What's the median rent in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

The median monthly rent across Kings Hill & Wateringbury is £1,467.

How well-connected is Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

Transport score: — out of 100. Combines walking time to the nearest rail station, walking time to the nearest metro stop, and public-transport time to clusters with 5,000+ jobs. The nearest rail station is roughly 33 minutes' walk.

What schools are near Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

There are 3 schools within 2 km of Kings Hill & Wateringbury, of which 67% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 613 m away.

What is the council tax band in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

The most common council tax band in Kings Hill & Wateringbury is G, with the typical Band D annual charge around £3,391. Council tax is set by Tonbridge and Malling council and applies to every property in the area.

How long is the commute from Kings Hill & Wateringbury to London?

By the fastest direct train, the journey from Kings Hill & Wateringbury to central London is approximately 71 minutes. This is the fastest no-change rail journey from the local area centroid; door-to-door times will vary with walking time to the station.

Is gigabit broadband available in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

100% of premises in Kings Hill & Wateringbury are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.

What is the deprivation rank of Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

Kings Hill & Wateringbury sits in IMD decile 8 of 10, where 1 is the most deprived 10% of local areas nationally and 10 is the least deprived. The Index of Multiple Deprivation combines income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers and environment.

What's the tenure mix in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

79% of households in Kings Hill & Wateringbury are owner-occupied. The remainder is split between private renting and social housing — see the Demographics section for the full breakdown from Census 2021.

What is the average property price in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

The average property price across Tonbridge and Malling (the local authority covering Kings Hill & Wateringbury) is approximately £403,756, per HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Per-local area prices vary; see the cost-of-living section for medians by property type.

Is Kings Hill & Wateringbury a commuter town or workplace hub?

Commuter town — most working residents travel out for work. (0.50 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £35,106.)

Which local areas are part of Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

Kings Hill & Wateringbury contains 7 local areas: Tonbridge and Malling 007G, Tonbridge and Malling 007F, Tonbridge and Malling 007H, Tonbridge and Malling 007E, Tonbridge and Malling 007D…

What is the average rent in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

The estimated median monthly rent in Kings Hill & Wateringbury is £1,467. This is derived from the council-area ONS rental figure scaled by the local sale-price gradient — see the Cost section for the breakdown by bedroom count and the affordability ratio against local salaries.

Is Kings Hill & Wateringbury a safe place to live?

Kings Hill & Wateringbury has a safety score of 82/100. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crime per 1,000 residents, inverted so 100 is the safest 1% of England + Wales. The Safety section below shows the breakdown by category.

What schools are near Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

67% of schools within 2 km of Kings Hill & Wateringbury are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.

How long is the commute from Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

Public-transport commute time from Kings Hill & Wateringbury to central London is approximately 71 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.

How is Kings Hill & Wateringbury different from the rest of Tonbridge and Malling?

Kings Hill & Wateringbury contains 7 sub-areas. The "Sub-areas" section below lets you drill into each one individually — they often vary by 20%+ on rent and demographics within the same neighbourhood.

Where does Kings Hill & Wateringbury rank in Tonbridge and Malling?

Kings Hill & Wateringbury scores 52/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Tonbridge and Malling, see the Cities table on the Tonbridge and Malling page.

Neighbourhood · Tonbridge and Malling · South East

Kings Hill & Wateringbury

Tonbridge and Malling 007 · 7 sub-areas · 13,130 residents

Updated May 2026

Verdict

How are these scored? →

Best for Families (83/100)Watch-out: Solo renters (47/100)Liveability 52/100 · Above median

Kings Hill & Wateringbury is a mid-density neighbourhood of Tonbridge and Malling in the South East region. It sits between busier and quieter parts of the local authority and isn't dominated by a single use — there's a mix of workplaces, housing and local services. The demographic profile leans family-aged, with a clear share of households with school-age children; most homes are owner-occupied, so turnover is low and many residents have been here a long time.

