Property market
The five-year median is £282,500 from 3 recorded sales in ME12 3PS. 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 3PS
Sheppey Central · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sheerness
- Ward
- Sheppey Central
- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME12 3PS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 3
- Latitude
- 51.420622
- Longitude
- 0.809937
- British National Grid easting
- 595,467
- British National Grid northing
- 172,813
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- Sheppey Central · E05009561
- Parish or community
- E04005079
- Westminster constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey · E14001474
- Output area
- E00124946
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 005D · E01024620
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 005 · E02005119
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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Petfield Close, Minster On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 3PS | 24 November 2023 | £282,500 |
| 11, Petfield Close, Minster On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 3PS | 17 February 2023 | £261,000 |
| 2, Petfield Close, Minster On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 3PS | 5 August 2022 | £285,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 241 m
Minster in Sheppey Primary School
Academy converter
- 651 m
St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School
Academy converter
- 933 m
Thistle Hill Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,028
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 412
- Anti social behaviour 215
- Criminal damage and arson 124
- Other theft 67
- Vehicle crime 47
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 29
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- ME12 3 residents
- 14,263
12 female, 17 male
Age bands in ME12 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
2,508 residents
1,411 residents
3,509 residents
3,492 residents
2,674 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME12 3 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+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 87.5%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 93.8%
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
3.5 km
VEL SURGERY
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE, 250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82687
3.5 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL CENTRE
55 ST. GEORGES AVENUE, SHEERNESS, ME12 1QU
ODS code G82057
3.7 km
THE OM MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOD STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UA
ODS code G82682
3.9 km
SHEPPEY HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE
ROYAL ROAD, OFF THE BROADWAY, SHEERNESS, ME12 1HH
ODS code G82799
4.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Minster
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Minster
- 0.1 miles
Scocles Road Top
BCT · Minster
- 0.1 miles
Harps Avenue
BCT · Minster
- 0.1 miles
Back Lane
BCT · Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 005D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,366 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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. Minster in Sheppey Primary School is the nearest published school at 241 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,028 published events cover 12 months, averaging 85.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 412 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.