Schools
93 open schools are in scope, including 59 primary and 15 secondary schools. Balfour Infant School is the nearest published school at 285 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME1 2AY
Fort Pitt · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Fort Pitt
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford
- Postcode district
- ME1
- Postcode sector
- ME1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME1 2AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME1
- Postcode sector
- ME1 2
- Latitude
- 51.372109
- Longitude
- 0.511213
- British National Grid easting
- 574,885
- British National Grid northing
- 166,665
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Fort Pitt · E05014453
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford · E14001157
- Output area
- E00081504
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 026C · E01016124
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 026 · E02003339
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 ME1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 93
- Primary
- 59
- Secondary
- 15
- 285 m
Balfour Infant School
Community school
- 315 m
Balfour Junior School
Academy converter
- 347 m
Crest Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,771
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,227
- Anti social behaviour 743
- Shoplifting 643
- Criminal damage and arson 478
- Other theft 414
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME1 2 residents
- 14,791
Age bands in ME1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
2,705 residents
1,507 residents
3,898 residents
3,899 residents
2,496 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.
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
20
within 5 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
0 m
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
1.1 km
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
1.3 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
1.4 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
1.7 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
2.0 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
2.1 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
2.4 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
2.6 km
KING GEORGE ROAD SURGERY
52A KING GEORGE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0TT
ODS code G82108
2.6 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
2.6 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
3.1 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
3.1 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
3.1 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
3.5 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
3.7 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
3.9 km
REACH HEALTHCARE
WALDERSLADE VILLAGE SURGERY, 62A ROBIN HOOD LANE, CHATHAM, ME5 9LD
ODS code G82161
3.9 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
4.3 km
EASTCOURT LANE SURGERY
52 EASTCOURT LANE, TWYDALL, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6EY
ODS code G82600
4.7 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
Pattens Lane
BCT · Rochester
- 0.1 miles
Pattens Lane junction
BCT · Rochester
- 0.1 miles
Pattens Lane
BCT · Rochester
- 0.1 miles
Pattens Lane junction
BCT · Rochester
- 0.1 miles
Beresford Avenue
BCT · Chatham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 026C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,830 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
Recorded crime
5,771 published events cover 12 months, averaging 480.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,227 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.