Strood West · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
St Nicholas CEVC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Gordons Children's Academy, Infant
Academy sponsor led
Gordons Children's Academy, Junior
Academy sponsor led
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
23 female, 18 male
3,527 residents
1,848 residents
4,656 residents
3,760 residents
2,116 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME2 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
394 m
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
544 m
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
1.5 km
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
2.0 km
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
2.6 km
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
3.1 km
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
3.4 km
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
3.8 km
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
3.9 km
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
4.3 km
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
4.4 km
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
4.4 km
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
4.5 km
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
5.0 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.
Downside
BCT · Strood
Sports Centre
BCT · Strood
Downside
BCT · Strood
The Coach and Horses
BCT · Strood
Darnley Arch
BCT · Strood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 008C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,850 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
71 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 12 secondary schools. St Nicholas CEVC Primary School is the nearest published school at 248 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
3,012 published events cover 12 months, averaging 251 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,142 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.