Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Yew Tree Farm School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME9 0YZ
Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- Postcode district
- ME9
- Postcode sector
- ME9 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME9 0YZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 April 2003
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME9
- Postcode sector
- ME9 0
- Latitude
- 51.274336
- Longitude
- 0.682430
- British National Grid easting
- 587,198
- British National Grid northing
- 156,216
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs · E05015601
- Parish or community
- E04004979
- Westminster constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent · E14001235
- Output area
- E00123809
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 011D · E01024387
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 011 · E02005078
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 ME9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.5 km
Yew Tree Farm School
Other independent special school
- 3.5 km
Hollingbourne Primary School
Community school
- 3.6 km
Harrietsham Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME9 0 residents
- 2,676
Age bands in ME9 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
409 residents
291 residents
526 residents
893 residents
700 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
LEN VALLEY PRACTICE
GROOM WAY, LENHAM, MAIDSTONE, ME17 2QF
ODS code G82093
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 2.1 miles
Harrietsham Rail Station
RSE · Harrietsham
- 2.1 miles
Harrietsham Rail Station
RLY · Harrietsham
- 2.1 miles
Harrietsham Rail Station
RSE · Harrietsham
- 2.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Harrietsham
- 2.2 miles
Percival's Rest
BCT · Harrietsham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 011D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,398 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.