Harrietsham has a population of 1,442, making it the 91st largest place in Kent. The 2005 World Gazetteer recorded 1,537 for Harrietsham, but drew the settlement's boundary differently, so the two are not directly comparable.
1,537
in 2005
#91
of 155 in Kent
The other populations of Harrietsham
The same name covers more than one area, and each has its own figure.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
1,442 | GeoNames |
| The place in 2005 The same settlement twenty years earlier. |
1,537 | World Gazetteer (2005) |
Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place
The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Maidstone population trends, 2001–2025.
Harrietsham in context
3 km
east to Lenham, the nearest larger town
9,661
people live within 10 km
#3,436
largest of 6,358 UK places
520
food businesses in Maidstone
Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.
The centre of Harrietsham sits in postcode district ME17.
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Population since 2001
Maidstone, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district ME17
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile
Nearby in Kent
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blean | 1,536 |
| 2 | Littlebourne | 1,529 |
| 3 | Eythorne | 1,520 |
| 4 | Speldhurst | 1,436 |
| 5 | Capel le Ferne | 1,386 |
| 6 | Sundridge | 1,383 |