Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 13 secondary schools. Barming Primary School is the nearest published school at 285 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME16 9DT
Barming Heath & Teston · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME16 9DT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 9
- Latitude
- 51.264692
- Longitude
- 0.476453
- British National Grid easting
- 572,869
- British National Grid northing
- 154,639
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Barming Heath & Teston · E05015594
- Parish or community
- E04013397
- Westminster constituency
- Maidstone and Malling · E14001349
- Output area
- E00123699
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 008E · E01024369
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 008 · E02005075
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
- 50
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 13
- 285 m
Barming Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 834 m
Jubilee Primary School
Free schools
- 871 m
Bower Grove School
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,443
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 756
- Anti social behaviour 192
- Criminal damage and arson 131
- Other theft 101
- Public order 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME16 9 residents
- 7,308
Age bands in ME16 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
1,487 residents
802 residents
1,985 residents
1,751 residents
1,292 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
820 m
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
2.4 km
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
2.8 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
3.2 km
AYLESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE NEW AYLESFORD SURGERY, ADMIRAL MOORE DRIVE, ROYAL BRITISH LEGION VILLAGE, AYLESFORD, ME20 7SE
ODS code G82058
3.4 km
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
3.6 km
WATERINGBURY
14 PELICAN COURT, WATERINGBURY, MAIDSTONE, ME18 5SS
ODS code G82200
3.7 km
GREENSAND MEDICAL GROUP
HEATH ROAD, LINTON, MAIDSTONE, ME17 4NU
ODS code G82024
4.4 km
THORNHILLS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LARKFIELD HEALTH CENTRE, MARTIN SQUARE, LARKFIELD, AYLESFORD, ME20 6QJ
ODS code G82083
4.7 km
THE MEDICAL CENTRE GROUP
THE MEDICAL PRACTICE, 10A NORTHUMBERLAND COURT, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 7LN
ODS code G82604
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Glebe Lane
BCT · Barming
- 0.1 miles
Beverley Road
BCT · Barming
- 0.1 miles
Glebe Lane
BCT · Barming
- 0.1 miles
Beverley Road Shops
BCT · Barming
- 0.1 miles
Beverley Road Shops
BCT · Barming
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 008E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,008 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,443 published events cover 12 months, averaging 120.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 756 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.