Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Iwade School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME9 8TD
Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey
- Postcode district
- ME9
- Postcode sector
- ME9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME9 8TD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 2000
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME9
- Postcode sector
- ME9 8
- Latitude
- 51.388973
- Longitude
- 0.747665
- British National Grid easting
- 591,270
- British National Grid northing
- 169,130
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
- E04005056
- Westminster constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey · E14001474
- Output area
- E00166872
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 007G · E01032655
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 007 · E02005121
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.8 km
Iwade School
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- 2.9 km
Kemsley Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 3.0 km
Queenborough School and Nursery
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 30
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Other crime 2
- Vehicle crime 2
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME9 8 residents
- 7,570
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
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
GROVEHURST HEALTH
GROVEHURST ROAD, KEMSLEY, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 2ST
ODS code G82026
2.9 km
GREEN PORCH MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
GREEN PORCH MEDICAL CENTRE, GREEN PORCH CLOSE, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 2HA
ODS code G82702
3.8 km
THE MEADS MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 QUARTZ WAY, THE MEADS, SITTINGBOURNE, ME10 5AA
ODS code G82634
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Swale Rail Station
RSE · Swale
- 0.0 miles
Swale Rail Station
RLY · Swale
- 0.0 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Swale
- 0.0 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Swale
- 1.0 miles
Sanderling Way
BCT · Iwade
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 007G, 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
23,459 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
30 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.