2021 | £660,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 10
- 654 m
Roseacre Junior School
Foundation school
- 691 m
Thurnham Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 729 m
Madginford Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 712
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 305
- Anti social behaviour 152
- Criminal damage and arson 69
- Other theft 45
- Vehicle crime 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 91
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- ME14 4 residents
- 6,007
51 female, 40 male
Age bands in ME14 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.3%
981 residents
445 residents
1,044 residents
1,597 residents
1,531 residents
This postcode contained 1.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME14 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 93.5%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
9
within 5 km
BEARSTED
YEOMAN LANE, BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, ME14 4DS
ODS code G82074
791 m
THE MEDICAL CENTRE GROUP
THE MEDICAL PRACTICE, 10A NORTHUMBERLAND COURT, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 7LN
ODS code G82604
2.2 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
2.8 km
MOTE
ST. SAVIOURS SURGERY, ST. SAVIOURS ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9FL
ODS code G82076
2.8 km
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
2.8 km
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
3.3 km
WALLIS AVENUE
THE SURGERY, WALLIS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9JJ
ODS code G82641
3.3 km
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
3.9 km
LANGLEY
HORSESHOES LANE, LANGLEY, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3JY
ODS code G82691
4.2 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Landway
BCT · Bearsted
- 0.0 miles
The Landway
BCT · Bearsted
- 0.2 miles
Plantation Lane
BCT · Bearsted
- 0.2 miles
Biddenden Close
BCT · Madginford
- 0.2 miles
Biddenden Close
BCT · Madginford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 005A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,069 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 10 secondary schools. Roseacre Junior School is the nearest published school at 654 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
712 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 305 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.