Property market
The five-year median is £185,000 from 13 recorded sales in ME2 4WQ. 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 4WQ
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME2 4WQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME2
- Postcode sector
- ME2 4
- Latitude
- 51.396334
- Longitude
- 0.498781
- British National Grid easting
- 573,928
- British National Grid northing
- 169,329
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
- E00081552
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 006B · E01016136
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 006 · E02003319
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
72 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Regent House, Flat 42, Station Road, Strood, Rochester, ME2 4WQ | 30 April 2026 | £170,000 |
| Regent House, Flat 22, Station Road, Strood, Rochester, ME2 4WQ | 7 February 2025 | £190,000 |
| Regent House, Flat 3, Station Road, Strood, Rochester, ME2 4WQ | 24 January 2025 | £168,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 76
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 13
- 405 m
All Faiths Children's Academy
Academy converter
- 568 m
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 665 m
Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,228
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,251
- Anti social behaviour 474
- Shoplifting 317
- Criminal damage and arson 262
- Other theft 233
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 151
- Postcode households
- 77
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- ME2 4 residents
- 7,736
82 female, 69 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 2% 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
18
within 5 km straight-line
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
405 m
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
1.2 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
1.8 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
2.3 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
J WILLIAMS HEALTHY LC, THE PENTAGON, MILITARY RD, CHATHAM, ME4 4HP
ODS code G82631
2.4 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
2.8 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
2.9 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
3.0 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
3.2 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
3.5 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
3.6 km
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
4.1 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
4.2 km
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
4.2 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
4.5 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
4.6 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
4.7 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
TILLEY CLOSE, MAIN ROAD, HOO, ROCHESTER, ME3 9AE
ODS code G82077
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Strood Rail Station
RSE · Strood
- 0.1 miles
Strood Rail Station
RLY · Strood
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Strood
- 0.1 miles
Strood Rail Station
RSE · Strood
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Strood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 006B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,929 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 72
- 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
76 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 13 secondary schools. All Faiths Children's Academy is the nearest published school at 405 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,228 published events cover 12 months, averaging 269 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,251 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.