Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 3 secondary schools. Gad's Hill School is the nearest published school at 436 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME3 7BH
Higham & Shorne · Gravesham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME3 7BH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 7
- Latitude
- 51.415025
- Longitude
- 0.456164
- British National Grid easting
- 570,894
- British National Grid northing
- 171,307
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
- E00123199
- Lower layer super output area
- Gravesham 010A · E01024265
- 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
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Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Darby Gardens, Higham, Rochester, ME3 7BH | 28 August 2020 | £407,500 |
| 10, Darby Gardens, Higham, Rochester, ME3 7BH | 18 July 2014 | £390,000 |
| 12, Darby Gardens, Higham, Rochester, ME3 7BH | 14 January 2011 | £230,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 3
- 436 m
Gad's Hill School
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
Higham Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Shorne Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 169
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 66
- Anti social behaviour 27
- Other theft 17
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Vehicle crime 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- ME3 7 residents
- 6,636
13 female, 8 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 0.3% 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
4
within 5 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
3.0 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
3.2 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
3.2 km
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
3.5 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
Forge Lane Shops
BCT · Higham
- 0.1 miles
Forge Lane Shops
BCT · Higham
- 0.2 miles
Gardeners Arms
BCT · Higham
- 0.2 miles
Pear Tree Lane
BCT · Higham
- 0.2 miles
Forge Lane
BCT · Higham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gravesham 010A, 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
25,590 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Recorded crime
169 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 66 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.