Station Road Maidstone

95 addresses across 4 postcodes (ME14), about 280 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 24201451.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2001 the median was £315,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Maidstone cost £352,878 in August 2026 (-1.1% on a year); private rents averaged £1,303 a month.
  • Energy: 40 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 14, D: 22, E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 9 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 5 times (1 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Gas: No gas meters are recorded on its postcodes: it looks to be off the mains gas grid.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A229, carries 39,827 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Maidstone costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 42% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Maidstone East, about 20 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Brenchley Gardens, is about 40 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 17 to 21 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 96 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Brewer Street, about 170 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 31% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 545 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 18 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 7 of them fatal or serious; 11 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20011£315,000£315,000£315,000
19951£35,000£35,000£35,000
All 3 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jan 20017 ME14 1QJDetached£315,000
13 Apr 199511B ME14 1QJFlat or maisonette£35,000Leasehold.
30 Sep 2023PRESSPRINT HOUSE ME14 1QJOther£926,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Maidstone

A typical home in Maidstone cost £352,878 in August 2026, 1.1% less than a year before. That is 10% more than five years earlier and 21% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£608,280
Semi-detached£377,944
Terraced£296,023
Flat or maisonette£182,628
Bought by a first-time buyer£292,511

Private renters in Maidstone paid £1,303 a month on average in September 2026, 3% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£922
Two bedrooms£1,199
Three bedrooms£1,468
Four or more bedrooms£1,979

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, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

40 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 39 m². Most common: Flat (38); Maisonette, mid-terrace (2). Built: 2019 (25); 2026 (11); 2021 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (40 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

No gas meters are recorded on the street's postcodes, against 42 electricity meters: it looks to be off the mains gas grid, or almost, with heating from electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
ME14 1QJ224,112 kWh none recorded
ME14 1LJ207,869 kWh none recorded

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is ME14.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Maidstone in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,668£1,946£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,615£4,171£5,005

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (42% of about 2,700 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; 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: yes, Maidstone, Town Centre (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 6.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): The Maidstone Town Centre Primary Shopping Area.
  • Tree preservation orders: 6 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

  • 17/500419: up to 192 homes, completed (20 m)
  • 15/506036: up to 11 homes, permissioned (90 m)
  • 17/501835: up to 27 homes, permissioned (140 m)
  • 15/509762: up to 13 homes, not permissioned (160 m)
  • H1(18): up to 14 homes, not permissioned (230 m)
  • 18/503536: up to 5 homes, permissioned (230 m)
  • 10/2 161: up to 6 homes, not permissioned (340 m)
  • 08/1057: up to 14 homes, not permissioned (390 m)

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 on or by this street. 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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Allington EFW Maidstone 98/1212 Energy from waste (incinerator) 51 MW Operational Dec 2008 2.3 km (1.5 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 1 October 2026 to 5 October 2026: SOUTH EAST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 25 August 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 18 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ME14 1QJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME14 1QNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
ME14 1LJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 17 unlikely
ME14 1QTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

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 street's postcodes.

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

9 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 5 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into A Trib of the River Medway, The River Len, The River Medway, River Len and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Boxley Road Maidstone Cso Southern Water; monitored 74% of the year A Trib of the River Medway 0 0 260 m
Lower Stone Street Maidstone Cso Southern Water; monitored 17% of the year The River Len 1 0 400 m (0.2 miles)
King Street Maidstone Cso Southern Water The River Len 3 1 450 m (0.3 miles)
Padsole Lane Maidstone Cso Southern Water; monitored 9% of the year The River Len 0 0 450 m (0.3 miles)
Barker Road Maidstone Cso Southern Water The River Medway 1 0 500 m (0.3 miles)
Albion Place Maidstone Cso Southern Water; monitored 50% of the year River Len 0 0 550 m (0.3 miles)
Sandling Lane Maidstone Cso Southern Water; monitored 71% of the year River Medway 0 0 560 m (0.3 miles)
Sandling Lane Maidstone Cso Southern Water; monitored 27% of the year River Medway 0 0 560 m (0.3 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 on the street 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.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 street's 96 addresses are between 17 m and 21 m above sea level (20 m on average).

