Property market
The five-year median is £288,500 from 3 recorded sales in ME2 2GB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Medway is £296,182 in June 2026, up 1.1% year on year.
ME2 2GB
Cuxton, Halling & Riverside · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rochester
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood
- Postcode district
- ME2
- Postcode sector
- ME2 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME2 2GB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2007
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME2
- Postcode sector
- ME2 2
- Latitude
- 51.385084
- Longitude
- 0.477169
- British National Grid easting
- 572,467
- British National Grid northing
- 168,027
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
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Rochester and Strood · E14001447
- Output area
- E00167411
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 011D · E01016157
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 011 · E02003324
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
Property
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Horace Road, Strood, Rochester, ME2 2GB | 28 November 2025 | £288,500 |
| 5, Horace Road, Rochester, ME2 2GB | 29 May 2025 | £365,000 |
| 16, Horace Road, Strood, Rochester, ME2 2GB | 26 July 2024 | £272,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 67
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 10
- 441 m
Cedar Children's Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 908 m
FORWARD2 EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
Special post 16 institution
- 957 m
Elaine Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,014
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 793
- Anti social behaviour 276
- Criminal damage and arson 167
- Other theft 156
- Shoplifting 132
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 53
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- ME2 2 residents
- 15,814
28 female, 25 male
Age bands in ME2 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.3%
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.
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
14
within 5 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
697 m
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
952 m
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
1.5 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
1.8 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
1.9 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
2.8 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
3.6 km
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
3.8 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
4.1 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FERRY ROAD, HALLING, ROCHESTER, ME2 1NP
ODS code G82106
4.5 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
4.7 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
4.8 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
4.9 km
KING GEORGE ROAD SURGERY
52A KING GEORGE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0TT
ODS code G82108
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Butlers Park Way
BCT · Strood
- 0.1 miles
Ballard Business Park
BCT · Medway Valley Park
- 0.1 miles
Medway Gate
BCT · Strood
- 0.2 miles
Ballard Business Park
BCT · Medway Valley Park
- 0.2 miles
Roman Way
BCT · Medway Valley Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 011D, 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
16,564 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
Schools
67 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 10 secondary schools. Cedar Children's Academy is the nearest published school at 441 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,014 published events cover 12 months, averaging 167.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 793 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.