Median rent

£1,467+4.1%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Crime / 1k / yr

48.1

Top quartile

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Best hub commute

71 min

Direct to London

Network Rail TTIS (CIF) · Apr 2026

Good schools 2 km

67%

3 schools within 2 km

Ofsted (spatial) · Feb 2026

Liveability

52/100

Above median

Population

13,130

7 sub-areas

ONS LSOA mid-2024 estimates · 2024

Overview

What's it like to live in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

A snapshot of Kings Hill & Wateringbury

Greenspace is reachable but isn't on the immediate doorstep — most residents walk a few blocks to reach a park; The streets feel safe by national standards — police-recorded crime is well below the country-wide median; rents are roughly in line with the national norm, at around £1,467 a month for a typical home; gigabit broadband is effectively universal.

Generated from the latest May 2026 data · refreshed automatically

Figures are aggregated across 7 sub-areas — population-weighted means for rates, sums for counts. Sources cited beneath each section.

Kings Hill & Wateringbury in Tonbridge and Malling

Cost

Cost of living

What does it cost to live here?

Rent runs at £1,467 a month — 33% above the national median. Council tax is most commonly Band G.

Median rentCouncil area

£1,467/mo

Up 4.1% on last year

+£367 vs nat'l avg

Total monthly baseline

£1,750/mo

Rent + council tax + indicative utilities

Council tax — modal bandCouncil area

Around £3,391/yr · £283/mo

Years to save 10% deposit

7.5 yr

Assumes saving 20% of gross salary

+50% vs nat'l avg

Rent — whole property and per room (sharing)2-bed: £1,313/mo · £657/room

By bedroom count

1 bedroom£1,016/mosolo only

2 bedrooms£1,313/mo£657/mo per room shared

3 bedrooms£1,600/mo£533/mo per room shared

4 bedrooms£2,451/mo£613/mo per room shared

By property type

Flat£1,202/mo

Terraced house£1,405/mo

Semi-detached£1,567/mo

Detached house£2,168/mo

Can you afford to live here?Rent as a share of take-home, four common living arrangements

Renting alone

Whole property, on the local median salary

61%

of take-home

£1,467/mo per person · take-home £2,400/moA stretch

Sharing a 2-bed

Half a 2-bed flat, on the local median salary

27%

of take-home

£657/mo per person · take-home £2,400/moComfortable

Sharing a 3-bed

One room in a 3-bed flat-share

22%

of take-home

£533/mo per person · take-home £2,400/moComfortable

Couple, two incomes

Whole property split between two earners on the local median salary

31%

of take-home

£734/mo per person · take-home £2,400/moTight but workable

Take-home is calculated from the median resident salary using UK 2024–25 income-tax + NI bands. Higher earners and dual-income households see lower percentages than the table shows; the median figures are a market benchmark, not a personal estimate.

Buying — affordability detail~£2,789/mo on a 25-year mortgage at 5%

Median sale price (Land Registry)£530,000

Average price (HPI, smoother)Council area£403,756-0.8% YoY

Estimated monthly mortgage£2,789/mo

Gross rental yield (BTL)3.0%

Years to save 10% deposit7.5 years

Bills — council tax, energy, fuel povertyCouncil tax (Band D, all-in): £2,472/yr

Council tax — Band D (incl. precepts)Council area£2,472/yr

Council tax — band-mix-weighted (typical home)Council area£3,391/yr

EPC median rating—

Homes rated A or B10%

Households in fuel poverty3.7%

Source: ONS PIPR (rent), HM Land Registry / HMLR HPI (sale prices), VOA + MHCLG (council tax), MHCLG EPC bulk download, DESNZ LILEE (fuel poverty).

Safety

How safe is Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

Safety scores 82/100 against the national distribution, with police-recorded crime running 2.1× safer than the national average (48.1 per 1,000 residents per year).

Crime / 1k / yr

48.1

recorded incidents per 1,000 residents · 6 / month

Safety scoreHow? →

82/100

Higher is safer (national percentile)

Deprivation decile

8/10

1 = most deprived nationally · 10 = least

How crime is measured

What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.

Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.

Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.

Crime by category, per 1,000 residents per yearBar lengths show share of total recorded crime.

Violent & sexual offences

14.4 /1k

Anti-social behaviour

12.2 /1k

Public order

1.5 /1k

Vehicle crime

2.7 /1k

Criminal damage & arson

4.6 /1k

Burglary

1.3 /1k

Other theft

2.8 /1k

Shoplifting

4.2 /1k

Drugs

1.9 /1k

Theft from the person

0.3 /1k

Possession of weapons

0.9 /1k

Robbery

1.0 /1k

Bicycle theft

1.2 /1k

Source: data.police.uk monthly counts (12-month rolling, normalised by ONS mid-year population). Greater Manchester values use IMD 2019 crime-domain proxy.

Transport

Getting around Kings Hill & Wateringbury

Moderate transport links — 49/100; nearest rail station is West Malling at around 2601 m; 17 bus stops within five minutes' walk; London is reachable in 71 minutes by direct train.

Transport scoreHow? →

49/100

Below median

Best hub commute

71 min

Direct to London

WFH share

44%

Census 2021 — work mostly from home

Nearest National Rail

West Malling

2.6 km walk · 71 min to London

Nearest tube / metro / tram

Out of metro reach

Nearest metro is more than 5 km away.

Commute by train to major UK hubsFastest: London in 71 min

London

71 min

Manchesterapprox

229 min

Birminghamapprox

179 min

Leedsapprox

231 min

Liverpoolapprox

239 min

Bristolapprox

188 min

Sheffieldapprox

220 min

Edinburghapprox

345 min

Glasgowapprox

374 min

Cardiffapprox

209 min

Walking time from the LSOA centroid to the nearest station, plus the fastest direct train from there. Routes that require a change of train are marked “approx” (haversine fallback).

How residents commute (Census 2021)44% work from home

Drive48%Public transport4%Walk / cycle4%Work from home44%

Method of travel to work for residents in employment, Census 2021 (TS061).

Broadband — gigabit available (1,000 Mbps) to most homesTop speed available: 1,000 Mbps · effectively universal

Top advertised speedCouncil area1,000 Mbps (gigabit)

Gigabit-ready (1,000 Mbps)Council area100% of premises

Ultrafast (≥300 Mbps)Council area100% of premises

Below USO (under 10 Mbps)Council area0.0% of premises

Outdoor 5G coverageCouncil area98%

Coverage from Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Top speeds reflect what's available to buy at the address; actual experienced speeds depend on the chosen package and provider.

Source: National Rail TTIS timetable (direct journey times), TfL Open Data + OSM (metros), Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, ONS Census 2021 (TS061).

Schools

Schools near Kings Hill & Wateringbury

3 schools within a 2 km radius; around 67% rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest Outstanding school, Kings Hill School Primary and Nursery, is around 491 m away.

School scoreHow? →

92/100

Best 10%

Schools within 2 km

2 rated Good or Outstanding

% Good or Outstanding

67%

Of all schools within 2 km

−3.3 pp vs nat'l avg

Nearest Outstanding school

Kings Hill School Primary and Nursery

491 m from the centroid

Closest schools5 closest within ~5 km of the centroid

Name	Phase	Rating	Distance
Kings Hill School Primary and Nursery	Community School	Outstanding	491 m
The Discovery School	Community School	Outstanding	1.5 km
West Malling Church of England Primary School and McGinty Speech and Language Srp	Academy Converter	Good	3.1 km
The Malling School	Foundation School	Good	3.7 km
Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary Academy	Academy Converter	Good	4.4 km

Source: Ofsted school inspection ratings (latest inspection per school), spatially joined to the local area centroid via PostGIS.

Daily life

What's actually around Kings Hill & Wateringbury?

OpenStreetMap counts of the things people use day-to-day — pubs, restaurants, parks, cinemas, supermarkets — within walking distance of the centroid.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Counts derived via the Overpass API and refreshed monthly.

