Property market
The five-year median is £515,000 from 1 recorded sale in ME3 8DH. 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 8DH
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 8DH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 8
- Latitude
- 51.455997
- Longitude
- 0.529015
- British National Grid easting
- 575,802
- British National Grid northing
- 176,035
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Strood Rural · E05014468
- Parish or community
- E04001131
- Westminster constituency
- Rochester and Strood · E14001447
- Output area
- E00081240
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 003A · E01016073
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 003 · E02003316
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
25 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Pips View, 6a, Main Road, Cooling, Rochester, ME3 8DH | 31 August 2023 | £515,000 |
| Belroc, Main Road, Cooling, Rochester, ME3 8DH | 9 January 2021 | £680,000 |
| Pickwick, Main Road, Cooling, Rochester, ME3 8DH | 10 July 2020 | £420,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.2 km
St Helen's Church of England Primary School, Cliffe
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.4 km
Leigh Academy High Halstow
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Cliffe Woods Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Other theft 2
- Drugs 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 68
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- ME3 8 residents
- 10,133
33 female, 35 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 0.7% 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 10.7%
- 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
3
within 5 km
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
3.3 km
ST. WERBURGH MED.PRACTICE
98 BELLS LANE, HOO, ST WERBURGH, ROCHESTER, ME3 9HU
ODS code G82233
4.3 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
TILLEY CLOSE, MAIN ROAD, HOO, ROCHESTER, ME3 9AE
ODS code G82077
4.5 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
- 1.4 miles
Village Club
BCT · Cliffe
- 1.4 miles
Village Club
BCT · Cliffe
- 1.4 miles
The Six Bells
BCT · Cliffe
- 1.4 miles
Norwood Close
BCT · Cliffe
- 1.4 miles
Norwood Close
BCT · Cliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 003A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,921 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Helen's Church of England Primary School, Cliffe is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.