Property market
The five-year median is £1,154,500 from 2 recorded sales in ME17 3DB. 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 3DB
Headcorn & Sutton Valence · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Maidstone
- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME17 3DB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 3
- Latitude
- 51.213073
- Longitude
- 0.602213
- British National Grid easting
- 581,845
- British National Grid northing
- 149,203
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
- E00170373
- 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
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Millfield House, East Sutton Road, Sutton Valence, Maidstone, ME17 3DB | 12 December 2025 | £859,000 |
| Cherry Trees, East Sutton Road, Sutton Valence, Maidstone, ME17 3DB | 12 September 2025 | £1,450,000 |
| Beggars Way, East Sutton Road, Sutton Valence, Maidstone, ME17 3DB | 20 November 2020 | £1,100,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 628 m
Sutton Valence School
Other independent school
- 836 m
Sutton Valence Primary School
Community school
- 2.7 km
Kingswood Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 127
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 38
- Other theft 24
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Burglary 8
- Other crime 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- ME17 3 residents
- 7,029
9 female, 11 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME17 3 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 85.7%
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
3
within 5 km
SUTTON VALENCE GROUP PRACTICE
SOUTH LANE, SUTTON VALENCE, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3BD
ODS code G82229
607 m
LANGLEY
HORSESHOES LANE, LANGLEY, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3JY
ODS code G82691
2.7 km
WALLIS AVENUE
THE SURGERY, WALLIS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9JJ
ODS code G82641
4.6 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
- 0.5 miles
The King's Head
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.5 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.5 miles
The King's Head
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.5 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.5 miles
Chartway Street
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.
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
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Sutton Valence School is the nearest published school at 628 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
127 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 38 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.