Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Staplehurst School is the nearest published school at 2.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TN12 9BZ
Marden & Yalding · Maidstone · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Marden & Yalding
- Local authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent
- Postcode district
- TN12
- Postcode sector
- TN12 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TN12 9BZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- TN
- Postcode district
- TN12
- Postcode sector
- TN12 9
- Latitude
- 51.191117
- Longitude
- 0.535924
- British National Grid easting
- 577,300
- British National Grid northing
- 146,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Maidstone · E07000110
- Electoral ward
- Marden & Yalding · E05015606
- Parish or community
- E04004966
- Westminster constituency
- Weald of Kent · E14001570
- Output area
- E00123762
- Lower layer super output area
- Maidstone 018B · E01024379
- Middle layer super output area
- Maidstone 018 · E02005085
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 TN12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.4 km
Staplehurst School
Community school
- 3.9 km
Leigh Academy Marden
Academy converter
- 4.2 km
Boughton Monchelsea Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 31
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 16
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Drugs 2
- Other crime 2
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TN12 9 residents
- 5,774
Age bands in TN12 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
1,147 residents
553 residents
1,487 residents
1,684 residents
1,043 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
MARDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
CHURCH GREEN, MARDEN, TONBRIDGE, TN12 9HP
ODS code G82215
3.6 km
SUTTON VALENCE GROUP PRACTICE
SOUTH LANE, SUTTON VALENCE, MAIDSTONE, ME17 3BD
ODS code G82229
4.6 km
GREENSAND MEDICAL GROUP
HEATH ROAD, LINTON, MAIDSTONE, ME17 4NU
ODS code G82024
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Chart Hill Road
BCT · Cross-at-Hand
- 0.5 miles
Chart Hill Road
BCT · Cross-at-Hand
- 0.9 miles
Underlyn Industrial Estate
BCT · Underling Green
- 0.9 miles
Underlyn Industrial Estate
BCT · Underling Green
- 1.1 miles
Stilebridge Lane
BCT · Stile Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Maidstone 018B, 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
13,640 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
31 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 16 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.