Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. Medway Green School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME2 1FQ
Cuxton, Halling & Riverside · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood
- Postcode district
- ME2
- Postcode sector
- ME2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME2 1FQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME2
- Postcode sector
- ME2 1
- Latitude
- 51.359236
- Longitude
- 0.445105
- British National Grid easting
- 570,332
- British National Grid northing
- 165,078
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Cuxton, Halling & Riverside · E05014451
- Parish or community
- E04001134
- Westminster constituency
- Rochester and Strood · E14001447
- Output area
- E00081036
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 028D · E01016029
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 028 · E02003341
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 ME2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.5 km
Medway Green School
Other independent special school
- 1.6 km
Cuxton Community Junior School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.7 km
Cuxton Community Infant School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 232
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 88
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Criminal damage and arson 21
- Other theft 20
- Shoplifting 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME2 1 residents
- 6,605
Age bands in ME2 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
1,183 residents
624 residents
1,672 residents
1,856 residents
1,264 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FERRY ROAD, HALLING, ROCHESTER, ME2 1NP
ODS code G82106
1.2 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
3.0 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
3.5 km
SNODLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
CATTS ALLEY, MALLING ROAD, SNODLAND, ME6 5SN
ODS code G82085
3.6 km
PHOENIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
33 BELL LANE, BURHAM, ROCHESTER, ME1 3SX
ODS code G82234
4.2 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
4.6 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
4.7 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
4.8 km
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St Andrews Park
BCT · Halling
- 0.0 miles
St Andrews Park
BCT · Halling
- 0.3 miles
Jade Hill
BCT · Halling
- 0.3 miles
Cuxton Marina
BCT · North Halling
- 0.3 miles
Jade Hill
BCT · Halling
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 028D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,257 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
232 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 88 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.