Headcorn

Headcorn is covered by postcode district TN27. It is in the Maidstone council area, Kent.

Typical price £400,000 Homes sold in Headcorn, last 12 months. ▼ 1.2% on the year before Gigabit broadband 68 of 118 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 16 of 120 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 28 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Headcorn, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Headcorn, by flood risk Of the 120 postcodes in Headcorn that ONS places, 9 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 104 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 5 postcodes at high or medium risk. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Headcorn. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A274 TN27 9AA: not on the flood risk listTN27 9AD: not on the flood risk listTN27 9AE: not on the flood risk listTN27 9AF: not on the flood risk listTN27 9AQ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9AW: not on the flood risk listTN27 9AZ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9BF: not on the flood risk listTN27 9BQ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9BS: not on the flood risk listTN27 9DF: not on the flood risk listTN27 9DG: not on the flood risk listTN27 9DQ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9EF: not on the flood risk listTN27 9EZ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FA: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FB: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FD: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FE: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FH: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FJ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FL: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FN: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FP: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FQ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FR: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FS: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FT: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FU: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FW: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FX: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FY: not on the flood risk listTN27 9FZ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9GA: not on the flood risk listTN27 9GB: not on the flood risk listTN27 9GD: not on the flood risk listTN27 9GE: not on the flood risk listTN27 9GG: not on the flood risk listTN27 9GH: not on the flood risk listTN27 9GN: not on the flood risk listTN27 9HB: not on the flood risk listTN27 9LD: not on the flood risk listTN27 9NE: not on the flood risk listTN27 9NH: not on the flood risk listTN27 9NJ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9NL: not on the flood risk listTN27 9NP: not on the flood risk listTN27 9NR: not on the flood risk listTN27 9NS: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QA: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QD: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QE: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QG: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QH: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QJ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QN: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QP: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QQ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QS: not on the flood risk listTN27 9QW: not on the flood risk listTN27 9RA: not on the flood risk listTN27 9RB: not on the flood risk listTN27 9RE: not on the flood risk listTN27 9RG: not on the flood risk listTN27 9RH: not on the flood risk listTN27 9RJ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SA: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SB: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SD: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SE: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SF: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SG: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SH: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SJ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SN: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SP: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SQ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SR: not on the flood risk listTN27 9ST: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SU: not on the flood risk listTN27 9SW: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TB: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TD: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TF: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TG: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TH: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TJ: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TL: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TN: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TP: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TR: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TS: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TT: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TU: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TW: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TX: not on the flood risk listTN27 9TY: not on the flood risk listTN27 9UA: not on the flood risk listTN27 9UB: not on the flood risk listTN27 9UD: not on the flood risk listTN27 9UE: not on the flood risk listTN27 9UF: not on the flood risk listTN27 9UG: not on the flood risk listTN27 9LY: low flood risk at worstTN27 9QU: low flood risk at worstTN27 9SS: low flood risk at worstTN27 9SX: low flood risk at worstTN27 9TA: low flood risk at worstTN27 9TZ: low flood risk at worstTN27 9NN: medium flood risk at worstTN27 9EQ: high flood riskTN27 9NT: high flood riskTN27 9NU: high flood riskTN27 9QF: high flood riskTN27 9QR: high flood riskTN27 9QT: high flood riskTN27 9QX: high flood riskTN27 9QY: high flood riskTN27 9RD: high flood risk Headcorn 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to TN27 9NT, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk5 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Headcorn, by flood risk Of the 120 postcodes in Headcorn that ONS places, 9 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 104 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 5 postcodes at high or medium risk. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Headcorn. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Headcorn
  • A home or business at high risk: 9
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 6
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 104
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 120 postcodes in Headcorn that ONS places, 9 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 104 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 51.1697, longitude 0.6253. 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.

TN27 9NT5 at high riskTN27 9QT3 at high riskTN27 9EQ2 at high riskTN27 9NU2 at high riskTN27 9QF2 at high riskTN27 9QX1 at high riskTN27 9RD1 at high riskTN27 9QR1 at high riskTN27 9QY1 at high risk

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

TN27 9LU

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. TN27 9NT, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Headcorn?

