Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. Higham Primary School is the nearest published school at 456 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME3 7JJ
Higham & Shorne · Gravesham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Higham & Shorne
- Local authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME3 7JJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2010
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 7
- Latitude
- 51.423194
- Longitude
- 0.469707
- British National Grid easting
- 571,805
- British National Grid northing
- 172,247
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
- E00123204
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 456 m
Higham Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Gad's Hill School
Other independent school
- 2.5 km
Abbey Court Foundation Special School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 161
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 65
- Anti social behaviour 27
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Other theft 15
- Vehicle crime 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME3 7 residents
- 6,636
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
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
2.2 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
3.3 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
3.4 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
School Lane Telephone Box
BCT · Lower Higham
- 0.3 miles
Higham Rail Station
RLY · Higham
- 0.3 miles
Higham Rail Station
RSE · Higham
- 0.3 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Higham
- 0.3 miles
School Lane Telephone Box
BCT · Lower 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
161 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 65 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.