Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 11 secondary schools. Barming Primary School is the nearest published school at 586 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME16 9QS
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 9QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME16
- Postcode sector
- ME16 9
- Latitude
- 51.271390
- Longitude
- 0.473157
- British National Grid easting
- 572,614
- British National Grid northing
- 155,376
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
- E00123485
- 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
- 50
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 11
- 586 m
Barming Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Bower Grove School
Foundation special school
- 1.3 km
West Borough Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,407
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 746
- Anti social behaviour 172
- Criminal damage and arson 127
- Other theft 103
- 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
9
within 5 km
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. ANDREWS ROAD, BARMING, MAIDSTONE, ME16 9AL
ODS code G82098
1.0 km
BOWER MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BOWER MOUNT ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8AX
ODS code G82031
2.4 km
AYLESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE NEW AYLESFORD SURGERY, ADMIRAL MOORE DRIVE, ROYAL BRITISH LEGION VILLAGE, AYLESFORD, ME20 7SE
ODS code G82058
2.7 km
THE VINE MEDICAL CENTRE
13 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME16 8RL
ODS code G82164
2.9 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
50-52 COLLEGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SB
ODS code G82099
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
3.8 km
THORNHILLS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LARKFIELD HEALTH CENTRE, MARTIN SQUARE, LARKFIELD, AYLESFORD, ME20 6QJ
ODS code G82083
3.9 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
- 0.2 miles
Banky Meadow
BCT · Barming
- 0.3 miles
The Redstart
BCT · Barming
- 0.3 miles
The Redstart
BCT · Barming
- 0.3 miles
Banky Meadow
BCT · Barming
- 0.3 miles
Long Rede Lane
BCT · Barming Heath
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,407 published events cover 12 months, averaging 117.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 746 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.