Property market
The five-year median is £410,000 from 7 recorded sales in ME2 3FG. 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 3FG
Strood North & Frindsbury · 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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME2 3FG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2022
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME2
- Postcode sector
- ME2 3
- Latitude
- 51.403550
- Longitude
- 0.491467
- British National Grid easting
- 573,392
- British National Grid northing
- 170,114
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Strood North & Frindsbury · E05014467
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Rochester and Strood · E14001447
- Output area
- E00081561
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 005B · E01016134
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 005 · E02003318
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
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Marabel Gardens, Strood, Rochester, ME2 3FG | 30 November 2023 | £675,000 |
| 1, Marabel Gardens, Strood, Rochester, ME2 3FG | 25 August 2022 | £615,000 |
| 6, Marabel Gardens, Strood, Rochester, ME2 3FG | 2 August 2022 | £655,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 71
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 11
- 423 m
Temple Mill Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 559 m
Gordons Children's Academy, Infant
Academy sponsor led
- 559 m
Gordons Children's Academy, Junior
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,285
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 890
- Anti social behaviour 309
- Shoplifting 250
- Criminal damage and arson 183
- Other theft 174
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME2 3 residents
- 12,668
Age bands in ME2 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 17%
2,343 residents
1,334 residents
3,345 residents
3,467 residents
2,153 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
13
within 5 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
695 m
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
1.3 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
2.4 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
2.7 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
3.3 km
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
3.4 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
3.6 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
3.7 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
3.8 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
4.1 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
4.2 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
4.3 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
TILLEY CLOSE, MAIN ROAD, HOO, ROCHESTER, ME3 9AE
ODS code G82077
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Clarendon Drive
BCT · Frindsbury
- 0.1 miles
Clarendon Drive
BCT · Frindsbury
- 0.2 miles
King Arthur's Drive
BCT · Frindsbury
- 0.2 miles
Slatin Road
BCT · Frindsbury
- 0.2 miles
King Arthur's Drive
BCT · Frindsbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 005B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,587 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 1
- 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
71 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 11 secondary schools. Temple Mill Primary School is the nearest published school at 423 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,285 published events cover 12 months, averaging 190.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 890 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.