Harrietsham

Harrietsham is covered by postcode district ME17. It is in the Maidstone council area, Kent.

Typical price £380,000 Homes sold in Harrietsham, last 12 months. ▼ 6.7% on the year before Gigabit broadband 53 of 104 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 5 of 108 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Harrietsham, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Harrietsham, by flood risk Of the 108 postcodes in Harrietsham that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 103 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 2 postcodes lie beyond the edge and are listed under the map. Places named: Harrietsham. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. M20A20 ME17 1AB: not on the flood risk listME17 1AG: not on the flood risk listME17 1AH: not on the flood risk listME17 1AJ: not on the flood risk listME17 1AL: not on the flood risk listME17 1AP: not on the flood risk listME17 1AQ: not on the flood risk listME17 1AR: not on the flood risk listME17 1AS: not on the flood risk listME17 1AT: not on the flood risk listME17 1AU: not on the flood risk listME17 1AW: not on the flood risk listME17 1AX: not on the flood risk listME17 1AY: not on the flood risk listME17 1AZ: not on the flood risk listME17 1BA: not on the flood risk listME17 1BB: not on the flood risk listME17 1BD: not on the flood risk listME17 1BE: not on the flood risk listME17 1BG: not on the flood risk listME17 1BH: not on the flood risk listME17 1BJ: not on the flood risk listME17 1BL: not on the flood risk listME17 1BN: not on the flood risk listME17 1BP: not on the flood risk listME17 1BS: not on the flood risk listME17 1BT: not on the flood risk listME17 1BW: not on the flood risk listME17 1BX: not on the flood risk listME17 1BY: not on the flood risk listME17 1BZ: not on the flood risk listME17 1DF: not on the flood risk listME17 1DW: not on the flood risk listME17 1EZ: not on the flood risk listME17 1FA: not on the flood risk listME17 1FG: not on the flood risk listME17 1FH: not on the flood risk listME17 1FJ: not on the flood risk listME17 1FL: not on the flood risk listME17 1FN: not on the flood risk listME17 1FP: not on the flood risk listME17 1FR: not on the flood risk listME17 1FU: not on the flood risk listME17 1FX: not on the flood risk listME17 1GD: not on the flood risk listME17 1GE: not on the flood risk listME17 1GF: not on the flood risk listME17 1GJ: not on the flood risk listME17 1GN: not on the flood risk listME17 1GP: not on the flood risk listME17 1GR: not on the flood risk listME17 1GS: not on the flood risk listME17 1GT: not on the flood risk listME17 1GU: not on the flood risk listME17 1GW: not on the flood risk listME17 1GX: not on the flood risk listME17 1GY: not on the flood risk listME17 1HH: not on the flood risk listME17 1HJ: not on the flood risk listME17 1HL: not on the flood risk listME17 1HN: not on the flood risk listME17 1HP: not on the flood risk listME17 1HS: not on the flood risk listME17 1HT: not on the flood risk listME17 1HY: not on the flood risk listME17 1HZ: not on the flood risk listME17 1JA: not on the flood risk listME17 1JD: not on the flood risk listME17 1JE: not on the flood risk listME17 1JG: not on the flood risk listME17 1JH: not on the flood risk listME17 1JJ: not on the flood risk listME17 1JL: not on the flood risk listME17 1JN: not on the flood risk listME17 1JP: not on the flood risk listME17 1JQ: not on the flood risk listME17 1JR: not on the flood risk listME17 1JT: not on the flood risk listME17 1JU: not on the flood risk listME17 1JX: not on the flood risk listME17 1JZ: not on the flood risk listME17 1LA: not on the flood risk listME17 1LB: not on the flood risk listME17 1LD: not on the flood risk listME17 1LE: not on the flood risk listME17 1LF: not on the flood risk listME17 1LY: not on the flood risk listME17 1ND: not on the flood risk listME17 1NG: not on the flood risk listME17 1NW: not on the flood risk listME17 1QW: not on the flood risk listME17 1SZ: not on the flood risk listME17 1US: not on the flood risk listME17 1WG: not on the flood risk listME17 1WH: not on the flood risk listME17 1WJ: not on the flood risk listME17 2DA: not on the flood risk listME17 2DB: not on the flood risk listME17 2DD: not on the flood risk listME17 2QX: not on the flood risk listME17 1JS: low flood risk at worstME17 1LJ: low flood risk at worstME17 1HX: medium flood risk at worstME17 1AD: high flood riskME17 1HU: high flood risk Harrietsham Map of every postcode in Harrietsham, by flood risk Of the 108 postcodes in Harrietsham that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 103 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 2 postcodes lie beyond the edge and are listed under the map. Places named: Harrietsham. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Harrietsham
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 2
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 103

Of the 108 postcodes in Harrietsham that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 103 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 51.2428, longitude 0.6794. 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.

