TN11 9ZJ Tonbridge and Malling

Live postcode, introduced June 1996. Ward: Cage Green & Angel. Region: South East.

Streets

House prices and rents in Tonbridge and Malling

A typical home in Tonbridge and Malling cost £405,507 in August 2026, 0.1% less than a year before. That is 9% more than five years earlier and 26% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£687,291
Semi-detached£424,680
Terraced£343,276
Flat or maisonette£221,399
Bought by a first-time buyer£324,939

Private renters in Tonbridge and Malling paid £1,500 a month on average in September 2026, 3.6% more than a year before. That is 32% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,039
Two bedrooms£1,343
Three bedrooms£1,639
Four or more bedrooms£2,498

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in Tonbridge and Malling in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,648£1,923£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,944

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band D (48% of about 810 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the postcode, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode spilled 142 times, for 1,093 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into The Botany Stream, The Somerhill Stream, Botany Stream, The River Medway.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Tonbridge Wwtw Southern Water The Botany Stream 3 22 400 m (0.2 miles)
Tonbridge Wwtw Southern Water The Botany Stream 16 180 400 m (0.2 miles)
Priory Mill Tonbridge Wps Southern Water The Somerhill Stream 53 611 470 m (0.3 miles)
Priory Road Tonbridge O/S 86 Cso Southern Water Botany Stream 30 86 600 m (0.4 miles)
Cannon Lane Combined Sewer Overflow Southern Water The River Medway 40 195 940 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Historic landfill

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode, the nearest 200 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
2-8 Morley Road Tonbridge, Kent 1930 to 1960 Not recorded 200 m
Vale Road Tonbridge, Kent 1967 to 1971 Inert, commercial 380 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The postcode's address is about 28 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsTonbridge 4.0 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
High Brooms 1.1 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.8 miles)
Hildenborough 353,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Somerhill Road Tonbridge180 m
Bus or coach stationLeigh (Kent) - Fleur de Lis PH5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sovereign Way East Car Park690 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW33.4 km (21 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Warders Medical Centre Good Oct 20201 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest East Street Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stradbrook Dental Practice880 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalTonbridge Cottage Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barnes Lodge Requires improvement May 2023630 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationTonbridge Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Petrol East Peckham - Tonbridge, East Peckham Cashzone70 m

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 170 m from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Happy Faces Pre School Limited TN9 2DS Full day care 32 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 170 m
Littleview Day Nursery TN9 2HE Full day care 25 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 330 m
Newton Lang Childcare Tonbridge TN11 0FB Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 390 m
Play 'n Grow Childcare Ltd - Bishop Chavasse TN11 0FB Out-of-school day care 24 Not inspected yet 390 m
Stagecoach Performing Arts Tonbridge TN9 2JP Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 810 m (0.5 miles)
Play 'n Grow Childcare Ltd - Angel Centre TN9 1SF Full day care 61 Not inspected yet 880 m (0.5 miles)
Blooming Olives Day Nursery Limited TN9 1HA Full day care 80 Not inspected yet 920 m (0.6 miles)
Bright Horizons Tonbridge Day Nursery and Preschool TN9 2JB Full day care 70 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Barracudas (Tonbridge) TN9 2JR Out-of-school day care 90 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Tots Teachers Preschool 3 TN9 1EP Sessional day care 32 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 757 childminders and 217 home childcarers (nannies) in Kent. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,960 m²360 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²350 m
Playing fieldRacecourse Spotsground 20 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Farmground Allotments 5,740 m²280 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Postern, a listed building (Grade II*), 860 m (0.5 miles) east. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
The PosternListed building, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) east
The Port Reeve's HouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Tonbridge CastleScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Medieval hall at No 186 High StreetScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Town banksScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
SomerhillRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
MabledonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Railway ShawWood560 m (0.3 miles) east
Alders WoodWood860 m (0.5 miles) east
Vale of KentValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Tinker's IslandIsland1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Quarry HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Barden LakeLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5911
Under 5500

1 of the postcode's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 1 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 2 serious and 8 slight, in which 1 person died and 2 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian; 3 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 18% happened in the dark, and 18% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202231
202320
202452
202510
The most recent 10 of 11
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
22 Feb 2025 11:43 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Dec 2024 07:10 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A26, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
30 Aug 2024 18:04 Slight 1 person: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
28 Jun 2024 08:25 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A26, 50 mph Daylight
1 Mar 2024 08:17 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian A26, 30 mph Wet road
20 Feb 2024 09:05 Slight 1 person A26, 30 mph Daylight
15 Dec 2023 10:07 Slight 1 person A26, 30 mph Daylight
21 Jan 2023 08:15 Slight 1 person A26, 40 mph Daylight
29 Sep 2022 07:16 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
26 Mar 2022 10:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A26, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A26 between A2014 and Vale Rise, with 19,993 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 260 m from the postcode.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A26 A2014 to Vale Rise 19,993 counted 2025 2% +14% since 2015 260 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Tonbridge and Malling: see them on the Tonbridge and Malling page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 406 residents in 134 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age3640
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)24%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented69%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle27%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Woodgate Way.