Homes sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.2% on the 12 months before. At 68 of the 118 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 28 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 16 of its 120 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Sutton Valence Group Practice, 5.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Headcorn, 450 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 Headcorn?

Homes in Headcorn sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 56 sales, down 1.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£400,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£405,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 1.2% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £495,000 25 sales
  • Semi-detached £366,000 17 sales
  • Terraced £330,000 9 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £170,000 5 sales

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

Across the whole TN27 district, Headcorn's main postcode district: a typical £441,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Headcorn: 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 Headcorn?

27 of the 120 postcodes now in use in Headcorn came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 70 homes sold in Headcorn were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TN27 district, 6%.

The newest postcodes

TN27 9GNsince March 2026TN27 9GHsince October 2022TN27 9GGsince September 2022TN27 9FDsince May 2021TN27 9FJsince May 2021TN27 9FLsince May 2021

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 HeadcornAcross the TN27 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 56 (0%) 2 of 163 (1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 1 of 70 (1%) 11 of 173 (6%)

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 Headcorn?

Ofcom reports on 118 of the 120 postcodes in Headcorn. At 68 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit68 of 118
Postcodes where every home can get superfast117 of 118

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 Headcorn at risk of flooding?

16 of the 120 postcodes in Headcorn 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 28 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 16 of 120 postcodes High: 18Medium: 10Low: 29Very low: 3

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 Headcorn?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Headcorn. 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 Headcorn?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Headcorn is Headcorn Rail Station, 450 m away in a straight line.

  • Headcorn Rail Station Railway station 450 mWalk
  • Staplehurst Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
  • Pluckley Rail Station Railway station 8.6 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 Headcorn?

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

Police.uk records 316 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Headcorn 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. 30 September 2025
  2. 24 October 2025
  3. 24 November 2025
  4. 19 December 2025
  5. 14 January 2026
  6. 22 February 2026
  7. 28 March 2026
  8. 37 April 2026
  9. 22 May 2026
  10. 29 June 2026
  11. 32 July 2026
  12. 35 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences112 reports
Anti-social behaviour78 reports
Criminal damage and arson33 reports
Other theft24 reports
Shoplifting20 reports
Public order9 reports
Burglary9 reports
Other crime9 reports

Also: vehicle crime 8, drugs 8, robbery 4, possession of weapons 2.

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 Headcorn?

District, borough or city council
Maidstone
County council
Kent
Parliamentary constituency
Weald of Kent
Police force area
Kent
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Katie Lam (Conservative)

All 120 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

Moving to Headcorn

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Headcorn postcodes

120 postcodes in use in Headcorn, by district:

TN27 postcode district,120 postcodes

That district is in the TN postcode area.

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Places near Headcorn

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Headcorn's £400,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Staplehurst5.2 km, £365,000Sutton Valence5.4 km, £595,000Harrietsham9.0 km, £380,000Marden9.2 km, £475,000Lenham9.6 km, £370,000Loose10.1 km, £452,500Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells10.3 km, £360,000Coxheath11.5 km, £365,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Headcorn

What is it like to live in Headcorn?
Homes sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.2% on the 12 months before. At 68 of the 118 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 28 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 16 of its 120 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Sutton Valence Group Practice, 5.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Headcorn, 450 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 Headcorn?
Headcorn is covered by postcode district TN27, across 120 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Headcorn in?
Headcorn is in the Maidstone council area, and Kent is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Headcorn?
Headcorn is in the Weald of Kent parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Katie Lam (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Headcorn?
Homes in Headcorn sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 56 sales, down 1.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Headcorn?
In Headcorn, primary schools at its postcodes include Headcorn Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Sutton Valence School, 5.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Headcorn have a railway station?
Yes: Headcorn is 450 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Headcorn, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Headcorn?
Ofcom reports on 118 of the 120 postcodes in Headcorn. At 68 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Headcorn at risk of flooding?
16 of the 120 postcodes in Headcorn 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 28 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 Headcorn?
27 of the 120 postcodes now in use in Headcorn came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 70 homes sold in Headcorn were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TN27 district, 6%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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