Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lift St James the Great is the nearest published school at 393 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME20 6HL
East Malling, West Malling & Offham · Tonbridge and Malling · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling
- Postcode district
- ME20
- Postcode sector
- ME20 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME20 6HL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2004
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME20
- Postcode sector
- ME20 6
- Latitude
- 51.296796
- Longitude
- 0.429850
- British National Grid easting
- 569,500
- British National Grid northing
- 158,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Tonbridge and Malling · E07000115
- Electoral ward
- East Malling, West Malling & Offham · E05015042
- Parish or community
- E04012797
- Westminster constituency
- Maidstone and Malling · E14001349
- Output area
- E00125580
- Lower layer super output area
- Tonbridge and Malling 014A · E01024740
- 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 ME20
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 3
- 393 m
Lift St James the Great
Academy sponsor led
- 747 m
The Malling School
Foundation school
- 770 m
Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 964
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 361
- Anti social behaviour 153
- Criminal damage and arson 106
- Other theft 64
- Vehicle crime 62
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME20 6 residents
- 13,472
Age bands in ME20 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- 2,398 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- 1,282 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- 3,276 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- 3,651 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
- 2,988 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
THORNHILLS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LARKFIELD HEALTH CENTRE, MARTIN SQUARE, LARKFIELD, AYLESFORD, ME20 6QJ
ODS code G82083
859 m
AYLESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE NEW AYLESFORD SURGERY, ADMIRAL MOORE DRIVE, ROYAL BRITISH LEGION VILLAGE, AYLESFORD, ME20 7SE
ODS code G82058
3.2 km
WEST MALLING GROUP PRACTICE
37 QUEEN STREET, KINGS HILL, WEST MALLING, ME19 4JF
ODS code G82135
3.4 km
SNODLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
CATTS ALLEY, MALLING ROAD, SNODLAND, ME6 5SN
ODS code G82085
3.4 km
WATERINGBURY
14 PELICAN COURT, WATERINGBURY, MAIDSTONE, ME18 5SS
ODS code G82200
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 95 m
Chapman Way
BCT · Clare Park
- 131 m
Lunsford Lane Turning
BCT · Larkfield
- 159 m
Lunsford Lane Turning
BCT · Larkfield
- 250 m
Temple Way
BCT · Clare Park
- 301 m
Temple Way
BCT · Clare Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tonbridge and Malling 014A, 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
21,898 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
964 published events cover 12 months, averaging 80 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 361 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.