Eat & drink

Pubs0≤ 500 m
Bars0≤ 500 m
Restaurants2≤ 500 m
Cafés0≤ 500 m
Cuisine variety1≤ 1 km

Going out

Cinemas0≤ 2 km
Theatres0≤ 2 km
Museums0≤ 2 km
Galleries0≤ 2 km
Nightclubs0≤ 1 km

Practical & family

Supermarkets0≤ 500 m
Libraries0≤ 500 m
Parks1≤ 500 m
Playgrounds1≤ 500 m
Gyms0≤ 1 km

Getting around

Bus stops (close)17≤ 500 m
Bus stops (wider)17≤ 1 km
Rail stations0≤ 500 m
Tube entrances0≤ 500 m
Tram stops0≤ 500 m

Who it suits

Is Kings Hill & Wateringbury right for you?

Six persona fit scores from 0–100 — each built from the metrics that group actually optimises for. Click through to the matching ranked list for the wider region.

Families

83/100

Great fit

Schools rate reasonably (67% Good+ within 2 km), owner-occupation is high, and safety scores above the median.

See schools ranking →

Young professionals

62/100

Good fit

Transport scores 49/100 and gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

See transport ranking →

Couples

54/100

Mixed

Rent, safety, or liveability falls below what most couples prioritise — worth comparing against nearby neighbourhoods.

See affordability ranking →

Retirees

64/100

Good fit

Healthcare is close (GP ~715 m, hospital ~5.7 km), greenspace is walkable, and 16% of residents are 65+ — an established peer group.

See safety ranking →

Investors / BTL

52/100

Mixed

Yield, growth, or rental demand are weak relative to peers — better-fitting BTL areas exist nearby.

See earnings ranking →

Solo renters

47/100

Mixed

Rental stock or transit access fall short — easier neighbourhoods exist for solo renters who need flexibility.

See transport ranking →

How these ratings are built

Each persona has its own scoring model. We pick the metrics that group actually optimises for, then weight and curve them so realistic trade-offs are reflected — a great score in one factor can't fully paper over a poor score in another. Weights sum to 100 before any synergy bonuses.

Families

Families consistently prioritise schooling and a safe, settled neighbourhood, so those two factors carry the most weight and use a convex curve — mediocre values are penalised more than a simple average would suggest. A bonus is applied where good schools and low crime coincide.

Good+ schools within 2 km28%
Crime / safety score22%
Households with children15%
Greenspace proximity15%
Owner-occupation rate10%
Family-age population10%

Young professionals

Young professionals optimise for commute, connectivity and being around peers. Transport gets the largest single weight; broadband uses a concave curve so any decent gigabit coverage counts, and a bonus applies in well-connected, graduate-heavy areas (the classic urban knowledge-hub signal).

Transport / PTAL score27%
18–34 population share22%
Gigabit broadband coverage18%
Degree-educated adults14%
Crime / safety score12%
Private-rental availability7%

Couples

Couples without children weight liveability and day-to-day quality highest. Rent is on a sigmoid curve with a steep cliff between £800 and £1,400/month, reflecting how affordability flips from comfortable to stretched across that range. A bonus applies where the area is both safe and walkable.

Liveability composite25%
Crime / safety score22%
Transport / PTAL score18%
Median rent affordability17%
EPC energy efficiency10%
25–49 population share8%

Retirees

Retirees prioritise healthcare proximity, walkable greenspace and a settled neighbourhood with peers in the same life stage. GP and hospital distance are the largest weights — both use exponential drop-offs because needing care 5 km away is much worse than 1 km away, regardless of how many other amenities are nearby.

GP proximity22%
Hospital proximity18%
Crime / safety score18%
Greenspace proximity14%
Over-65 population share10%
Single-floor accommodation10%
Owner-occupation rate8%

Investors / BTL

Buy-to-let investors weight pure financial signals: yield, capital growth, tenant demand, supply pipeline and area job-growth. Crime and amenities only matter as far as they protect the tenant pool. Yield uses a sigmoid that rewards the realistic 4–7% band; pipeline penalises areas with heavy new-build supply that will pressure future rents.

