Schools
78 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 13 secondary schools. Maritime Academy is the nearest published school at 610 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME2 4WS
Strood Rural · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 4WS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2015
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME2
- Postcode sector
- ME2 4
- Latitude
- 51.398735
- Longitude
- 0.508042
- British National Grid easting
- 574,563
- British National Grid northing
- 169,618
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
- E00081615
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 004B · E01016147
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 78
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 13
- 610 m
Maritime Academy
Free schools
- 639 m
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 848 m
Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,732
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 986
- Anti social behaviour 419
- Shoplifting 327
- Criminal damage and arson 212
- Other theft 203
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME2 4 residents
- 7,736
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
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.
GP practices
20
within 5 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
1.0 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
1.9 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
2.0 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
2.3 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
2.6 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
3.0 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
3.0 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
3.0 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
3.0 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
3.1 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
3.5 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
3.7 km
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
4.0 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
TILLEY CLOSE, MAIN ROAD, HOO, ROCHESTER, ME3 9AE
ODS code G82077
4.2 km
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
4.2 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
4.3 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
4.3 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
4.7 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
4.7 km
ST. WERBURGH MED.PRACTICE
98 BELLS LANE, HOO, ST WERBURGH, ROCHESTER, ME3 9HU
ODS code G82233
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
Whitewall Road
BCT · Strood
- 0.1 miles
Whitewall Road
BCT · Strood
- 0.2 miles
Pender House
BCT · Medway City Estate
- 0.2 miles
Wingrove Drive
BCT · Strood
- 0.2 miles
Wingrove Drive
BCT · Strood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 004B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,354 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
2,732 published events cover 12 months, averaging 227.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 986 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.