Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Sutton Valence School is the nearest published school at 646 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME17 3BU
Headcorn & Sutton Valence · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME17 3BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 3
- Latitude
- 51.210397
- Longitude
- 0.599986
- British National Grid easting
- 581,700
- British National Grid northing
- 148,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Headcorn & Sutton Valence · E05015602
- Parish or community
- E04004972
- Westminster constituency
- Weald of Kent · E14001570
- Output area
- E00123917
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 017D · E01024411
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 017 · E02005084
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
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 646 m
Sutton Valence School
Other independent school
- 825 m
Sutton Valence Primary School
Community school
- 3.0 km
Kingswood Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 112
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 34
- Other theft 22
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Other crime 7
- Burglary 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME17 3 residents
- 7,029
Age bands in ME17 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,391 residents
707 residents
1,957 residents
2,025 residents
1,549 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
SUTTON VALENCE GROUP PRACTICE
SOUTH LANE, SUTTON VALENCE, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3BD
ODS code G82229
424 m
LANGLEY
HORSESHOES LANE, LANGLEY, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3JY
ODS code G82691
3.0 km
WALLIS AVENUE
THE SURGERY, WALLIS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9JJ
ODS code G82641
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
The King's Head
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.5 miles
The King's Head
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.5 miles
The Harbour
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.5 miles
The Harbour
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.5 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Sutton Valence
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 017D, 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
14,817 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
112 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 34 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.