Property market
The five-year median is £3,650,000 from 2 recorded sales in ME16 0DU. 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 0DU
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 0DU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 0
- Latitude
- 51.277730
- Longitude
- 0.507424
- British National Grid easting
- 574,980
- British National Grid northing
- 156,162
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
- E00123560
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 003F · E01024341
- 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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 81a, London Road, Maidstone, ME16 0DU | 7 March 2023 | £1,500,000 |
| 79a, London Road, Maidstone, ME16 0DU | 18 October 2021 | £5,800,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 11
- 147 m
Brunswick House Primary School
Community school
- 340 m
The Maplesden Noakes School
Academy converter
- 391 m
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,905
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,334
- Anti social behaviour 736
- Shoplifting 681
- Criminal damage and arson 477
- Other theft 404
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME16 0 residents
- 14,394
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
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+
- 93.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 93.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 6.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 6.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 93.3%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 93.3%
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
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
449 m
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
930 m
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
1.1 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
1.5 km
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
1.8 km
AYLESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE NEW AYLESFORD SURGERY, ADMIRAL MOORE DRIVE, ROYAL BRITISH LEGION VILLAGE, AYLESFORD, ME20 7SE
ODS code G82058
2.9 km
THE MEDICAL CENTRE GROUP
THE MEDICAL PRACTICE, 10A NORTHUMBERLAND COURT, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 7LN
ODS code G82604
3.8 km
MOTE
ST. SAVIOURS SURGERY, ST. SAVIOURS ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9FL
ODS code G82076
4.3 km
BEARSTED
YEOMAN LANE, BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, ME14 4DS
ODS code G82074
4.7 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
Somerfield Hospital
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
Somerfield Hospital
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
London Road Retail Park
BCT · Allington
- 0.1 miles
Queen's Avenue
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
London Road Retail Park
BCT · Allington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 003F, 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
32,055 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
53 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 11 secondary schools. Brunswick House Primary School is the nearest published school at 147 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,905 published events cover 12 months, averaging 492.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,334 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.