Property market
The five-year median is £453,748 from 10 recorded sales in ME3 9UW. 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 9UW
Hoo St Werburgh & High Halstow · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rochester
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME3 9UW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME3
- Postcode sector
- ME3 9
- Latitude
- 51.422345
- Longitude
- 0.568629
- British National Grid easting
- 578,685
- British National Grid northing
- 172,389
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Hoo St Werburgh & High Halstow · E05014457
- Parish or community
- E04001136
- Westminster constituency
- Rochester and Strood · E14001447
- Output area
- E00189758
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 003G · E01035287
- 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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Plough Close, Hoo, Rochester, ME3 9UW | 31 January 2024 | £452,500 |
| 8, Plough Close, Hoo, Rochester, ME3 9UW | 20 December 2023 | £454,995 |
| 6, Plough Close, Hoo, Rochester, ME3 9UW | 14 December 2023 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.0 km
Hoo St Werburgh Primary School and the Marlborough
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Leigh Academy Hundred of Hoo
Academy sponsor led
- 2.7 km
St Mary's Island Church of England (Aided) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 597
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 279
- Anti social behaviour 130
- Criminal damage and arson 56
- Other theft 34
- Other crime 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME3 9 residents
- 11,742
Age bands in ME3 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
2,157 residents
1,102 residents
3,044 residents
2,941 residents
2,467 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
- 30%
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
7
within 5 km straight-line
ST. WERBURGH MED.PRACTICE
98 BELLS LANE, HOO, ST WERBURGH, ROCHESTER, ME3 9HU
ODS code G82233
427 m
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
TILLEY CLOSE, MAIN ROAD, HOO, ROCHESTER, ME3 9AE
ODS code G82077
796 m
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
2.7 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
3.4 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
4.7 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
4.7 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
The Five Bells
BCT · Hoo St Werburgh
- 0.3 miles
Kingsnorth Close
BCT · Hoo St Werburgh
- 0.3 miles
The Five Bells
BCT · Hoo St Werburgh
- 0.3 miles
Lower Bells Lane
BCT · Hoo St Werburgh
- 0.3 miles
Kingsnorth Close
BCT · Hoo St Werburgh
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 003G, 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
18,510 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hoo St Werburgh Primary School and the Marlborough is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
597 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 279 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.