Property market
The five-year median is £387,500 from 8 recorded sales in ME12 3XR. 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 3XR
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 3XR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 3
- Latitude
- 51.416220
- Longitude
- 0.810098
- British National Grid easting
- 595,497
- British National Grid northing
- 172,324
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
- E00124956
- 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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Redshank Way, Minster On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 3XR | 18 September 2025 | £405,000 |
| 1, Redshank Way, Minster On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 3XR | 31 March 2025 | £370,000 |
| 5, Redshank Way, Minster On Sea, Sheerness, ME12 3XR | 28 March 2025 | £330,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 705 m
Thistle Hill Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 712 m
St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School
Academy converter
- 719 m
Minster in Sheppey Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 997
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 404
- Anti social behaviour 196
- Criminal damage and arson 122
- Other theft 68
- Vehicle crime 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME12 3 residents
- 14,263
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
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
- 0%
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 straight-line
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE
250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82023
3.7 km
VEL SURGERY
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE, 250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82687
3.7 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL CENTRE
55 ST. GEORGES AVENUE, SHEERNESS, ME12 1QU
ODS code G82057
4.0 km
THE OM MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOD STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UA
ODS code G82682
4.2 km
SHEPPEY HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE
ROYAL ROAD, OFF THE BROADWAY, SHEERNESS, ME12 1HH
ODS code G82799
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Harps Avenue
BCT · Minster
- 0.2 miles
Harps Avenue
BCT · Minster
- 0.3 miles
Primary School
BCT · Minster
- 0.4 miles
Scocles Road Top
BCT · Minster
- 0.4 miles
Primary School
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.
Evidence in context
Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Thistle Hill Academy is the nearest published school at 705 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
997 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 404 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.