Property market
The five-year median is £502,500 from 2 recorded sales in ME16 0BY. 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.
ME16 0BY
Palace Wood · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Maidstone
- Ward
- Palace Wood
- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME16 0BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 0
- Latitude
- 51.282234
- Longitude
- 0.500356
- British National Grid easting
- 574,470
- British National Grid northing
- 156,646
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Palace Wood · E05015607
- Parish or community
- E43000297
- Westminster constituency
- Maidstone and Malling · E14001349
- Output area
- E00123475
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 003C · E01024322
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 003 · E02005070
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 ME16
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Poplar Grove, Maidstone, ME16 0BY | 31 March 2025 | £525,000 |
| 6, Poplar Grove, Maidstone, ME16 0BY | 27 September 2021 | £480,000 |
| 6, Poplar Grove, Maidstone, ME16 0BY | 2 June 2017 | £395,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 12
- 382 m
Palace Wood Primary School
Community school
- 662 m
Allington Primary School
Academy converter
- 705 m
The Maplesden Noakes School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,404
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,021
- Anti social behaviour 339
- Shoplifting 222
- Criminal damage and arson 184
- Other theft 168
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- ME16 0 residents
- 14,394
11 female, 12 male
Age bands in ME16 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
2,381 residents
1,387 residents
3,541 residents
3,831 residents
3,116 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME16 0 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
- 100%
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
8
within 5 km straight-line
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
1.1 km
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
1.6 km
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
1.7 km
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
1.8 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
2.2 km
AYLESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE NEW AYLESFORD SURGERY, ADMIRAL MOORE DRIVE, ROYAL BRITISH LEGION VILLAGE, AYLESFORD, ME20 7SE
ODS code G82058
2.2 km
THE MEDICAL CENTRE GROUP
THE MEDICAL PRACTICE, 10A NORTHUMBERLAND COURT, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 7LN
ODS code G82604
4.5 km
THORNHILLS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LARKFIELD HEALTH CENTRE, MARTIN SQUARE, LARKFIELD, AYLESFORD, ME20 6QJ
ODS code G82083
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Riverhead Close
BCT · Allington
- 0.0 miles
Riverhead Close
BCT · Allington
- 0.0 miles
Grace Avenue
BCT · Allington
- 0.0 miles
Grace Avenue
BCT · Allington
- 0.1 miles
Grace Avenue Tesco Express
BCT · Allington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 003C, 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
32,484 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
55 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 12 secondary schools. Palace Wood Primary School is the nearest published school at 382 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,404 published events cover 12 months, averaging 200.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,021 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.