Property market
The five-year median is £480,000 from 1 recorded sale in ME17 2GL. 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 2GL
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 2GL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 2
- Latitude
- 51.236620
- Longitude
- 0.725007
- British National Grid easting
- 590,323
- British National Grid northing
- 152,132
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
- E00123674
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Essinger Walk, Lenham, Maidstone, ME17 2GL | 8 February 2024 | £480,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 852 m
Lenham Primary School
Community school
- 988 m
The Lenham School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.0 km
Platts Heath Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 280
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 106
- Shoplifting 60
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Other theft 19
- Criminal damage and arson 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME17 2 residents
- 4,056
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
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
1
within 5 km
LEN VALLEY PRACTICE
GROOM WAY, LENHAM, MAIDSTONE, ME17 2QF
ODS code G82093
172 m
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
Glebe Gardens
BCT · Lenham
- 0.1 miles
Glebe Gardens
BCT · Lenham
- 0.3 miles
The Square
BCT · Lenham
- 0.3 miles
The Square
BCT · Lenham
- 0.5 miles
Honywood Road
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.
Evidence in context
Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Lenham Primary School is the nearest published school at 852 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
280 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 106 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.