Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Rodmersham School is the nearest published school at 871 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME9 0QN
West Downs · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sittingbourne
- Ward
- West Downs
- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- Postcode district
- ME9
- Postcode sector
- ME9 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME9 0QN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME9
- Postcode sector
- ME9 0
- Latitude
- 51.311518
- Longitude
- 0.754444
- British National Grid easting
- 592,065
- British National Grid northing
- 160,536
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- West Downs · E05009566
- Parish or community
- E04005069
- Westminster constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent · E14001235
- Output area
- E00124999
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 013C · E01024628
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 013 · E02005127
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
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Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bargains Hill Farm, The Barn, Pitstock Road, Rodmersham, Sittingbourne, ME9 0QN | 22 November 2005 | £390,000 |
| Bargains Hill Farm, The Barn, Pitstock Road, Rodmersham, Sittingbourne, ME9 0QN | 22 April 2002 | £285,000 |
| Bargains Hill House, Pitstock Road, Rodmersham, Sittingbourne, ME9 0QN | 22 March 2001 | £157,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 5
- 871 m
Rodmersham School
Community school
- 2.4 km
The Sittingbourne School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.4 km
Lynsted and Norton Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Vehicle crime 4
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Other crime 1
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 4.4
- ME9 0 residents
- 2,676
11 female, 11 male
Age bands in ME9 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
409 residents
291 residents
526 residents
893 residents
700 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME9 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 25%
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
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTRE
BELL ROAD, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4XX
ODS code G82693
2.9 km
THE MEDIC CARE SURGERY
SITTINGBOURNE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BELL ROAD, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4DT
ODS code G82698
2.9 km
THE CHESTNUTS SURGERY
70 EAST STREET, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4RU
ODS code G82035
3.1 km
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
32 LONDON ROAD, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 1ND
ODS code G82231
3.9 km
GREEN PORCH MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
GREEN PORCH MEDICAL CENTRE, GREEN PORCH CLOSE, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 2HA
ODS code G82702
5.0 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
- 0.6 miles
Fruiterers Arms
BCT · Rodmersham
- 1.3 miles
Carnation Crescent
BCT · Eden Village
- 1.4 miles
Crocus Drive
BCT · Eden Village
- 1.4 miles
Rectory Road
BCT · Snipeshill
- 1.5 miles
Rectory Road
BCT · Snipeshill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 013C, 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
15,370 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
20 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.