Property market
The five-year median is £905,000 from 2 recorded sales in ME17 1QL. 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.
ME17 1QL
Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Maidstone
- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME17 1QL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 1
- Latitude
- 51.272388
- Longitude
- 0.669312
- British National Grid easting
- 586,291
- British National Grid northing
- 155,966
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs · E05015601
- Parish or community
- E04004958
- Westminster constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent · E14001235
- Output area
- E00123803
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 011D · E01024387
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 011 · E02005078
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 ME17
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Tile Barn Cottage, Hollingbourne, Maidstone, ME17 1QL | 9 January 2026 | £555,000 |
| Tile Barn Farmhouse, Hollingbourne, Maidstone, ME17 1QL | 24 October 2025 | £1,255,000 |
| 2, Tile Barn Cottage, Hollingbourne, Maidstone, ME17 1QL | 31 July 2019 | £505,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.5 km
Hollingbourne Primary School
Community school
- 3.0 km
Yew Tree Farm School
Other independent special school
- 3.2 km
Harrietsham Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- ME17 1 residents
- 6,700
5 female, 5 male
Age bands in ME17 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
1,065 residents
553 residents
1,406 residents
1,889 residents
1,478 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME17 1 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 14.3%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.3 miles
Church
BCT · Hollingbourne
- 1.9 miles
Harrietsham Rail Station
RLY · Harrietsham
- 1.9 miles
Harrietsham Rail Station
RSE · Harrietsham
- 1.9 miles
Harrietsham Rail Station
RSE · Harrietsham
- 1.9 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Harrietsham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 011D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,398 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hollingbourne Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.