Gross rental yield32%
House-price growth (HPI YoY)20%
Tenant demand18%
5-year jobs growth12%
Supply pipeline (inverse)10%
Safety score8%

Solo renters

Solo renters and students optimise for flexibility — depth of private-rental supply, peers in the same life stage and frictionless transit. Cost matters but the curve is gentler than for couples (no shared income). A nearby Tube/metro/rail station is heavily weighted because cars are usually off the table for this group.

Private-rental availability22%
Single-person households18%
Transit proximity16%
Median rent affordability14%
18–34 population share12%
Gigabit broadband coverage10%
Crime / safety score8%

Demographics

Who lives here?

Census 2021 snapshot: family-aged profile (26% under 18), high owner-occupation (79%).

Age profile

Under 1826%18–3415%35–4920%50–6425%65+16%

Tenure

Owned79%Private rent14%Social rent7%

Households

One person19%Couple with children33%Lone parent11%Other4%

Property types

Flat8%Terraced16%Semi-detached23%Detached49%

Ethnic mix and country of birthDiversity index: 13/100

Ethnic group

White93%Asian3%Black2%Mixed2%Other1%

Country of birth

UK-born91%Born outside UK9%

Religion

Christian50%Muslim1%No religion40%Other2%

Education and health38% degree-educated

Degree-educated (16+)37.7%+4.2 pp vs nat'l

No qualifications10.8%

Self-rated good or very good health90.8%

Self-rated bad or very bad health2.0%

Disabled (Equality Act)10.5%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (TS001 / TS003 / TS004 / TS021 / TS030 / TS037 / TS038 / TS044 / TS061 / TS066 / TS067).

Employment

Work and income

primarily residential — most working residents commute out (0.50 jobs per resident); median resident salary £35,106/year; 2.5% on the DWP claimant count.

Median resident salaryCouncil area

£35,106/yr

Workplace earnings of people who live here

Unemployment rate (ILO)

3.3%

ONS ILO method — 67% economically active (Census 2021)

Jobs in the council areaCouncil area

73,000

0.50 jobs per working-age resident

Working status of 16+ residents (Census 2021)ILO unemployment 3.3% · 67% economically active · 32% inactive

ILO unemployment rate: 3.3% — This uses the same methodology as the ONS Labour Force Survey: unemployment is expressed as a share of the economically active population (employed + job-seeking only), not all 16+ residents. Retirees, students, full-time carers and others who are “inactive” are excluded from the denominator, giving a like-for-like figure to the national headline rate.

Employed64%Unemployed2%Inactive32%

Census 2021 TS066. The three bars above share a denominator of all residents aged 16+ and always sum to 100%. "Inactive" covers students, retirees, full-time carers, the long-term sick and anyone not currently seeking work — which is why the raw employed% figure is lower than the LFS employment rate. The ILO unemployment rate above strips out inactive residents and matches the standard definition used in national statistics.

DWP claimant count: 2.5% of working-age (16-64) residents claim Universal Credit while seeking work or Jobseeker's Allowance. This is the live monthly unemployment proxy and is not directly comparable to the Census figures above — it counts a narrower group on a different denominator, but it's the most up-to-date local indicator.

Local job mix (BRES sectors, SIC 2007)Top sector: Retail & hospitality

Health & social

7.1%

Retail & hospitality

24.7%

Education

7.8%

Manufacturing

4.9%

Professional

6.7%

Construction

8.5%

Tech & ICT

3.4%

Finance

2.4%

Net commute flow: +65,351 jobs vs. working-age residents. More jobs than workers — net commuter inflow.

Source: ONS ASHE (resident salary), ONS Census 2021 TS066 (economic activity), ONS BRES NM_189_1 (jobs by sector), DWP claimant count.

