Property market
The five-year median is £341,500 from 8 recorded sales in ME4 6BF. 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.
ME4 6BF
Fort Horsted · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chatham
- Ward
- Fort Horsted
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford
- Postcode district
- ME4
- Postcode sector
- ME4 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME4 6BF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2012
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME4
- Postcode sector
- ME4 6
- Latitude
- 51.357059
- Longitude
- 0.511439
- British National Grid easting
- 574,958
- British National Grid northing
- 164,992
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Fort Horsted · E05014452
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford · E14001157
- Output area
- E00189668
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 033B · E01016122
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 033 · E02003346
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 ME4
Property
42 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Pilots View, Chatham, ME4 6BF | 29 January 2026 | £320,000 |
| 5, Pilots View, Chatham, ME4 6BF | 24 October 2025 | £305,000 |
| 7, Pilots View, Chatham, ME4 6BF | 18 March 2025 | £412,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 84
- Primary
- 55
- Secondary
- 12
- 783 m
Horsted Infant School
Community school
- 809 m
Horsted Junior School
Community school
- 841 m
Warren Wood Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,347
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 872
- Shoplifting 370
- Anti social behaviour 304
- Criminal damage and arson 209
- Other theft 151
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 120
- Postcode households
- 41
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- ME4 6 residents
- 10,552
60 female, 60 male
Age bands in ME4 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.2%
2,037 residents
1,333 residents
3,240 residents
2,626 residents
1,401 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME4 6 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
- 48.8%
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
21
within 5 km
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
593 m
KING GEORGE ROAD SURGERY
52A KING GEORGE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0TT
ODS code G82108
1.0 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
1.6 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
1.7 km
REACH HEALTHCARE
WALDERSLADE VILLAGE SURGERY, 62A ROBIN HOOD LANE, CHATHAM, ME5 9LD
ODS code G82161
2.3 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
2.6 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
2.7 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
2.7 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
2.7 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
2.8 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
3.0 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
3.7 km
PHOENIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
33 BELL LANE, BURHAM, ROCHESTER, ME1 3SX
ODS code G82234
3.8 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
4.0 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
4.5 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
4.5 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FERRY ROAD, HALLING, ROCHESTER, ME2 1NP
ODS code G82106
4.5 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
4.6 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
4.7 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
4.9 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Horsted Way
BCT · Rochester
- 0.1 miles
Horsted Way
BCT · Rochester
- 0.1 miles
Horsted Way
BCT · Rochester
- 0.2 miles
The Ridgeway
BCT · Chatham
- 0.2 miles
Vale Drive Play Area
BCT · Davis Estate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 033B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,444 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 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
84 open schools are in scope, including 55 primary and 12 secondary schools. Horsted Infant School is the nearest published school at 783 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,347 published events cover 12 months, averaging 195.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 872 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.