Property market
The five-year median is £531,750 from 4 recorded sales in ME3 8BS. 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.
ME3 8BS
Strood Rural · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rochester
- Ward
- Strood Rural
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME3 8BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 8
- Latitude
- 51.411889
- Longitude
- 0.505727
- British National Grid easting
- 574,352
- British National Grid northing
- 171,075
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
- E00081623
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 004C · E01016148
- 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 ME3
Property
32 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Niven Close, Wainscott, Rochester, ME3 8BS | 3 July 2026 | £480,000 |
| 5, Niven Close, Wainscott, Rochester, ME3 8BS | 31 January 2025 | £530,000 |
| 4, Niven Close, Wainscott, Rochester, ME3 8BS | 12 August 2024 | £580,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 62
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 8
- 565 m
Wainscott Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 804 m
Hilltop Primary School
Academy converter
- 866 m
Maritime Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 915
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 397
- Anti social behaviour 150
- Criminal damage and arson 90
- Other theft 59
- Vehicle crime 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 47
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- ME3 8 residents
- 10,133
21 female, 26 male
Age bands in ME3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.8%
1,923 residents
1,120 residents
2,567 residents
2,709 residents
1,800 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME3 8 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
15
within 5 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
1.8 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
2.3 km
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
2.6 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
2.7 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
3.5 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
3.7 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
TILLEY CLOSE, MAIN ROAD, HOO, ROCHESTER, ME3 9AE
ODS code G82077
3.7 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
3.8 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
4.0 km
ST. WERBURGH MED.PRACTICE
98 BELLS LANE, HOO, ST WERBURGH, ROCHESTER, ME3 9HU
ODS code G82233
4.2 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
4.2 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
4.3 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
4.4 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
4.7 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
4.8 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
Jarrett Avenue
BCT · Wainscott
- 0.1 miles
Jarrett Avenue
BCT · Wainscott
- 0.1 miles
Greenfields Close
BCT · Wainscott
- 0.1 miles
Greenfields Close
BCT · Wainscott
- 0.1 miles
Hollywood Lane Middle
BCT · Wainscott
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 004C, 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
26,955 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
62 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 8 secondary schools. Wainscott Primary School is the nearest published school at 565 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
915 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 397 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.