Inside this neighbourhood

Sub-areas and postcodes in Kings Hill & Wateringbury

7 sub-areas and 200+ postcodes. Tap any to drill in — hover previews on desktop.

Sub-area	Median rent	Liveability	Safety	Transport
Tonbridge and Malling 007G	£1,467	73	97	54	View →
Tonbridge and Malling 007F	£1,467	52	81	49	View →
Tonbridge and Malling 007H	£1,467	62	100	32	View →
Tonbridge and Malling 007E	£1,467	35	66	59	View →
Tonbridge and Malling 007D	£1,467	69	88	78	View →
Tonbridge and Malling 007A	£1,467	2	80	11	View →
Tonbridge and Malling 007C	£1,467	44	82	48	View →

Postcodes covered

In Tonbridge and Malling 007A

ME18 5AA ME18 5GS ME18 5JB ME18 5JD ME18 5JE ME18 5JG ME18 5JH ME18 5JJ ME18 5JL ME18 5JN ME18 5JP ME18 5JQ ME18 5JR ME18 5JS ME18 5JT ME18 5JU ME18 5JW ME18 5JY ME18 5JZ ME18 5LP ME18 5LQ ME18 5LR ME18 5LS ME18 5LT ME18 5LU ME18 5LY ME18 5LZ ME18 5NA ME18 5NB ME18 5ND ME18 5NE ME18 5NF ME18 5NG ME18 5PZ ME18 5QA ME18 5QB ME18 5QD ME18 5QE ME18 5QF ME18 5QG ME18 5QH ME18 5QJ ME18 5QL ME18 5QN ME18 5QP ME18 5QQ ME18 5QR ME18 5QS ME18 5QT ME18 5QU ME18 5QW ME18 5QX ME18 5QY ME18 5QZ ME18 5TD

In Tonbridge and Malling 007D

ME18 5BD ME18 5BE ME18 5BG ME18 5BJ ME18 5BN ME18 5BP ME18 5BQ ME18 5BS ME18 5DA ME18 5DD ME18 5DE ME18 5DF ME18 5DG ME18 5DH ME18 5DJ ME18 5DL ME18 5DN ME18 5DP ME18 5DQ ME18 5DR ME18 5DS ME18 5DT ME18 5DU ME18 5DW ME18 5DX ME18 5DY ME18 5DZ ME18 5EA ME18 5EB ME18 5FA ME18 5HX ME18 5HY ME18 5HZ ME18 5JA ME18 5LA ME18 5LB ME18 5LD ME18 5LF ME18 5LH ME18 5LJ ME18 5LL ME18 5LN ME18 5LW ME18 5NJ ME18 5NL ME18 5NN ME18 5NQ ME18 5NS ME18 5NU ME18 5NW ME18 5NX ME18 5NY ME18 5NZ ME18 5PA ME18 5PB ME18 5PD ME18 5PE ME18 5PF ME18 5PG ME18 5PH ME18 5PJ ME18 5PL ME18 5PN ME18 5PP ME18 5PQ ME18 5PR ME18 5PS ME18 5PT ME18 5PU ME18 5PW ME18 5PX ME18 5RJ ME18 5RP ME18 5RS ME18 5SS ME18 5XB

In Tonbridge and Malling 007E

ME19 4AB ME19 4AE ME19 4AG ME19 4AH ME19 4AJ ME19 4AL ME19 4AN ME19 4AQ ME19 4AR ME19 4AW ME19 4BB ME19 4BF ME19 4BJ ME19 4BL ME19 4BP ME19 4BX ME19 4BY ME19 4DD ME19 4DE ME19 4DF ME19 4DG ME19 4DN ME19 4EB ME19 4ER ME19 4EU ME19 4FA ME19 4FB ME19 4FD ME19 4FE

In Tonbridge and Malling 007F

ME19 4AS ME19 4AT ME19 4AU ME19 4BG ME19 4BN ME19 4BS ME19 4DA ME19 4DJ ME19 4DS ME19 4EA ME19 4EF ME19 4EL ME19 4EP ME19 4ES ME19 4ET ME19 4EW ME19 4EZ

