Wateringbury

Wateringbury is covered by postcode district ME18. It is mostly in the Tonbridge and Malling council area: 52 of its 73 postcodes. The others are in Maidstone.

Typical price £380,000 Homes sold in Wateringbury, last 12 months. ▼ 10.2% on the year before Gigabit broadband 43 of 71 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 13 of 73 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 43 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Wateringbury, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Wateringbury, by flood risk Of the 73 postcodes in Wateringbury that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 7 are at medium risk at worst, 3 are at low risk at worst and 60 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 8 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Wateringbury. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. ME18 5BP: not on the flood risk listME18 5BS: not on the flood risk listME18 5DA: not on the flood risk listME18 5DD: not on the flood risk listME18 5DE: not on the flood risk listME18 5DF: not on the flood risk listME18 5DG: not on the flood risk listME18 5DH: not on the flood risk listME18 5DJ: not on the flood risk listME18 5DL: not on the flood risk listME18 5DN: not on the flood risk listME18 5DP: not on the flood risk listME18 5DQ: not on the flood risk listME18 5DR: not on the flood risk listME18 5DT: not on the flood risk listME18 5DU: not on the flood risk listME18 5DW: not on the flood risk listME18 5DZ: not on the flood risk listME18 5EJ: not on the flood risk listME18 5EL: not on the flood risk listME18 5EN: not on the flood risk listME18 5EP: not on the flood risk listME18 5ER: not on the flood risk listME18 5ES: not on the flood risk listME18 5ET: not on the flood risk listME18 5EW: not on the flood risk listME18 5EX: not on the flood risk listME18 5EZ: not on the flood risk listME18 5FA: not on the flood risk listME18 5HA: not on the flood risk listME18 5HS: not on the flood risk listME18 5LA: not on the flood risk listME18 5LE: not on the flood risk listME18 5LF: not on the flood risk listME18 5LG: not on the flood risk listME18 5NH: not on the flood risk listME18 5NJ: not on the flood risk listME18 5NL: not on the flood risk listME18 5NN: not on the flood risk listME18 5NQ: not on the flood risk listME18 5NS: not on the flood risk listME18 5NU: not on the flood risk listME18 5NW: not on the flood risk listME18 5NX: not on the flood risk listME18 5NY: not on the flood risk listME18 5PA: not on the flood risk listME18 5PB: not on the flood risk listME18 5PD: not on the flood risk listME18 5PF: not on the flood risk listME18 5PG: not on the flood risk listME18 5PL: not on the flood risk listME18 5PN: not on the flood risk listME18 5PP: not on the flood risk listME18 5PW: not on the flood risk listME18 5PX: not on the flood risk listME18 5RJ: not on the flood risk listME18 5RP: not on the flood risk listME18 5RS: not on the flood risk listME18 5SS: not on the flood risk listME18 5BT: low flood risk at worstME18 5DX: low flood risk at worstME18 5EA: low flood risk at worstME18 5AB: medium flood risk at worstME18 5DS: medium flood risk at worstME18 5DY: medium flood risk at worstME18 5EH: medium flood risk at worstME18 5GA: medium flood risk at worstME18 5NZ: medium flood risk at worstME18 5PE: medium flood risk at worstME18 5EB: high flood riskME18 5ED: high flood riskME18 5EF: high flood risk Wateringbury 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to ME18 5ED, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk8 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Wateringbury, by flood risk Of the 73 postcodes in Wateringbury that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 7 are at medium risk at worst, 3 are at low risk at worst and 60 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 8 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Wateringbury. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Wateringbury 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to ME18 5ED, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk8 postcodes at high or medium risk
  • A home or business at high risk: 3
  • At medium risk at worst: 7
  • At low risk at worst: 3
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 60
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 73 postcodes in Wateringbury that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 7 are at medium risk at worst, 3 are at low risk at worst and 60 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 51.2525, longitude 0.4201. 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.

