Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 11 secondary schools. Leigh Academy Molehill is the nearest published school at 350 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME15 7NR
Shepway · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME15 7NR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2025
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME15
- Postcode sector
- ME15 7
- Latitude
- 51.252793
- Longitude
- 0.546870
- British National Grid easting
- 577,827
- British National Grid northing
- 153,484
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Shepway · E05015612
- Parish or community
- E43000297
- Westminster constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent · E14001235
- Output area
- E00123868
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 013E · E01024398
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 013 · E02005080
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 ME15
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Winchester House, Flat 4, Cambridge Crescent, Maidstone, ME15 7NR | 7 November 2014 | £90,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 11
- 350 m
Leigh Academy Molehill
Academy sponsor led
- 486 m
Greenfields Community Primary School
Community school
- 582 m
Leigh Academy Oaks
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,437
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,019
- Anti social behaviour 392
- Criminal damage and arson 283
- Shoplifting 168
- Other theft 134
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- ME15 7 residents
- 11,468
0 female, 10 male
Age bands in ME15 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.5%
2,002 residents
1,191 residents
2,895 residents
2,938 residents
1,781 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME15 7 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.
GP practices
11
within 5 km straight-line
THE MEDICAL CENTRE GROUP
THE MEDICAL PRACTICE, 10A NORTHUMBERLAND COURT, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 7LN
ODS code G82604
145 m
MOTE
ST. SAVIOURS SURGERY, ST. SAVIOURS ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9FL
ODS code G82076
664 m
WALLIS AVENUE
THE SURGERY, WALLIS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9JJ
ODS code G82641
1.4 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
2.4 km
BEARSTED
YEOMAN LANE, BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, ME14 4DS
ODS code G82074
2.5 km
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
3.0 km
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
3.2 km
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
3.6 km
LANGLEY
HORSESHOES LANE, LANGLEY, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3JY
ODS code G82691
3.7 km
GREENSAND MEDICAL GROUP
HEATH ROAD, LINTON, MAIDSTONE, ME17 4NU
ODS code G82024
3.8 km
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St Martin's Church
BCT · Shepway
- 0.1 miles
St Martin's Church
BCT · Shepway
- 0.1 miles
Oxford Road
BCT · Shepway
- 0.1 miles
Oxford Road
BCT · Shepway
- 0.2 miles
Suffolk Road
BCT · Shepway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 013E, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,345 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
Recorded crime
2,437 published events cover 12 months, averaging 203.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,019 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.