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

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ME14 1LJ5%0%0%0%
ME14 1QJ42%42%42%0%
ME14 1QT0%0%0%0%

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 middle of the street, 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 stationsMaidstone East 1.7 million journeys in 2024–2520 m
Maidstone Barracks 275,000 journeys in 2024–25520 m (0.3 miles)
Maidstone West 561,000 journeys in 2024–25890 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Maidstone East Railway Station30 m
Bus or coach stationChequers Bus Station Maidstone640 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Euro Car Parks290 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN34.7 km (22 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW51.4 km (32 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brewer Street Good Aug 2026170 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ancura Pharmacy80 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gabriels Hill Dental Practice570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalGstt @ Maidstone Hospital Requires improvement Feb 20242.6 km (1.6 miles)
Care homes14 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Aspen House Good Oct 2021630 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationSheerness Police Station570 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines9 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hello Kent80 m

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 middle of the street 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brenchley Gardens 1.6 ha40 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Whatman Park 9.8 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²280 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.3 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,160 m²400 m (0.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Grove House, a listed building (Grade II*), 80 m east. 233 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 16 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grove HouseListed building, Grade II*80 m east
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment CenotaphListed building, Grade II*90 m south-west
Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery (Chillington House)Listed building, Grade II*190 m south
Officers Quarters, Maidstone Former Cavalry BarracksListed building, Grade II*290 m north-west
Len Bridge, Mill StreetScheduled monument680 m (0.4 miles) south
The 'Gatehouse', Palace Gardens, Mill StreetScheduled monument700 m (0.4 miles) south
Tithe barn, Mill StreetScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) south
Mote ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Middle Quarry WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Springfield GroveWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Mill PondLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Cuckoo WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Dove HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Loose ValleyValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) south

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 middle of the street. 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)11.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5990
Under 558796

9 of the street's 96 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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 Maidstone: see them on the Maidstone page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Maidstone Grammar School for GirlsSecondary11–18700 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 62.7 (66.4 in 2025 and 66.3 in 2024); 82.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 12.8% AAB or better; progress average
North Borough Junior SchoolPrimary7–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Brunswick House Primary SchoolPrimary5–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
The Maplesden Noakes SchoolSecondary11–18850 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 36.0 (39.6 in 2025 and 36.7 in 2024); 16.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
St Paul's Infant SchoolPrimary4–7900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection None published
Valley Invicta Primary School At East BoroughPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 22% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Invicta Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 70.8 (70.8 in 2025 and 71.1 in 2024); 92.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B+; 25.9% AAB or better; progress above average
Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
St Michael's Church of England Infant School MaidstonePrimary5–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good None published
Valley Park SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.8 (37.6 in 2025 and 39.2 in 2024); 33.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 4.8% AAB or better; progress below average
Archbishop Courtenay Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Maidstone Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 67.0 (68.4 in 2025 and 66.6 in 2024); 91.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 22.7% AAB or better; progress average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 900 m (0.6 miles); the nearest is 290 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
The Right Tuition Company Maidstone ME14 1ED Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 290 m
Stepping Stones ME14 1UA Full day care 24 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 310 m
TT'S AFTER SCHOOL CLUB ME16 0ST Out-of-school day care 28 Not inspected yet 370 m
art-K Maidstone ME14 1JL Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 400 m (0.2 miles)
Pink Elephants Nursery ME14 2UG Full day care 46 Good (Aug 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 490 m (0.3 miles)
The Nursery at St Peter's Church ME16 0SL Full day care 220 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 670 m (0.4 miles)
Barracudas ME16 0SF Out-of-school day care 220 Not inspected yet 700 m (0.4 miles)
Blue Sky Day Nursery And Pre School ME16 8QL Full day care 36 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 800 m (0.5 miles)
Cece's Rainbowkids Centre ME16 8SF Full day care 129 Not inspected yet 900 m (0.6 miles)
Townsend Montessori @ Maidstone ME15 6NL Full day care 80 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 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 middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Indulgence ME14 1RFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m4 Good22 Sep 2025
Costa Coffee ME14 1QNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
The Society Rooms ME14 1RFPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good4 Jun 2025
London Cash And Carry ME14 1RHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets50 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jan 2026
Mu Mu Nightclub Wine Bar And Restaurant ME14 1RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Greek Taverna Artemis ME14 1RBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good29 Sep 2026
Mexigo ME14 1RBTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Apr 2026
Cafe Delicious ME14 1RGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m3 Generally satisfactory12 Jan 2026
Paydens Ltd ME14 1RHRetailers - other80 m5 Very good9 Sep 2020
Premier Cellar Ltd ME14 1RHRetailers - other80 m5 Very good12 Aug 2013
Thai Palace ME14 1RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m4 Good27 Nov 2024
Namaste Nepalese Cuisine ME14 1RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
Homeland ME14 1RBRetailers - other90 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Kent Express ME14 1RHRetailers - other100 m4 Good12 Aug 2020
KFC ME14 1QXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

