Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Sutton Valence School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME17 3ZD
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 3ZD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2023
- Terminated
- 1 July 2024
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME17
- Postcode sector
- ME17 3
- Latitude
- 51.205087
- Longitude
- 0.592041
- British National Grid easting
- 581,166
- British National Grid northing
- 148,290
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.1 km
Sutton Valence School
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
Sutton Valence Primary School
Community school
- 3.7 km
Ulcombe Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 84
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 26
- Other theft 20
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Vehicle crime 6
- Burglary 4
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
694 m
LANGLEY
HORSESHOES LANE, LANGLEY, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3JY
ODS code G82691
3.5 km
WALLIS AVENUE
THE SURGERY, WALLIS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, MAIDSTONE, ME15 9JJ
ODS code G82641
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Harbour
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.1 miles
The Harbour
BCT · Sutton Valence
- 0.4 miles
Layby
BCT · Gladdish
- 0.5 miles
Layby
BCT · Gladdish
- 0.6 miles
The King's Head
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
84 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 26 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.