Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Heath Farm School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME17 2JH
Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 2JH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2003
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 2
- Latitude
- 51.219236
- Longitude
- 0.749158
- British National Grid easting
- 592,081
- British National Grid northing
- 150,262
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
- E00123680
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Heath Farm School
Other independent special school
- 3.2 km
Charing Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.2 km
Lenham Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 73
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 39
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Other theft 4
- Public order 3
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
LEN VALLEY PRACTICE
GROOM WAY, LENHAM, MAIDSTONE, ME17 2QF
ODS code G82093
2.7 km
CHARING SURGERY
1 SURGERY CLOSE, CHARING, ASHFORD, TN27 0AW
ODS code G82094
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Rose Lane
BCT · Charing Heath
- 0.3 miles
Rose Lane
BCT · Charing Heath
- 0.5 miles
Church
BCT · Charing Heath
- 0.5 miles
Church
BCT · Charing Heath
- 0.8 miles
Wind Hill Lane
BCT · Charing Heath
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
Recorded crime
73 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 39 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.