Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Lenham Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME17 2DS
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME17 2DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 2
- Latitude
- 51.230503
- Longitude
- 0.745461
- British National Grid easting
- 591,776
- British National Grid northing
- 151,505
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
- E04004963
- Westminster constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent · E14001235
- Output area
- E00123675
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 011B · E01024362
- 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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| New Shelve Farm, The Cart Lodge, Ashford Road, Lenham, Maidstone, ME17 2DS | 19 June 2020 | £1,710,000 |
| New Shelve Bungalow, Ashford Road, Lenham, Maidstone, ME17 2DS | 18 March 2010 | £650,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.4 km
Lenham Primary School
Community school
- 2.6 km
The Lenham School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.6 km
Heath Farm School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Other theft 3
- Other crime 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- ME17 2 residents
- 4,056
3 female, 9 male
Age bands in ME17 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
614 residents
375 residents
808 residents
1,292 residents
1,156 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME17 2 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+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 80%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
2
within 5 km
LEN VALLEY PRACTICE
GROOM WAY, LENHAM, MAIDSTONE, ME17 2QF
ODS code G82093
1.8 km
CHARING SURGERY
1 SURGERY CLOSE, CHARING, ASHFORD, TN27 0AW
ODS code G82094
4.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rayners Hill
BCT · Lenham
- 0.1 miles
Rayners Hill
BCT · Lenham
- 1.1 miles
Rose Lane
BCT · Charing Heath
- 1.1 miles
Rose Lane
BCT · Charing Heath
- 1.1 miles
Glebe Gardens
BCT · Lenham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 011B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,613 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
20 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.