Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. Minterne Junior School is the nearest published school at 396 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME10 1LF
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 1LF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2019
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME10
- Postcode sector
- ME10 1
- Latitude
- 51.334547
- Longitude
- 0.718509
- British National Grid easting
- 589,466
- British National Grid northing
- 163,003
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
- E00125007
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 012E · E01024632
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Kent Adult Education Service, College Road, Sittingbourne, ME10 1LF | 16 July 2020 | £1,166,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 396 m
Minterne Junior School
Academy converter
- 412 m
Westlands Primary School
Academy converter
- 417 m
St Peter's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,053
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 706
- Shoplifting 331
- Anti social behaviour 308
- Criminal damage and arson 185
- Other theft 126
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME10 1 residents
- 13,869
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
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
- 100%
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
1.0 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 MEADS MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 QUARTZ WAY, THE MEADS, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 5AA
ODS code G82634
1.8 km
THE CHESTNUTS SURGERY
70 EAST STREET, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4RU
ODS code G82035
1.8 km
GREEN PORCH MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
GREEN PORCH MEDICAL CENTRE, GREEN PORCH CLOSE, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 2HA
ODS code G82702
2.7 km
GROVEHURST HEALTH
GROVEHURST ROAD, KEMSLEY, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 2ST
ODS code G82026
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Beauty of Bath
BCT · Sittingbourne
- 0.2 miles
Windsor Drive
BCT · Sittingbourne
- 0.2 miles
Auckland Drive
BCT · Sittingbourne
- 0.2 miles
Auckland Drive
BCT · Sittingbourne
- 0.3 miles
Riddles Road
BCT · Sittingbourne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 012E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,288 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,053 published events cover 12 months, averaging 171.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 706 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.