Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ryarsh Primary School is the nearest published school at 438 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME19 5LR
Birling, Leybourne & Ryarsh · Tonbridge and Malling · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge
- Postcode district
- ME19
- Postcode sector
- ME19 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME19 5LR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME19
- Postcode sector
- ME19 5
- Latitude
- 51.310631
- Longitude
- 0.394348
- British National Grid easting
- 566,975
- British National Grid northing
- 159,557
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Tonbridge and Malling · E07000115
- Electoral ward
- Birling, Leybourne & Ryarsh · E05015037
- Parish or community
- E04012346
- Westminster constituency
- Tonbridge · E14001549
- Output area
- E00186715
- Lower layer super output area
- Tonbridge and Malling 014F · E01032829
- Middle layer super output area
- Tonbridge and Malling 014 · E02006833
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 ME19
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 2
- 438 m
Ryarsh Primary School
Community school
- 880 m
The Rosewood School
Pupil referral unit
- 951 m
Valley Invicta Primary School At Leybourne Chase
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 133
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 45
- Anti social behaviour 23
- Vehicle crime 17
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Other theft 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME19 5 residents
- 8,183
Age bands in ME19 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.3%
1,562 residents
710 residents
2,225 residents
2,239 residents
1,504 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
THORNHILLS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LARKFIELD HEALTH CENTRE, MARTIN SQUARE, LARKFIELD, AYLESFORD, ME20 6QJ
ODS code G82083
3.5 km
SNODLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
CATTS ALLEY, MALLING ROAD, SNODLAND, ME6 5SN
ODS code G82085
3.8 km
WEST MALLING GROUP PRACTICE
37 QUEEN STREET, KINGS HILL, WEST MALLING, ME19 4JF
ODS code G82135
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Brookline Depot
BCT · Ryarsh
- 0.2 miles
Duke of Wellington
BCT · Ryarsh
- 0.2 miles
Duke of Wellington
BCT · Ryarsh
- 0.3 miles
Church Road
BCT · Ryarsh
- 0.3 miles
The Street
BCT · Ryarsh
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tonbridge and Malling 014F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,573 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 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
133 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 45 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.