Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Abbey School is the nearest published school at 324 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME13 8ZH
Watling · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Watling
- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- Postcode district
- ME13
- Postcode sector
- ME13 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME13 8ZH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME13
- Postcode sector
- ME13 8
- Latitude
- 51.306328
- Longitude
- 0.890306
- British National Grid easting
- 601,555
- British National Grid northing
- 160,323
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- Watling · E05009565
- Parish or community
- E04005052
- Westminster constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent · E14001235
- Output area
- E00189701
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 014E · E01024626
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 014 · E02005128
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
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 324 m
The Abbey School
Academy converter
- 668 m
Ethelbert Road Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
St Mary of Charity CofE (Aided) Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,392
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 472
- Anti social behaviour 229
- Shoplifting 179
- Criminal damage and arson 142
- Other theft 87
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME13 8 residents
- 11,368
Age bands in ME13 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.1%
1,889 residents
1,105 residents
2,743 residents
2,832 residents
2,027 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
FAVERSHAM MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON ROAD, FAVERSHAM, ME13 8FH
ODS code G82039
779 m
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
- 0.1 miles
Preston Park
BCT · Preston
- 0.2 miles
Preston Park
BCT · Preston
- 0.2 miles
Aldi
BCT · Faversham
- 0.2 miles
The Mall
BCT · Faversham
- 0.2 miles
The Mall
BCT · Faversham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 014E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,007 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,392 published events cover 12 months, averaging 116 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 472 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.