Schools
49 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 12 secondary schools. Barming Primary School is the nearest published school at 435 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME16 9ET
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 9ET
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 9
- Latitude
- 51.262483
- Longitude
- 0.470772
- British National Grid easting
- 572,481
- British National Grid northing
- 154,380
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
- E00123486
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 014A · E01024325
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 014 · E02005081
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
- 49
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 12
- 435 m
Barming Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 938 m
St Helens Montessori School
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
Jubilee Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 705
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 276
- Anti social behaviour 150
- Criminal damage and arson 74
- Other theft 50
- Vehicle crime 35
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- ME16 9 residents
- 7,308
0 female, 3 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME16 9 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
10
within 5 km
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
1.3 km
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
2.8 km
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
3.2 km
WATERINGBURY
14 PELICAN COURT, WATERINGBURY, MAIDSTONE, ME18 5SS
ODS code G82200
3.2 km
AYLESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE NEW AYLESFORD SURGERY, ADMIRAL MOORE DRIVE, ROYAL BRITISH LEGION VILLAGE, AYLESFORD, ME20 7SE
ODS code G82058
3.7 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
3.7 km
BREWER STREET
4 BREWER STREET, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1RU
ODS code G82089
4.0 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
WEST MALLING GROUP PRACTICE
37 QUEEN STREET, KINGS HILL, WEST MALLING, ME19 4JF
ODS code G82135
4.9 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
The Bull
BCT · Barming
- 0.1 miles
The Bull
BCT · Barming
- 0.1 miles
The Bull
BCT · Barming
- 0.2 miles
Glebe Lane
BCT · Barming
- 0.2 miles
Glebe Lane
BCT · Barming
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 014A, 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
28,078 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Recorded crime
705 published events cover 12 months, averaging 58.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 276 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.