ME12 — house prices & area data
A free, sourced snapshot of ME12, Sittingbourne and Sheppey from Acreright. Every figure shows its source and date; where the data isn’t reliable we say so rather than guess.
ME12 is a postcode district in Sittingbourne and Sheppey. Homes here sold for a median of £260,000 over the last year, up 8.3% over five years. 21,740 sales are on record. Parts of it rank among England’s more-deprived areas (62% of its postcodes are in the most-deprived 30%). 49% of homes are rated EPC C or better.
- £143,000 median sold price (all time)
- £260,000 median price, last 12 months
- 21,740 recorded sales
- +8.3% 5-year price change
- 0% of postcodes in England’s least-deprived 30%
- 49% of homes rated EPC C or better
- Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid & English Indices of Deprivation, Sep 2026
Recent sales
| Address | Type | Price | Date |
|---|
| 40 Buttercup Avenue | Terraced | £240,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 75 Holmside Avenue | Detached | £287,000 | Jul 2026 |
| Covert Lodge Thorn Hill Road | Semi | £260,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 45 Wheatsheaf Gardens | Detached | £325,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 24 Ashley Close | Semi | £247,000 | Jul 2026 |
| Omega Elm Lane | Detached | £455,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 36 Court Tree Drive | Detached | £615,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 180 Queenborough Road | Detached | £368,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 138A Halfway Road | Semi | £255,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 7 Minster Road | Terraced | £120,000 | Jul 2026 |
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid · Sep 2026
Crime last 12 months
Most common- Violence and sexual offences 2,285
- Anti-social behaviour 1,183
- Criminal damage and arson 563
Source: police.uk street-level crime (Open Government Licence) · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Locations are anonymised "on or near" markers — where crime clusters, not a specific address.
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Across the wider Swale district
The figures below cover Swale — the council district ME12 sits within, the finest grain we publish for schools, health, transport, amenities and who lives here.
- £295,000 median home price (HM Land Registry Price Paid, May 2026)
- 151,677 residents (ONS Census 2021 (Nomis), 2021)
- 79% of inspected schools rated Good or Outstanding (Get Information About Schools (GIAS) + Ofsted inspections MI, 2026)
- ≈69 min fastest train to London (OpenStreetMap + National Rail timetable (ATOC/RDG, GTFS), 2026)
- 66% of premises can get gigabit broadband (Ofcom Connected Nations 2024, Jul 2024)
- 10.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 people (police.uk, Jul 2026)
- 79.4 · 83.8 yrs life expectancy (men · women) (OSM (NHS facilities) + IoD2025 health domain + OHID Fingertips (outcomes), 2026/2025)
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Prices by postcode sector
Median sold price — most recent 12 months where available, else all-time. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid.
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