Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 11 secondary schools. Leigh Academy Molehill is the nearest published school at 173 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME15 7PE
Shepway · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shepway
- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- Postcode district
- ME15
- Postcode sector
- ME15 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME15 7PE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME15
- Postcode sector
- ME15 7
- Latitude
- 51.251149
- Longitude
- 0.546392
- British National Grid easting
- 577,800
- British National Grid northing
- 153,300
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
- E00123854
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 11
- 173 m
Leigh Academy Molehill
Academy sponsor led
- 490 m
Leigh Academy Oaks
Academy sponsor led
- 662 m
Greenfields Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,503
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,050
- Anti social behaviour 398
- Criminal damage and arson 287
- Shoplifting 169
- Other theft 142
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME15 7 residents
- 11,468
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
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
186 m
MOTE
ST. SAVIOURS SURGERY, ST. SAVIOURS ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9FL
ODS code G82076
478 m
WALLIS AVENUE
THE SURGERY, WALLIS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9JJ
ODS code G82641
1.2 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
2.6 km
BEARSTED
YEOMAN LANE, BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, ME14 4DS
ODS code G82074
2.6 km
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
3.1 km
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
3.3 km
LANGLEY
HORSESHOES LANE, LANGLEY, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3JY
ODS code G82691
3.6 km
GREENSAND MEDICAL GROUP
HEATH ROAD, LINTON, MAIDSTONE, ME17 4NU
ODS code G82024
3.7 km
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
3.7 km
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
St Martin's Church
BCT · Shepway
- 0.2 miles
St Martin's Church
BCT · Shepway
- 0.2 miles
Sutton Road Police HQ
BCT · Shepway
- 0.2 miles
Sutton Road Police HQ
BCT · Shepway
- 0.2 miles
Grove 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,503 published events cover 12 months, averaging 208.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,050 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.