East Farleigh
Village · 546 residents
58Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 22, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 34, below the typical 60
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Everyday life
The area
Around East Farleigh
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is East Farleigh a good place to live?
East Farleigh scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is safety (69).
It scores lowest on health (22) and food & drink (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for East Farleigh in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of East Farleigh
East Farleigh reads as stone bridges and orchard land rather than a high street — a small settlement along the Medway where semi-detached and detached houses sit on quiet lanes and the pub, not a parade of shops, is the social hub. With a population that barely tips 280 and a median age of 45, this is a place of settled households rather than churn, and it feels that way the moment you're off the main road.
The practical picture is dominated by one thing: a working rail station right in the village, which is a rare asset for a place this size and explains the "A" grade for transport even though the wider connectivity and environment scores sit at a more ordinary B. That station is what makes the commute plausible for someone who wants Maidstone's job market or a London train without living somewhere denser. Housing here is overwhelmingly freehold semi-detached and detached stock, and the numbers say something specific: a median sale price of £424,000 sits well above both the national £281,000 and Maidstone's own £350,000, a premium of roughly a fifth over the parent district. This is a village people buy into rather than pass through, and the For Sale boards you'll see are mostly family houses changing hands slowly — turnover here runs below the national rate. On schooling, the sample is thin, limited to a small independent primary and Barming Primary Academy nearby; there's no Ofsted-outstanding name to anchor a decision, so anyone prioritising a specific school badge will need to look at the wider Maidstone catchment rather than the village itself.