Sheerness

Sheerness is covered by postcode districts ME11 and ME12. It is in the Swale council area, Kent.

Every postcode in Sheerness, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Sheerness, by flood risk Of the 289 postcodes in Sheerness that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 18 are at low risk at worst, 258 are at very low risk only and 10 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Sheerness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A249A250 ME12 2TF: not on the flood risk listME12 1AA: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AB: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AD: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AF: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AG: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AH: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AJ: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AL: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AQ: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AU: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AW: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BA: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BB: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BD: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BE: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BF: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BG: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BH: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BJ: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BL: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BN: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BP: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BQ: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BS: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BT: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BU: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BW: very low flood risk onlyME12 1BY: very low flood risk 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very low flood risk onlyME12 2BA: very low flood risk onlyME12 2BJ: very low flood risk onlyME12 2BQ: very low flood risk onlyME12 2BT: very low flood risk onlyME12 2BU: very low flood risk onlyME12 2BY: very low flood risk onlyME12 2ET: very low flood risk onlyME12 2FL: very low flood risk onlyME12 2FN: very low flood risk onlyME12 2FQ: very low flood risk onlyME12 2NS: very low flood risk onlyME12 2NT: very low flood risk onlyME12 2NU: very low flood risk onlyME12 2NX: very low flood risk onlyME12 2NY: very low flood risk onlyME12 2NZ: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PA: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PB: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PD: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PE: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PF: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PJ: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PL: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PN: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PP: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PQ: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PR: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PS: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PT: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PU: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PW: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PX: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PY: very low flood risk onlyME12 2PZ: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QA: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QB: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QE: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QF: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QG: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QL: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QN: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QP: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QQ: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QR: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QS: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QT: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QW: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QX: very low flood risk onlyME12 2QY: very low flood risk onlyME12 2SS: very low flood risk onlyME12 2ST: very low flood risk onlyME12 2SU: very low flood risk onlyME12 1AY: low flood risk at worstME12 1NB: low flood risk at worstME12 1RE: low flood risk at worstME12 1RH: low flood risk at worstME12 1SR: low flood risk at worstME12 1TF: low flood risk at worstME12 1TP: low flood risk at worstME12 1TS: low flood risk at worstME12 1YW: low flood risk at worstME12 2AA: low flood risk at worstME12 2AN: low flood risk at worstME12 2AP: low flood risk at worstME12 2AW: low flood risk at worstME12 2BB: low flood risk at worstME12 2BD: low flood risk at worstME12 2BE: low flood risk at worstME12 2BG: low flood risk at worstME12 2QD: low flood risk at worstME12 1RS: high flood riskME12 2BX: high flood risk Sheerness Map of every postcode in Sheerness, by flood risk Of the 289 postcodes in Sheerness that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 18 are at low risk at worst, 258 are at very low risk only and 10 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Sheerness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A250 Sheerness
  • A home or business at high risk: 3
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 18
  • At very low risk only: 258
  • Not on the at-risk list: 10

Of the 289 postcodes in Sheerness that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 18 are at low risk at worst, 258 are at very low risk only and 10 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.4369, longitude 0.7616. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

What is it like to live in Sheerness?

Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.8% on the 12 months before. At 175 of the 272 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 23 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 279 of its 289 postcodes. It has 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Sheerness-on-Sea, 500 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Sheerness?

Homes in Sheerness sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 92 sales, up 4.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£220,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£210,000
12 months to August 2026
£220,000

▲ up 4.8% on the 12 months before

Detached 3 sales, too few to price
Semi-detached£275,000 21 sales
Terraced£208,500 64 sales
Flat or maisonette 4 sales, too few to price

Across the whole ME12 district, Sheerness's main postcode district: a typical £280,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Sheerness: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Sheerness?

12 of the 289 postcodes now in use in Sheerness came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 105 homes sold in Sheerness were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME12 district, 9%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn SheernessAcross the ME12 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 92 (0%) 6 of 421 (1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 105 (0%) 54 of 584 (9%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Sheerness?

Ofcom reports on 272 of the 289 postcodes in Sheerness. At 175 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit175 of 272
Postcodes where every home can get superfast255 of 272
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 272

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Sheerness at risk of flooding?

279 of the 289 postcodes in Sheerness have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 23 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 279 of 289 postcodes High: 19Medium: 4Low: 291Very low: 6,791

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Sheerness?

The open schools at the postcodes in Sheerness. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Sheerness?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Sheerness is Sheerness-on-Sea Rail Station, 500 m away in a straight line.

  • Sheerness-on-Sea Rail Station Railway station 500 mWalk
  • Queenborough Rail Station Railway station 2.5 kmCycle
  • Swale Rail Station Railway station 5.4 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Sheerness?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Sheerness, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Sheerness safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 2,884 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Sheerness over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 191 September 2025
  2. 185 October 2025
  3. 200 November 2025
  4. 246 December 2025
  5. 265 January 2026
  6. 232 February 2026
  7. 268 March 2026
  8. 240 April 2026
  9. 248 May 2026
  10. 222 June 2026
  11. 324 July 2026
  12. 263 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences988 reports
Anti-social behaviour707 reports
Shoplifting297 reports
Criminal damage and arson288 reports
Other theft125 reports
Public order109 reports
Drugs89 reports
Other crime76 reports

Also: vehicle crime 75, burglary 64, possession of weapons 31, robbery 22, bicycle theft 8, theft from the person 5.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Sheerness?

District, borough or city council
Swale
County council
Kent
Parliamentary constituency
Sittingbourne and Sheppey
Police force area
Kent
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Kevin McKenna (Labour)

All 289 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

Moving to Sheerness

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Sheerness postcodes

289 postcodes in use in Sheerness, by district:

Those districts are all in the ME postcode area.

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Places near Sheerness

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Sheerness's £220,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Questions about Sheerness

What is it like to live in Sheerness?
Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.8% on the 12 months before. At 175 of the 272 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 23 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 279 of its 289 postcodes. It has 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Sheerness-on-Sea, 500 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Sheerness?
Sheerness is covered by postcode districts ME11 and ME12, across 289 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Sheerness in?
Sheerness is in the Swale council area, and Kent is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Sheerness?
Sheerness is in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Kevin McKenna (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Sheerness?
Homes in Sheerness sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 92 sales, up 4.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Sheerness?
In Sheerness, primary schools at its postcodes include Rose Street Primary School, St Edward's Catholic Primary School and Richmond Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include EKC Sheppey Secondary. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Sheerness have a railway station?
Yes: Sheerness-on-Sea is 500 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Sheerness, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Sheerness?
Ofcom reports on 272 of the 289 postcodes in Sheerness. At 175 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Sheerness at risk of flooding?
279 of the 289 postcodes in Sheerness have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 23 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Sheerness?
12 of the 289 postcodes now in use in Sheerness came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 105 homes sold in Sheerness were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME12 district, 9%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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