Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Kingswood Primary School is the nearest published school at 278 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME17 3PU
Leeds & Langley · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Leeds & Langley
- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME17 3PU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 3
- Latitude
- 51.224964
- Longitude
- 0.632318
- British National Grid easting
- 583,900
- British National Grid northing
- 150,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Leeds & Langley · E05015604
- Parish or community
- E04004948
- Westminster constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent · E14001235
- Output area
- E00123740
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 015C · E01024375
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 015 · E02005082
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
- 278 m
Kingswood Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Ulcombe Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.9 km
Sutton Valence School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 93
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Violence and sexual offences 23
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Other theft 10
- Vehicle crime 7
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
LANGLEY
HORSESHOES LANE, LANGLEY, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3JY
ODS code G82691
3.0 km
SUTTON VALENCE GROUP PRACTICE
SOUTH LANE, SUTTON VALENCE, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3BD
ODS code G82229
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Kingswood
- 0.1 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Kingswood
- 0.2 miles
The Waldens
BCT · Kingswood
- 0.2 miles
Gravelly Bottom Road
BCT · Kingswood
- 0.2 miles
Gravelly Bottom Road
BCT · Kingswood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 015C, 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
15,474 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 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
93 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 26 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.