Property market
The five-year median is £429,000 from 6 recorded sales in ME3 7BG. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Gravesham is £345,369 in June 2026, up 2.4% year on year.
ME3 7BG
Higham & Shorne · Gravesham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME3 7BG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 7
- Latitude
- 51.418532
- Longitude
- 0.457014
- British National Grid easting
- 570,940
- British National Grid northing
- 171,699
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Gravesham · E07000109
- Electoral ward
- Higham & Shorne · E05014915
- Parish or community
- E04004936
- Westminster constituency
- Gravesham · E14001254
- Output area
- E00123206
- Lower layer super output area
- Gravesham 010C · E01024267
- Middle layer super output area
- Gravesham 010 · E02005064
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 ME3
Property
45 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Fairview Drive, Higham, Rochester, ME3 7BG | 23 March 2026 | £435,000 |
| 1, Fairview Drive, Higham, Rochester, ME3 7BG | 29 August 2025 | £435,000 |
| 21, Fairview Drive, Higham, Rochester, ME3 7BG | 25 April 2025 | £423,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 691 m
Higham Primary School
Community school
- 819 m
Gad's Hill School
Other independent school
- 1.7 km
Shorne Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 170
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 67
- Anti social behaviour 31
- Other theft 16
- Criminal damage and arson 15
- Vehicle crime 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 88
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- ME3 7 residents
- 6,636
43 female, 45 male
Age bands in ME3 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.7%
1,009 residents
682 residents
1,383 residents
1,839 residents
1,524 residents
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME3 7 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
5
within 5 km
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
3.3 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
3.3 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
3.4 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
3.5 km
ROCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
115 ROCHESTER ROAD, GRAVESEND, DA12 2HU
ODS code G82648
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
- 0.2 miles
School Lane Shops
BCT · Higham
- 0.2 miles
Forge Lane Shops
BCT · Higham
- 0.2 miles
Forge Lane Shops
BCT · Higham
- 0.2 miles
Gardeners Arms
BCT · Higham
- 0.3 miles
Hollytree Drive
BCT · Higham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gravesham 010C, 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
21,180 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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
- 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
33 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. Higham Primary School is the nearest published school at 691 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
170 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 67 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.