Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 12 secondary schools. St Augustine Academy is the nearest published school at 283 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME16 8NB
Fant & Oakwood · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 8NB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 8
- Latitude
- 51.268385
- Longitude
- 0.501999
- British National Grid easting
- 574,637
- British National Grid northing
- 155,110
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
- E00123654
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 006C · E01024356
- 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
- 57
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 12
- 283 m
St Augustine Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 286 m
Oakwood Park Grammar School
Academy converter
- 620 m
St Simon Stock Catholic School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,547
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,940
- Anti social behaviour 617
- Criminal damage and arson 432
- Shoplifting 347
- Other theft 314
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME16 8 residents
- 12,714
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
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
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
684 m
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
963 m
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
1.1 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
1.4 km
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
1.8 km
THE MEDICAL CENTRE GROUP
THE MEDICAL PRACTICE, 10A NORTHUMBERLAND COURT, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 7LN
ODS code G82604
3.5 km
AYLESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE NEW AYLESFORD SURGERY, ADMIRAL MOORE DRIVE, ROYAL BRITISH LEGION VILLAGE, AYLESFORD, ME20 7SE
ODS code G82058
3.5 km
MOTE
ST. SAVIOURS SURGERY, ST. SAVIOURS ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9FL
ODS code G82076
3.9 km
GREENSAND MEDICAL GROUP
HEATH ROAD, LINTON, MAIDSTONE, ME17 4NU
ODS code G82024
4.3 km
WALLIS AVENUE
THE SURGERY, WALLIS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9JJ
ODS code G82641
4.7 km
BEARSTED
YEOMAN LANE, BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, ME14 4DS
ODS code G82074
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Poplars
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
The Poplars
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
Clare Park
BCT · Maidstone
- 0.1 miles
Upper Fant Road
BCT · Upper Fant
- 0.1 miles
Upper Fant Road
BCT · Upper Fant
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 006C, 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
18,072 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,547 published events cover 12 months, averaging 378.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,940 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.