Schools
65 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 12 secondary schools. Oaklands School is the nearest published school at 449 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME5 9BF
Lordswood & Walderslade · 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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME5 9BF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME5
- Postcode sector
- ME5 9
- Latitude
- 51.343191
- Longitude
- 0.520201
- British National Grid easting
- 575,621
- British National Grid northing
- 163,471
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Lordswood & Walderslade · E05014458
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford · E14001157
- Output area
- E00081743
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 037A · E01016168
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 037 · E02003350
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 75, Chestnut Avenue, Chatham, ME5 9BF | 25 June 2007 | £224,000 |
| 75, Chestnut Avenue, Chatham, ME5 9BF | 15 June 2005 | £192,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 65
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 12
- 449 m
Oaklands School
Academy converter
- 574 m
Walderslade Primary School
Academy converter
- 692 m
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,651
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 689
- Anti social behaviour 235
- Criminal damage and arson 164
- Shoplifting 132
- Other theft 130
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- ME5 9 residents
- 11,828
4 female, 1 male
Age bands in ME5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.6%
1,825 residents
1,123 residents
2,707 residents
3,265 residents
2,455 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME5 9 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
- 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
15
within 5 km
KING GEORGE ROAD SURGERY
52A KING GEORGE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0TT
ODS code G82108
647 m
REACH HEALTHCARE
WALDERSLADE VILLAGE SURGERY, 62A ROBIN HOOD LANE, CHATHAM, ME5 9LD
ODS code G82161
663 m
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
2.0 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
2.1 km
PHOENIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
33 BELL LANE, BURHAM, ROCHESTER, ME1 3SX
ODS code G82234
3.1 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
3.3 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
3.3 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
3.6 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
4.0 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
4.0 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
4.2 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
4.4 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
4.8 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
4.8 km
WIGMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
114 WOODSIDE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0PW
ODS code G82226
4.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Larkspur Road
BCT · Weeds Wood
- 0.1 miles
Larkspur Road
BCT · Weeds Wood
- 0.1 miles
York Avenue
BCT · Weeds Wood
- 0.1 miles
York Avenue
BCT · Weeds Wood
- 0.1 miles
Amanda Close
BCT · Weeds Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 037A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,227 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
1,651 published events cover 12 months, averaging 137.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 689 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.