In Tonbridge and Malling 007G

ME19 4BA ME19 4BQ ME19 4BU ME19 4BZ ME19 4DH ME19 4DL ME19 4EH ME19 4EJ ME19 4EN ME19 4FF

In Tonbridge and Malling 007H

ME19 4BD ME19 4DT ME19 4EG ME19 4EQ ME19 4FH ME19 4FJ ME19 4FQ

In Tonbridge and Malling 007C

ME19 4BE ME19 4DX ME19 4FL ME19 4FN ME19 4FP ME19 4FR

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FAQ

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What's the median rent in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: The median monthly rent across Kings Hill & Wateringbury is £1,467.
How safe is Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: Kings Hill & Wateringbury has a safety score of — out of 100, where higher is safer. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted.
How well-connected is Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: Transport score: — out of 100. Combines walking time to the nearest rail station, walking time to the nearest metro stop, and public-transport time to clusters with 5,000+ jobs. The nearest rail station is roughly 33 minutes' walk.
What schools are near Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: There are 3 schools within 2 km of Kings Hill & Wateringbury, of which 67% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 613 m away.
What is the council tax band in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: The most common council tax band in Kings Hill & Wateringbury is G, with the typical Band D annual charge around £3,391. Council tax is set by Tonbridge and Malling council and applies to every property in the area.
How long is the commute from Kings Hill & Wateringbury to London?: By the fastest direct train, the journey from Kings Hill & Wateringbury to central London is approximately 71 minutes. This is the fastest no-change rail journey from the local area centroid; door-to-door times will vary with walking time to the station.
Is gigabit broadband available in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: 100% of premises in Kings Hill & Wateringbury are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.
What is the deprivation rank of Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: Kings Hill & Wateringbury sits in IMD decile 8 of 10, where 1 is the most deprived 10% of local areas nationally and 10 is the least deprived. The Index of Multiple Deprivation combines income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers and environment.
What's the tenure mix in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: 79% of households in Kings Hill & Wateringbury are owner-occupied. The remainder is split between private renting and social housing — see the Demographics section for the full breakdown from Census 2021.
What is the average property price in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: The average property price across Tonbridge and Malling (the local authority covering Kings Hill & Wateringbury) is approximately £403,756, per HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Per-local area prices vary; see the cost-of-living section for medians by property type.
Is Kings Hill & Wateringbury a commuter town or workplace hub?: Commuter town — most working residents travel out for work. (0.50 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £35,106.)
Which local areas are part of Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: Kings Hill & Wateringbury contains 7 local areas: Tonbridge and Malling 007G, Tonbridge and Malling 007F, Tonbridge and Malling 007H, Tonbridge and Malling 007E, Tonbridge and Malling 007D…

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What is the average rent in Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: The estimated median monthly rent in Kings Hill & Wateringbury is £1,467. This is derived from the council-area ONS rental figure scaled by the local sale-price gradient — see the Cost section for the breakdown by bedroom count and the affordability ratio against local salaries.
Is Kings Hill & Wateringbury a safe place to live?: Kings Hill & Wateringbury has a safety score of 82/100. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crime per 1,000 residents, inverted so 100 is the safest 1% of England + Wales. The Safety section below shows the breakdown by category.
What schools are near Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: 67% of schools within 2 km of Kings Hill & Wateringbury are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.
How long is the commute from Kings Hill & Wateringbury?: Public-transport commute time from Kings Hill & Wateringbury to central London is approximately 71 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.
How is Kings Hill & Wateringbury different from the rest of Tonbridge and Malling?: Kings Hill & Wateringbury contains 7 sub-areas. The "Sub-areas" section below lets you drill into each one individually — they often vary by 20%+ on rent and demographics within the same neighbourhood.
Where does Kings Hill & Wateringbury rank in Tonbridge and Malling?: Kings Hill & Wateringbury scores 52/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Tonbridge and Malling, see the Cities table on the Tonbridge and Malling page.

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