Property market
The five-year median is £150,000 from 4 recorded sales in ME16 8JQ. 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 8JQ
Fant & Oakwood · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Maidstone
- Ward
- Fant & Oakwood
- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME16 8JQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 8
- Latitude
- 51.270047
- Longitude
- 0.507121
- British National Grid easting
- 574,988
- British National Grid northing
- 155,307
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Fant & Oakwood · E05015599
- Parish or community
- E43000297
- Westminster constituency
- Maidstone and Malling · E14001349
- Output area
- E00123647
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 006G · E01033091
- 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
Property
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| St. Georges House, Flat 5, St Georges Square, Maidstone, ME16 8JQ | 17 June 2026 | £160,000 |
| St. Georges House, Flat 4, St Georges Square, Maidstone, ME16 8JQ | 5 September 2025 | £140,000 |
| St. Georges House, Flat 4, St Georges Square, Maidstone, ME16 8JQ | 23 April 2025 | £90,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 58
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 12
- 335 m
Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
- 335 m
St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone
Voluntary controlled school
- 431 m
Maidstone and Malling Alternative Provision
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,991
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,343
- Anti social behaviour 767
- Shoplifting 719
- Criminal damage and arson 520
- Other theft 399
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- ME16 8 residents
- 12,714
7 female, 6 male
Age bands in ME16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.3%
2,244 residents
1,337 residents
4,381 residents
3,162 residents
1,708 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME16 8 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.
GP practices
11
within 5 km
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
407 m
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
571 m
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
1.1 km
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
1.4 km
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
1.4 km
THE MEDICAL CENTRE GROUP
THE MEDICAL PRACTICE, 10A NORTHUMBERLAND COURT, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 7LN
ODS code G82604
3.3 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
GREENSAND MEDICAL GROUP
HEATH ROAD, LINTON, MAIDSTONE, ME17 4NU
ODS code G82024
4.4 km
WALLIS AVENUE
THE SURGERY, WALLIS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9JJ
ODS code G82641
4.6 km
BEARSTED
YEOMAN LANE, BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, ME14 4DS
ODS code G82074
4.6 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
- 0.1 miles
St Michael's Church
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
Bower Lane
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
St Michael's Church
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
Bower Lane
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
St Michael's Road
BCT · Upper Fant
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 006G, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,518 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
58 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 12 secondary schools. Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior School is the nearest published school at 335 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,991 published events cover 12 months, averaging 499.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,343 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.