Property market
The five-year median is £446,250 from 56 recorded sales in ME3 8GY. 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 8GY
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 8GY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 8
- Latitude
- 51.437391
- Longitude
- 0.494114
- British National Grid easting
- 573,448
- British National Grid northing
- 173,883
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Strood Rural · E05014468
- Parish or community
- E04001130
- Westminster constituency
- Rochester and Strood · E14001447
- Output area
- E00081591
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 002B · E01016144
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 002 · E02003315
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
58 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Oakleigh Grove, Cliffe Woods, Rochester, ME3 8GY | 3 July 2026 | £570,000 |
| 42, Oakleigh Grove, Cliffe Woods, Rochester, ME3 8GY | 22 May 2026 | £480,000 |
| 16, Oakleigh Grove, Cliffe Woods, Rochester, ME3 8GY | 17 April 2026 | £570,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 704 m
City of Rochester School
Other independent special school
- 765 m
Cliffe Woods Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
St Helen's Church of England Primary School, Cliffe
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 92
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 41
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Vehicle crime 10
- Burglary 7
- Other theft 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME3 8 residents
- 10,133
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
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 straight-line
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
399 m
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
4.5 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
4.6 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
TILLEY CLOSE, MAIN ROAD, HOO, ROCHESTER, ME3 9AE
ODS code G82077
4.8 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Tennyson Avenue
BCT · Cliffe Woods
- 0.4 miles
Woodside Green
BCT · Cliffe Woods
- 0.4 miles
Woodside Green
BCT · Cliffe Woods
- 0.4 miles
Primary School
BCT · Cliffe Woods
- 0.4 miles
Primary School
BCT · Cliffe Woods
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 002B, 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
23,297 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 10
- Medium risk addresses
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 9
- 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
22 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. City of Rochester School is the nearest published school at 704 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
92 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 41 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.