Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Richmond Primary School is the nearest published school at 250 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME12 2QU
Sheerness · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sheerness
- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME12 2QU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 2
- Latitude
- 51.435821
- Longitude
- 0.771054
- British National Grid easting
- 592,700
- British National Grid northing
- 174,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- Sheerness · E05009560
- Parish or community
- E04012936
- Westminster constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey · E14001474
- Output area
- E00124912
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 001D · E01024612
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 001 · E02005115
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 250 m
Richmond Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 434 m
EKC Sheppey Secondary
Academy sponsor led
- 847 m
Rose Street Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,532
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,005
- Anti social behaviour 373
- Criminal damage and arson 309
- Shoplifting 258
- Other theft 120
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME12 2 residents
- 13,057
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
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.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE
250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82023
307 m
VEL SURGERY
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE, 250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82687
307 m
ST GEORGES MEDICAL CENTRE
55 ST. GEORGES AVENUE, SHEERNESS, ME12 1QU
ODS code G82057
600 m
THE OM MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOD STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UA
ODS code G82682
698 m
SHEPPEY HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE
ROYAL ROAD, OFF THE BROADWAY, SHEERNESS, ME12 1HH
ODS code G82799
806 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Coronation Road
BCT · Sheerness
- 0.2 miles
Coronation Road
BCT · Sheerness
- 0.3 miles
Cavour Road
BCT · Sheerness
- 0.3 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Sheerness
- 0.3 miles
Holiday Village
BCT · Sheerness
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 001D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,595 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
2,532 published events cover 12 months, averaging 211 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,005 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.