Property market
The five-year median is £400,000 from 5 recorded sales in ME12 2LB. 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.
ME12 2LB
Minster Cliffs · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sheerness
- Ward
- Minster Cliffs
- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME12 2LB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 2
- Latitude
- 51.429569
- Longitude
- 0.800256
- British National Grid easting
- 594,756
- British National Grid northing
- 173,782
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- Minster Cliffs · E05009554
- Parish or community
- E04005079
- Westminster constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey · E14001474
- Output area
- E00124802
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 003B · E01024587
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 003 · E02005117
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 ME12
Property
25 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Marlena, Sexburga Drive, Minster On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 2LB | 5 June 2026 | £370,000 |
| The Tree House, Sexburga Drive, Minster On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 2LB | 10 April 2026 | £575,000 |
| Conifers, Sexburga Drive, Minster On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 2LB | 1 August 2025 | £460,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 674 m
The Elmley Dray School
Other independent special school
- 965 m
Minster in Sheppey Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Leigh Academy Minster
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 703
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 280
- Anti social behaviour 154
- Criminal damage and arson 84
- Other theft 45
- Vehicle crime 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 55
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- ME12 2 residents
- 13,057
26 female, 29 male
Age bands in ME12 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.4%
2,544 residents
1,423 residents
3,165 residents
3,544 residents
2,729 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME12 2 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+
- 80.8%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80.8%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80.8%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 57.7%
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
5
within 5 km
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE
250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82023
2.4 km
VEL SURGERY
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE, 250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82687
2.4 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL CENTRE
55 ST. GEORGES AVENUE, SHEERNESS, ME12 1QU
ODS code G82057
2.7 km
THE OM MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOD STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UA
ODS code G82682
2.8 km
SHEPPEY HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE
ROYAL ROAD, OFF THE BROADWAY, SHEERNESS, ME12 1HH
ODS code G82799
2.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wards Hill Road Bottom
BCT · Minster
- 0.1 miles
Wards Hill Road Bottom
BCT · Minster
- 0.1 miles
Wards Hill Road Bottom
BCT · Minster
- 0.1 miles
Minster Drive
BCT · Minster
- 0.2 miles
Minster Drive
BCT · Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 003B, 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
14,726 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 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
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Elmley Dray School is the nearest published school at 674 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
703 published events cover 12 months, averaging 58.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 280 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.