Property market
The five-year median is £350,000 from 1 recorded sale in ME5 0FS. 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.
ME5 0FS
Wayfield & Weeds Wood · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chatham
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford
- Postcode district
- ME5
- Postcode sector
- ME5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME5 0FS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME5
- Postcode sector
- ME5 0
- Latitude
- 51.362567
- Longitude
- 0.534639
- British National Grid easting
- 576,552
- British National Grid northing
- 165,660
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Wayfield & Weeds Wood · E05014472
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford · E14001157
- Output area
- E00081214
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 027C · E01016066
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 027 · E02003340
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 ME5
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Victor Close, Chatham, ME5 0FS | 25 June 2025 | £350,000 |
| 1, Victor Close, Chatham, ME5 0FS | 24 October 2007 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 91
- Primary
- 57
- Secondary
- 17
- 436 m
Wayfield Primary School
Academy converter
- 652 m
Kingfisher Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 750 m
The Victory Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,734
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,521
- Anti social behaviour 536
- Shoplifting 366
- Criminal damage and arson 322
- Other theft 245
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME5 0 residents
- 12,208
Age bands in ME5 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.9%
2,468 residents
1,338 residents
3,179 residents
3,287 residents
2,096 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
25
within 5 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
281 m
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
990 m
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
1.3 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
1.3 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
1.7 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
1.9 km
KING GEORGE ROAD SURGERY
52A KING GEORGE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0TT
ODS code G82108
1.9 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
1.9 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
2.4 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
2.5 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
2.8 km
REACH HEALTHCARE
WALDERSLADE VILLAGE SURGERY, 62A ROBIN HOOD LANE, CHATHAM, ME5 9LD
ODS code G82161
2.9 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
3.0 km
EASTCOURT LANE SURGERY
52 EASTCOURT LANE, TWYDALL, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6EY
ODS code G82600
3.2 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
3.7 km
WALTHAM ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
4A WALTHAM ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6XQ
ODS code G82184
3.7 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
3.8 km
PUMP LANE SURGERY
13 PUMP LANE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 7AA
ODS code G82635
3.9 km
WIGMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
114 WOODSIDE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0PW
ODS code G82226
3.9 km
PARKWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
119 LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9RR
ODS code G82721
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 25 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
- 0.0 miles
Stalin Avenue
BCT · Wayfield
- 0.0 miles
Churchill Avenue
BCT · Wayfield
- 0.0 miles
Stalin Avenue
BCT · Wayfield
- 0.1 miles
Barnfield
BCT · Wayfield
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Avenue
BCT · Wayfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 027C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,982 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
91 open schools are in scope, including 57 primary and 17 secondary schools. Wayfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 436 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,734 published events cover 12 months, averaging 311.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,521 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.