ME18 5ED10 at high riskME18 5EF4 at high riskME18 5EB1 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. ME18 5ED, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Wateringbury?

Homes sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 10.2% on the 12 months before. At 43 of the 71 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 43 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 13 of its 73 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Wateringbury, 350 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 Wateringbury?

Homes in Wateringbury sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 32 sales, down 10.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£380,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£423,250
12 months to August 2026
£380,000

▼ down 10.2% on the 12 months before

Detached£512,500 11 sales
Semi-detached£385,000 9 sales
Terraced£341,250 6 sales
Flat or maisonette£164,500 6 sales

Across the whole ME18 district, Wateringbury's main postcode district: a typical £447,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wateringbury: 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 Wateringbury?

1 of the 73 postcodes now in use in Wateringbury came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 26 homes sold in Wateringbury were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME18 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

ME18 5FAsince November 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 WateringburyAcross the ME18 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 32 (0%) 0 of 84 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 26 (0%) 0 of 73 (0%)

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 Wateringbury?

Ofcom reports on 71 of the 73 postcodes in Wateringbury. At 43 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit43 of 71
Postcodes where every home can get superfast69 of 71

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 Wateringbury at risk of flooding?

13 of the 73 postcodes in Wateringbury 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 43 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 13 of 73 postcodes High: 15Medium: 28Low: 47Very low: 2

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 Wateringbury?

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

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wateringbury is Wateringbury Rail Station, 350 m away in a straight line.

  • Wateringbury Rail Station Railway station 350 mWalk
  • Yalding Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
  • East Malling Rail Station Railway station 3.9 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 Wateringbury?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Wateringbury. 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 Wateringbury safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 122 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Wateringbury 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. 17 September 2025
  2. 11 October 2025
  3. 14 November 2025
  4. 9 December 2025
  5. 9 January 2026
  6. 9 February 2026
  7. 10 March 2026
  8. 3 April 2026
  9. 9 May 2026
  10. 6 June 2026
  11. 10 July 2026
  12. 15 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences34 reports
Criminal damage and arson24 reports
Anti-social behaviour16 reports
Vehicle crime13 reports
Other theft10 reports
Drugs10 reports
Public order4 reports
Burglary4 reports

Also: other crime 3, robbery 2, theft from the person 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 Wateringbury?

Councils
Tonbridge and Malling (52) and Maidstone (21)
County council
Kent
Parliamentary constituencies
Tonbridge (52), Weald of Kent (20) and Maidstone and Malling (1)
Police force area
Kent
Region
South East
Country
England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Moving to Wateringbury

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Wateringbury postcodes

73 postcodes in use in Wateringbury, by district:

ME18 postcode district,73 postcodes

That district is in the ME postcode area.

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Places near Wateringbury

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

Kings Hill2.5 km, £512,500Yalding3.2 km, £430,000East Peckham5.0 km, £440,000West Malling5.1 km, £365,000Larkfield5.6 km, £382,000Coxheath5.7 km, £365,000Hadlow6.5 km, £370,000Loose7.4 km, £452,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Wateringbury

What is it like to live in Wateringbury?
Homes sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 10.2% on the 12 months before. At 43 of the 71 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 43 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 13 of its 73 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Wateringbury, 350 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 Wateringbury?
Wateringbury is covered by postcode district ME18, across 73 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Wateringbury?
Homes in Wateringbury sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 32 sales, down 10.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Wateringbury?
In Wateringbury, primary schools at its postcodes include Wateringbury Church of England Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Malling School, 4.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Wateringbury have a railway station?
Yes: Wateringbury is 350 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Wateringbury, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Wateringbury?
Ofcom reports on 71 of the 73 postcodes in Wateringbury. At 43 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Wateringbury at risk of flooding?
13 of the 73 postcodes in Wateringbury 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 43 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 Wateringbury?
1 of the 73 postcodes now in use in Wateringbury came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 26 homes sold in Wateringbury were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME18 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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