ME17 1HU1 at high riskME17 1AD1 at high risk

2 further out, not drawn

These postcodes lie well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without them to show the rest closer; they are in every count.

ME17 1BTME17 2EL

What is it like to live in Harrietsham?

Homes sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 6.7% on the 12 months before. At 53 of the 104 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 108 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Len Valley Practice, 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Harrietsham, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

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 Harrietsham?

Homes in Harrietsham sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 40 sales, down 6.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£380,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£407,500 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 6.7% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £520,000 14 sales
  • Semi-detached £370,250 18 sales
  • Terraced £335,000 7 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

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

Across the whole ME17 district, Harrietsham's main postcode district: a typical £395,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Harrietsham: 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 Harrietsham?

4 of the 108 postcodes now in use in Harrietsham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 40 homes sold in Harrietsham were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME17 district, 17%.

The newest postcodes

ME17 1WJsince May 2021ME17 1SZsince January 2021ME17 1WHsince February 2020ME17 2UZsince February 2020

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 HarrietshamAcross the ME17 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 40 (0%) 11 of 321 (3%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 40 (0%) 89 of 526 (17%)

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 Harrietsham?

Ofcom reports on 104 of the 108 postcodes in Harrietsham. At 53 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit53 of 104
Postcodes where every home can get superfast91 of 104

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.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

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

Is Harrietsham at risk of flooding?

5 of the 108 postcodes in Harrietsham 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 11 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5 of 108 postcodes High: 2Medium: 9Low: 18

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 Harrietsham?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Harrietsham. 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.

Primary

Secondary

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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 Harrietsham?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Harrietsham is Harrietsham Rail Station, 550 m away in a straight line.

  • Harrietsham Rail Station Railway station 550 mWalk
  • Lenham Rail Station Railway station 2.2 kmCycle
  • Hollingbourne Rail Station Railway station 4.4 kmCycle

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 Harrietsham?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Harrietsham. 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 Harrietsham safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 222 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Harrietsham 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. 19 September 2025
  2. 26 October 2025
  3. 16 November 2025
  4. 18 December 2025
  5. 15 January 2026
  6. 10 February 2026
  7. 9 March 2026
  8. 19 April 2026
  9. 27 May 2026
  10. 14 June 2026
  11. 22 July 2026
  12. 27 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences61 reports
Anti-social behaviour47 reports
Shoplifting32 reports
Other theft25 reports
Criminal damage and arson18 reports
Vehicle crime14 reports
Burglary9 reports
Public order5 reports

Also: theft from the person 3, drugs 3, robbery 2, other crime 2, bicycle theft 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 Harrietsham?

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

All 108 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. See all our data sources

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Harrietsham postcodes

108 postcodes in use in Harrietsham, by district:

ME17 postcode district,108 postcodes

That district is in the ME postcode area.

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Places near Harrietsham

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Harrietsham's £380,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Lenham2.4 km, £370,000Sutton Valence6.8 km, £595,000Bearsted8.0 km, £448,000Charing8.8 km, £421,500Headcorn9.0 km, £400,000Loose10.9 km, £452,500Maidstone11.0 km, £325,000Sittingbourne11.9 km, £290,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Harrietsham

What is it like to live in Harrietsham?
Homes sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 6.7% on the 12 months before. At 53 of the 104 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 108 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Len Valley Practice, 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Harrietsham, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. 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.
What is the postcode for Harrietsham?
Harrietsham is covered by postcode district ME17, across 108 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Harrietsham in?
Harrietsham is in the Maidstone council area, and Kent is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Harrietsham?
Harrietsham is in the Faversham and Mid Kent parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Helen Whately (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Harrietsham?
Homes in Harrietsham sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 40 sales, down 6.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Harrietsham?
In Harrietsham, primary schools at its postcodes include Harrietsham Church of England Primary School and Earley Springs; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Lenham School, 2.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Harrietsham have a railway station?
Yes: Harrietsham is 550 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Harrietsham, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Harrietsham?
Ofcom reports on 104 of the 108 postcodes in Harrietsham. At 53 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Harrietsham at risk of flooding?
5 of the 108 postcodes in Harrietsham 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 11 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Harrietsham?
4 of the 108 postcodes now in use in Harrietsham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 40 homes sold in Harrietsham were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME17 district, 17%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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