545 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences167
Anti-social behaviour104
Shoplifting102
Drugs38
Public order31
Other theft30
Other crime23
Criminal damage and arson18
Burglary8
Theft from the person8
Robbery6
Possession of weapons4
Vehicle crime3
Bicycle theft3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (242); On or near Week Street (117); On or near Prison (49); On or near Station Road (47); On or near St Faith'S Street (42).

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 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

18 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 7 serious and 11 slight, in which 7 people were seriously hurt. 11 involved a pedestrian; 3 involved a cyclist; 3 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 22% happened in the dark, and 39% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202121
202261
202331
202452
202522
The most recent 10 of 18
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
6 Sep 2025 10:54 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
14 May 2025 08:20 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
27 Nov 2024 07:15 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
2 Oct 2024 13:47 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
21 Jun 2024 09:45 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
31 May 2024 13:03 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
11 Jan 2024 17:33 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
11 Nov 2023 18:16 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
6 May 2023 17:30 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
9 Feb 2023 12:40 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 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 A229 between Palace Ave and St Peters St roundabout, with 39,827 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 430 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A20 High Street/Mill Street Junction to A20/A249 Roundabout 2,071 estimated; counted 2024 1% 200 m
A229 A20 to Sandling Road roundabout 38,421 estimated; counted 2022 3% -4% since 2015 280 m
A20 A229 roundabout to A229 Mill Street 1,886 estimated; counted 2022 1% 340 m
A20 A229 Bishops Way to A20 High Street 958 estimated; counted 2019 1% -40% since 2015 340 m
A229 A229 Bishops Way to A249 Knightrider Street 26,909 estimated; counted 2023 2% +1% since 2015 430 m (0.3 miles)
A229 Palace Ave to St Peters St roundabout 39,827 counted 2025 2% -9% since 2015 430 m (0.3 miles)

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.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 636 residents in 345 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 streetEngland
Median age3140
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)31%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented33%17%
Private rented35%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)75%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 5 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.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTH EAST WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 1 October 2026 to 5 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Bonnies Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, ME14 1ED) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Chopstix (restaurant/cafe/canteen, ME14 1RN) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 27 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Bullseye (pub/bar/nightclub, ME14 1SA) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • ME14 1QJ: 83 addresses of 84 in the postcode
  • ME14 1QN: 10 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • ME14 1LJ: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
  • ME14 1QT: 1 address of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Station Road · Sessions House Square · County Road · Woollett Street · Union Street · St Faith's Street · Mckenzie Court · Brewer Street · Camden Street · Staceys Street · Fremlin Walk · Church Street

All the streets in ME14 and across Maidstone.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.