Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Leigh Academy Minster is the nearest published school at 725 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME12 6AL
Sheppey Central · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sheppey Central
- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME12 6AL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME12
- Postcode sector
- ME12 6
- Latitude
- 51.413065
- Longitude
- 0.787771
- British National Grid easting
- 593,958
- British National Grid northing
- 171,914
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
- E00166804
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 004F · E01032653
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 725 m
Leigh Academy Minster
Academy sponsor led
- 887 m
Thistle Hill Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Nore Academy
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 886
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 383
- Anti social behaviour 172
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Other theft 51
- Vehicle crime 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE
250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82023
3.0 km
VEL SURGERY
SHEERNESS HEALTH CENTRE, 250-262 HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UP
ODS code G82687
3.0 km
ST GEORGES MEDICAL CENTRE
55 ST. GEORGES AVENUE, SHEERNESS, ME12 1QU
ODS code G82057
3.1 km
THE OM MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOD STREET, SHEERNESS, ME12 1UA
ODS code G82682
3.4 km
SHEPPEY HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE
ROYAL ROAD, OFF THE BROADWAY, SHEERNESS, ME12 1HH
ODS code G82799
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Barton Hill Drive south end
BCT · Minster
- 0.1 miles
Barton Hill Drive south end
BCT · Minster
- 0.2 miles
Lovell Road
BCT · Minster
- 0.2 miles
Lovell Road
BCT · Minster
- 0.3 miles
Sheppey Hospital
BCT · Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 004F, 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
11,139 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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
Recorded crime
886 published events cover 12 months, averaging 73.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 383 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.