Property market
The five-year median is £120,000 from 1 recorded sale in ME12 3RN. 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 3RN
Sheppey Central · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Queenborough
- 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 3RN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 3
- Latitude
- 51.399181
- Longitude
- 0.769831
- British National Grid easting
- 592,769
- British National Grid northing
- 170,323
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
- E00124945
- 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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Kingsferry Gun Club, Ferry Road, Queenborough, ME12 3RN | 6 September 2022 | £120,000 |
| 1, Beefsteak Cottages, Elmley, Sheerness, ME12 3RN | 18 December 1998 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.1 km
Queenborough School and Nursery
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Leigh Academy Minster
Academy sponsor led
- 2.7 km
Thistle Hill Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 79
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 16
- Violence and sexual offences 16
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Other theft 8
- Vehicle crime 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- ME12 3 residents
- 14,263
4 female, 2 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% 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+
- 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE
250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82023
4.1 km
VEL SURGERY
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE, 250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82687
4.1 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL CENTRE
55 ST. GEORGES AVENUE, SHEERNESS, ME12 1QU
ODS code G82057
4.1 km
THE OM MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOD STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UA
ODS code G82682
4.4 km
GROVEHURST HEALTH
GROVEHURST ROAD, KEMSLEY, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 2ST
ODS code G82026
4.6 km
SHEPPEY HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE
ROYAL ROAD, OFF THE BROADWAY, SHEERNESS, ME12 1HH
ODS code G82799
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Stray Marsh Farm
BCT · Queenborough
- 0.2 miles
Stray Marsh Farm
BCT · Queenborough
- 0.9 miles
Aldi
BCT · Queenborough
- 0.9 miles
Morrisons
BCT · Queenborough
- 0.9 miles
Morrisons
BCT · Queenborough
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
- 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
15 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Queenborough School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
79 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 16 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.