Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 11 secondary schools. Leigh Academy Oaks is the nearest published school at 158 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME15 9BT
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME15 9BT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2023
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME15
- Postcode sector
- ME15 9
- Latitude
- 51.251465
- Longitude
- 0.540921
- British National Grid easting
- 577,417
- British National Grid northing
- 153,322
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
- E00123853
- 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
- 51
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 11
- 158 m
Leigh Academy Oaks
Academy sponsor led
- 328 m
Leigh Academy Molehill
Academy sponsor led
- 566 m
Five Acre Wood School
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,410
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,022
- Anti social behaviour 369
- Criminal damage and arson 284
- Shoplifting 163
- Other theft 132
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME15 9 residents
- 12,197
Age bands in ME15 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.9%
2,906 residents
1,353 residents
3,242 residents
2,837 residents
2,104 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
298 m
MOTE
ST. SAVIOURS SURGERY, ST. SAVIOURS ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9FL
ODS code G82076
608 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
2.3 km
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
2.8 km
BEARSTED
YEOMAN LANE, BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, ME14 4DS
ODS code G82074
2.9 km
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
3.1 km
GREENSAND MEDICAL GROUP
HEATH ROAD, LINTON, MAIDSTONE, ME17 4NU
ODS code G82024
3.4 km
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
3.4 km
LANGLEY
HORSESHOES LANE, LANGLEY, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3JY
ODS code G82691
4.0 km
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Grove Road
BCT · Shepway
- 0.1 miles
Mangravet Avenue
BCT · Shepway
- 0.1 miles
Grove Road
BCT · Shepway
- 0.1 miles
Mangravet Avenue
BCT · Shepway
- 0.3 miles
Sutton Road Police HQ
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
2,410 published events cover 12 months, averaging 200.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,022 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.