Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 12 secondary schools. MEPA ACADEMY is the nearest published school at 381 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME16 0SW
Allington & Bridge · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Allington & Bridge
- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME16 0SW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2004
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 0
- Latitude
- 51.274540
- Longitude
- 0.515711
- British National Grid easting
- 575,570
- British National Grid northing
- 155,827
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Allington & Bridge · E05015593
- Parish or community
- E43000297
- Westminster constituency
- Maidstone and Malling · E14001349
- Output area
- E00186831
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 006B · E01024340
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 006 · E02005073
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 12
- 381 m
MEPA ACADEMY
Other independent school
- 579 m
Brunswick House Primary School
Community school
- 634 m
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,048
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,220
- Anti social behaviour 815
- Shoplifting 728
- Criminal damage and arson 528
- Other theft 425
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.
GP practices
11
within 5 km straight-line
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
403 m
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
622 m
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
629 m
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
823 m
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
2.1 km
THE MEDICAL CENTRE GROUP
THE MEDICAL PRACTICE, 10A NORTHUMBERLAND COURT, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 7LN
ODS code G82604
3.2 km
AYLESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE NEW AYLESFORD SURGERY, ADMIRAL MOORE DRIVE, ROYAL BRITISH LEGION VILLAGE, AYLESFORD, ME20 7SE
ODS code G82058
3.6 km
MOTE
ST. SAVIOURS SURGERY, ST. SAVIOURS ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9FL
ODS code G82076
3.7 km
BEARSTED
YEOMAN LANE, BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, ME14 4DS
ODS code G82074
4.0 km
WALLIS AVENUE
THE SURGERY, WALLIS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9JJ
ODS code G82641
4.6 km
GREENSAND MEDICAL GROUP
HEATH ROAD, LINTON, MAIDSTONE, ME17 4NU
ODS code G82024
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Earl Street
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.2 miles
Earl Street
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.2 miles
Earl Street
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.2 miles
Maidstone Barracks Rail Station
RSE · Maidstone
- 0.2 miles
Maidstone Barracks Rail Station
RLY · Maidstone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 006B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,929 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
6,048 published events cover 12 months, averaging 504 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,220 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.