Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Sheldwich Primary School is the nearest published school at 786 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME13 0LQ
Boughton and Courtenay · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- Postcode district
- ME13
- Postcode sector
- ME13 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME13 0LQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME13
- Postcode sector
- ME13 0
- Latitude
- 51.272736
- Longitude
- 0.894577
- British National Grid easting
- 602,000
- British National Grid northing
- 156,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- Boughton and Courtenay · E05009547
- Parish or community
- E04005071
- Westminster constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent · E14001235
- Output area
- E00124659
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 017A · E01024555
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 017 · E02005131
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 ME13
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 786 m
Sheldwich Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Selling Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.7 km
Lorenden Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 34
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 15
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 3
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME13 0 residents
- 2,991
Age bands in ME13 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
464 residents
312 residents
612 residents
1,171 residents
896 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
FAVERSHAM MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON ROAD, FAVERSHAM, ME13 8FH
ODS code G82039
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Primary School
BCT · Sheldwich
- 0.6 miles
Church
BCT · Sheldwich
- 0.6 miles
Church
BCT · Sheldwich
- 1.0 miles
Ashford Road
BCT · North Street
- 1.0 miles
Ashford Road
BCT · North Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 017A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,330 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
34 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 15 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.