Property market
The five-year median is £410,000 from 2 recorded sales in ME9 8JX. 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 8JX
Borden and Grove Park · 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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME9 8JX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME9
- Postcode sector
- ME9 8
- Latitude
- 51.329175
- Longitude
- 0.673686
- British National Grid easting
- 586,366
- British National Grid northing
- 162,291
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- Borden and Grove Park · E05009546
- Parish or community
- E04012439
- Westminster constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey · E14001474
- Output area
- E00124636
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 009A · E01024554
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 009 · E02005123
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Applegate Farm, Pippin Lodge, Oad Street, Borden, Sittingbourne, ME9 8JX | 15 May 2026 | £440,000 |
| Applegate Farm, Brayburn Lodge, Oad Street, Borden, Sittingbourne, ME9 8JX | 29 September 2021 | £380,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.8 km
Borden Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
Bredgar Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
Westlands School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 46
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Other theft 6
- Vehicle crime 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 36
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- ME9 8 residents
- 7,570
18 female, 18 male
Age bands in ME9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.7%
1,489 residents
775 residents
2,027 residents
2,096 residents
1,284 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME9 8 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+
- 50%
- 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
- 91.7%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 50%
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
THE MEADS MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 QUARTZ WAY, THE MEADS, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 5AA
ODS code G82634
3.8 km
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
32 LONDON ROAD, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 1ND
ODS code G82231
4.0 km
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTRE
BELL ROAD, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4XX
ODS code G82693
4.4 km
THE MEDIC CARE SURGERY
SITTINGBOURNE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BELL ROAD, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4DT
ODS code G82698
4.4 km
THE CHESTNUTS SURGERY
70 EAST STREET, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 4RU
ODS code G82035
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
- 0.8 miles
Roundabout
BCT · Stockbury
- 1.4 miles
Newington Court Care Home
BCT · Keycol
- 1.4 miles
Newington Court Care Home
BCT · Keycol
- 1.5 miles
Rook Lane
BCT · Keycol
- 1.5 miles
Rook Lane
BCT · Keycol
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 009A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,069 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
22 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Borden Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
46 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.