Property market
The five-year median is £418,000 from 1 recorded sale in ME9 7DS. 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.
ME9 7DS
Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sittingbourne
- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey
- Postcode district
- ME9
- Postcode sector
- ME9 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME9 7DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME9
- Postcode sector
- ME9 7
- Latitude
- 51.373340
- Longitude
- 0.666760
- British National Grid easting
- 585,705
- British National Grid northing
- 167,184
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow · E05009545
- Parish or community
- E04005059
- Westminster constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey · E14001474
- Output area
- E00124736
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 008E · E01024575
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 008 · E02005122
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 ME9
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Crown Place, Lower Halstow, Sittingbourne, ME9 7DS | 5 June 2026 | £418,000 |
| 2, Crown Place, Lower Halstow, Sittingbourne, ME9 7DS | 4 December 2020 | £340,000 |
| 2, Crown Place, Lower Halstow, Sittingbourne, ME9 7DS | 29 June 2016 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 434 m
Lower Halstow Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Holywell Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Newington Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 133
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 41
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Other theft 14
- Public order 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- ME9 7 residents
- 7,866
5 female, 7 male
Age bands in ME9 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.9%
1,265 residents
769 residents
1,761 residents
2,096 residents
1,748 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME9 7 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
ORCHARD FAMILY PRACTICE
THE RED SUITE, 103-107 HIGH STREET, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 8AA
ODS code G82162
4.1 km
THE MEADS MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 QUARTZ WAY, THE MEADS, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 5AA
ODS code G82634
4.3 km
THAMES AVE SURGERY
2 THAMES AVENUE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9BW
ODS code G82154
4.6 km
MAIDSTONE RD RAINHAM SURGERY
53A-53B MAIDSTONE ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0DP
ODS code G82180
4.8 km
GROVEHURST HEALTH
GROVEHURST ROAD, KEMSLEY, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 2ST
ODS code G82026
4.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Green
BCT · Lower Halstow
- 0.1 miles
Landrail Road
BCT · Lower Halstow
- 0.1 miles
Landrail Road
BCT · Lower Halstow
- 0.2 miles
Breach Lane
BCT · Lower Halstow
- 0.2 miles
Breach Lane
BCT · Lower Halstow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 008E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,706 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
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
Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lower Halstow Primary School is the nearest published school at 434 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
133 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 41 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.