Property market
The five-year median is £368,000 from 1 recorded sale in ME2 4SE. 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 4SE
Strood Rural · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rochester
- Ward
- Strood Rural
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood
- Postcode district
- ME2
- Postcode sector
- ME2 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME2 4SE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME2
- Postcode sector
- ME2 4
- Latitude
- 51.410785
- Longitude
- 0.511074
- British National Grid easting
- 574,728
- British National Grid northing
- 170,965
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Strood Rural · E05014468
- Parish or community
- E04001133
- Westminster constituency
- Rochester and Strood · E14001447
- Output area
- E00081622
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 004D · E01035288
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 004 · E02003317
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 32, Gill Avenue, Wainscott, Rochester, ME2 4SE | 10 March 2023 | £368,000 |
| 34, Gill Avenue, Wainscott, Rochester, ME2 4SE | 11 December 2017 | £134,000 |
| 34, Gill Avenue, Wainscott, Rochester, ME2 4SE | 3 February 2005 | £85,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 66
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 11
- 288 m
Wainscott Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 765 m
Maritime Academy
Free schools
- 932 m
Hilltop Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 841
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 358
- Anti social behaviour 152
- Criminal damage and arson 74
- Other theft 54
- Shoplifting 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 81
- Postcode households
- 50
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- ME2 4 residents
- 7,736
44 female, 37 male
Age bands in ME2 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
1,440 residents
820 residents
2,069 residents
2,163 residents
1,386 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME2 4 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
15
within 5 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
1.9 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
1.9 km
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
2.8 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
2.8 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
3.3 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
3.4 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
TILLEY CLOSE, MAIN ROAD, HOO, ROCHESTER, ME3 9AE
ODS code G82077
3.4 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
3.7 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
3.9 km
ST. WERBURGH MED.PRACTICE
98 BELLS LANE, HOO, ST WERBURGH, ROCHESTER, ME3 9HU
ODS code G82233
3.9 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
3.9 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
4.0 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
4.3 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
4.4 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wainscott Walk
BCT · Wainscott
- 0.1 miles
Gill Avenue
BCT · Wainscott
- 0.1 miles
Wainscott Walk
BCT · Wainscott
- 0.1 miles
Greenfields Close
BCT · Wainscott
- 0.1 miles
Higham Road
BCT · Wainscott
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 004D, 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
13,966 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
Schools
66 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 11 secondary schools. Wainscott Primary School is the nearest published school at 288 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
841 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 358 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.