Property market
The five-year median is £245,000 from 11 recorded sales in ME10 1BU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Swale is £298,394 in June 2026, up 4.5% year on year.
ME10 1BU
Homewood · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sittingbourne
- Ward
- Homewood
- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey
- Postcode district
- ME10
- Postcode sector
- ME10 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME10 1BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME10
- Postcode sector
- ME10 1
- Latitude
- 51.341152
- Longitude
- 0.721857
- British National Grid easting
- 589,672
- British National Grid northing
- 163,746
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- Homewood · E05009551
- Parish or community
- E43000268
- Westminster constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey · E14001474
- Output area
- E00124662
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 012B · E01024562
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 012 · E02005126
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore ME10
Property
82 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 13, Borden Lane, Sittingbourne, ME10 1BU | 26 February 2026 | £253,000 |
| 31, Borden Lane, Sittingbourne, ME10 1BU | 29 August 2025 | £252,000 |
| 47, Borden Lane, Sittingbourne, ME10 1BU | 29 October 2024 | £235,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 5
- 366 m
Westlands Primary School
Academy converter
- 777 m
Westlands School
Academy converter
- 821 m
St Peter's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,011
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,080
- Shoplifting 447
- Anti social behaviour 442
- Criminal damage and arson 279
- Other theft 194
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 86
- Postcode households
- 40
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- ME10 1 residents
- 13,869
44 female, 42 male
Age bands in ME10 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
2,428 residents
1,442 residents
3,394 residents
3,445 residents
3,231 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME10 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 36.6%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
32 LONDON ROAD, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 1ND
ODS code G82231
363 m
THE MEADS MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 QUARTZ WAY, THE MEADS, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 5AA
ODS code G82634
1.1 km
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTRE
BELL ROAD, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4XX
ODS code G82693
1.3 km
THE MEDIC CARE SURGERY
SITTINGBOURNE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BELL ROAD, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4DT
ODS code G82698
1.3 km
THE CHESTNUTS SURGERY
70 EAST STREET, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4RU
ODS code G82035
1.6 km
GREEN PORCH MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
GREEN PORCH MEDICAL CENTRE, GREEN PORCH CLOSE, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 2HA
ODS code G82702
2.0 km
GROVEHURST HEALTH
GROVEHURST ROAD, KEMSLEY, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 2ST
ODS code G82026
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Coniston
BCT · Chalkwell
- 0.1 miles
The King's Head
BCT · Chalkwell
- 0.2 miles
Sydney Avenue
BCT · Sittingbourne
- 0.2 miles
Sydney Avenue
BCT · Sittingbourne
- 0.2 miles
Perth Gardens
BCT · Sittingbourne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 012B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,981 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 5 secondary schools. Westlands Primary School is the nearest published school at 366 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,011 published events cover 12 months, averaging 250.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,080 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.