Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 9 secondary schools. Tunbury Primary School is the nearest published school at 165 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME5 9DN
Walderslade · Tonbridge and Malling · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Walderslade
- Local authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford
- Postcode district
- ME5
- Postcode sector
- ME5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME5 9DN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME5
- Postcode sector
- ME5 9
- Latitude
- 51.333484
- Longitude
- 0.523674
- British National Grid easting
- 575,900
- British National Grid northing
- 162,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Tonbridge and Malling · E07000115
- Electoral ward
- Walderslade · E05015053
- Parish or community
- E04005090
- Westminster constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford · E14001157
- Output area
- E00125483
- Lower layer super output area
- Tonbridge and Malling 001D · E01024722
- Middle layer super output area
- Tonbridge and Malling 001 · E02005149
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 ME5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 9
- 165 m
Tunbury Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Walderslade Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Lordswood School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,031
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 441
- Anti social behaviour 187
- Criminal damage and arson 96
- Other theft 91
- Vehicle crime 55
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME5 9 residents
- 11,828
Age bands in ME5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.6%
1,825 residents
1,123 residents
2,707 residents
3,265 residents
2,455 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
REACH HEALTHCARE
WALDERSLADE VILLAGE SURGERY, 62A ROBIN HOOD LANE, CHATHAM, ME5 9LD
ODS code G82161
476 m
KING GEORGE ROAD SURGERY
52A KING GEORGE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0TT
ODS code G82108
1.8 km
PHOENIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
33 BELL LANE, BURHAM, ROCHESTER, ME1 3SX
ODS code G82234
3.0 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
3.0 km
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
3.1 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
4.2 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
4.4 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
4.4 km
PARKWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
119 LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9RR
ODS code G82721
5.0 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
5.0 km
WIGMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
114 WOODSIDE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0PW
ODS code G82226
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Catkin Close
BCT · Walderslade
- 0.1 miles
Catkin Close
BCT · Walderslade
- 0.1 miles
Tunbury Avenue
BCT · Walderslade
- 0.2 miles
Tunbury Avenue
BCT · Walderslade
- 0.2 miles
Galena Close
BCT · Walderslade
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tonbridge and Malling 001D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,384 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,031 published events cover 12 months, averaging 85.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 441 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.