Boughton under Blean

Boughton under Blean is covered by postcode district ME13. It is in the Swale council area, Kent.

Every postcode in Boughton under Blean, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Boughton under Blean, by flood risk Of the 59 postcodes in Boughton under Blean that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 56 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Boughton under Blean. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A2 ME13 9AB: not on the flood risk listME13 9AD: not on the flood risk listME13 9AF: not on the flood risk listME13 9AG: not on the flood risk listME13 9AH: not on the flood risk listME13 9AL: not on the flood risk listME13 9AN: not on the flood risk listME13 9AP: not on the flood risk listME13 9AR: not on the flood risk listME13 9AS: not on the flood risk listME13 9AW: not on the flood risk listME13 9AX: not on the flood risk listME13 9AY: not on the flood risk listME13 9AZ: not on the flood risk listME13 9BA: not on the flood risk listME13 9BB: not on the flood risk listME13 9BD: not on the flood risk listME13 9BE: not on the flood risk listME13 9BF: not on the flood risk listME13 9BG: not on the flood risk listME13 9BL: not on the flood risk listME13 9BN: not on the flood risk listME13 9BQ: not on the flood risk listME13 9ET: not on the flood risk listME13 9FB: not on the flood risk listME13 9FJ: not on the flood risk listME13 9FX: not on the flood risk listME13 9GA: not on the flood risk listME13 9JF: not on the flood risk listME13 9LD: not on the flood risk listME13 9NY: not on the flood risk listME13 9NZ: not on the flood risk listME13 9SH: not on the flood risk listME13 9SJ: not on the flood risk listME13 9SL: not on the flood risk listME13 9SS: not on the flood risk listME13 9ST: not on the flood risk listME13 9SU: not on the flood risk listME13 9SX: not on the flood risk listME13 9SY: not on the flood risk listME13 9SZ: not on the flood risk listME13 9TA: not on the flood risk listME13 9TB: not on the flood risk listME13 9TD: not on the flood risk listME13 9TE: not on the flood risk listME13 9TF: not on the flood risk listME13 9TG: not on the flood risk listME13 9TJ: not on the flood risk listME13 9TL: not on the flood risk listME13 9TN: not on the flood risk listME13 9TP: not on the flood risk listME13 9TQ: not on the flood risk listME13 9TR: not on the flood risk listME13 9TW: not on the flood risk listME13 9UL: not on the flood risk listME13 9BJ: low flood risk at worstME13 9AA: high flood riskME13 9BH: high flood risk Boughton under Blean Map of every postcode in Boughton under Blean, by flood risk Of the 59 postcodes in Boughton under Blean that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 56 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Boughton under Blean. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A2 Boughton under Blean
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 56

Of the 59 postcodes in Boughton under Blean that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 56 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.2951, longitude 0.9567. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

What is it like to live in Boughton under Blean?

Homes sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. At 22 of the 58 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 59 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Faversham Medical Group, 4.9 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Selling, 2.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Boughton under Blean?

Homes in Boughton under Blean sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 34 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £325,000 from 37 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£310,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£325,000 12 months to August 2025
  • Detached £490,000 9 sales
  • Semi-detached £310,000 17 sales
  • Terraced £275,000 6 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole ME13 district, Boughton under Blean's main postcode district: a typical £342,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Boughton under Blean: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Boughton under Blean?

2 of the 59 postcodes now in use in Boughton under Blean came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 37 homes sold in Boughton under Blean were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME13 district, 12%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Boughton under BleanAcross the ME13 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 34 (0%) 18 of 384 (5%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 37 (0%) 66 of 530 (12%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Boughton under Blean?

Ofcom reports on 58 of the 59 postcodes in Boughton under Blean. At 22 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit22 of 58
Postcodes where every home can get superfast56 of 58

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Boughton under Blean at risk of flooding?

3 of the 59 postcodes in Boughton under Blean have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 4 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 3 of 59 postcodes High: 4Low: 1

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Boughton under Blean?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Boughton under Blean. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Boughton under Blean?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Boughton under Blean is Selling Rail Station, 2.3 km away in a straight line.

  • Selling Rail Station Railway station 2.3 kmCycle
  • Faversham Rail Station Railway station 4.9 kmCycle
  • Chilham Rail Station Railway station 5.8 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Boughton under Blean?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Boughton under Blean. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Boughton under Blean safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 102 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Boughton under Blean over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 7 September 2025
  2. 12 October 2025
  3. 13 November 2025
  4. 5 December 2025
  5. 13 January 2026
  6. 9 February 2026
  7. 7 March 2026
  8. 8 April 2026
  9. 5 May 2026
  10. 7 June 2026
  11. 6 July 2026
  12. 10 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences47 reports
Vehicle crime12 reports
Anti-social behaviour10 reports
Criminal damage and arson10 reports
Other theft8 reports
Other crime6 reports
Burglary3 reports
Public order2 reports

Also: shoplifting 1, bicycle theft 1, drugs 1, possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Boughton under Blean?

District, borough or city council
Swale
County council
Kent
Parliamentary constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent
Police force area
Kent
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Helen Whately (Conservative)

All 59 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026. See all our data sources

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Boughton under Blean postcodes

59 postcodes in use in Boughton under Blean, by district:

That district is in the ME postcode area.

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Places near Boughton under Blean

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Boughton under Blean's £310,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Quick answers about Boughton under Blean

What is the postcode for Boughton under Blean?
Postcode district ME13, with 59 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Boughton under Blean in?
Swale, with Kent as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Boughton under Blean?
Helen Whately (Conservative), for Faversham and Mid Kent. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Boughton under Blean?
A typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, from 34 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Boughton under Blean?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Boughton-under-Blean and Dunkirk Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, 4.9 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Boughton under Blean have a railway station?
The nearest is Selling station, 2.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Boughton under Blean?
Ofcom reports on 58 of the 59 postcodes in Boughton under Blean. At 22 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Boughton under Blean at risk of flooding?
3 of the 59 postcodes in Boughton under Blean have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 4 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Boughton under Blean?
2 of the 59 postcodes now in use in Boughton under Blean came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 37 homes sold in Boughton under Blean were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME13 district, 12%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

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