Property market
The five-year median is £1,550,000 from 1 recorded sale in ME12 3XY. 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 3XY
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 3XY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 3
- Latitude
- 51.412841
- Longitude
- 0.802470
- British National Grid easting
- 594,981
- British National Grid northing
- 171,928
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
- E00189762
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 004H · E01035298
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 004 · E02005118
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lidl Uk Gmbh, Queenborough Road, Queenborough, ME12 3XY | 21 December 2023 | £1,550,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 273 m
Thistle Hill Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Minster in Sheppey Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
The Elmley Dray School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 906
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 368
- Anti social behaviour 183
- Criminal damage and arson 112
- Other theft 57
- Vehicle crime 40
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.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE
250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82023
3.6 km
VEL SURGERY
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE, 250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82687
3.6 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL CENTRE
55 ST. GEORGES AVENUE, SHEERNESS, ME12 1QU
ODS code G82057
3.8 km
THE OM MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOD STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UA
ODS code G82682
4.0 km
SHEPPEY HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE
ROYAL ROAD, OFF THE BROADWAY, SHEERNESS, ME12 1HH
ODS code G82799
4.2 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
- 0.2 miles
Heron Drive
BCT · Thistle Hill
- 0.2 miles
Heron Drive
BCT · Thistle Hill
- 0.2 miles
Scocles Road
BCT · Minster
- 0.2 miles
Nettle Way
BCT · Thistle Hill
- 0.2 miles
Scocles Road
BCT · Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 004H, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,566 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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 273 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
906 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 368 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.