Schools
72 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 14 secondary schools. Rivermead School is the nearest published school at 448 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME7 1FZ
Gillingham North · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gillingham North
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham
- Postcode district
- ME7
- Postcode sector
- ME7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME7 1FZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME7
- Postcode sector
- ME7 1
- Latitude
- 51.395927
- Longitude
- 0.555590
- British National Grid easting
- 577,881
- British National Grid northing
- 169,420
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Gillingham North · E05014454
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham · E14001246
- Output area
- E00189696
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 009E · E01035294
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 009 · E02003322
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 ME7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 72
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 14
- 448 m
Rivermead School
Academy special converter
- 522 m
Waterfront UTC
University technical college
- 527 m
Burnt Oak Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,601
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,740
- Anti social behaviour 565
- Criminal damage and arson 474
- Other theft 333
- Shoplifting 325
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME7 1 residents
- 12,912
6 female, 1 male
Age bands in ME7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 19.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.9%
2,528 residents
2,465 residents
4,046 residents
2,626 residents
1,136 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME7 1 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.
GP practices
21
within 5 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
423 m
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
1.6 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
1.7 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
1.7 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
2.1 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
2.5 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
TILLEY CLOSE, MAIN ROAD, HOO, ROCHESTER, ME3 9AE
ODS code G82077
2.7 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
2.7 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
2.9 km
ST. WERBURGH MED.PRACTICE
98 BELLS LANE, HOO, ST WERBURGH, ROCHESTER, ME3 9HU
ODS code G82233
3.1 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
3.1 km
WALTHAM ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
4A WALTHAM ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6XQ
ODS code G82184
3.2 km
EASTCOURT LANE SURGERY
52 EASTCOURT LANE, TWYDALL, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6EY
ODS code G82600
3.2 km
PUMP LANE SURGERY
13 PUMP LANE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 7AA
ODS code G82635
3.9 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
4.0 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
4.1 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
4.3 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
4.3 km
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
4.7 km
MAIDSTONE RD RAINHAM SURGERY
53A-53B MAIDSTONE ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0DP
ODS code G82180
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Milner Road
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.1 miles
Milner Road
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.2 miles
Asda
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.2 miles
The Strand
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.2 miles
The Strand
BCT · Gillingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 009E, 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
20,854 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 32
- 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
4,601 published events cover 12 months, averaging 383.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,740 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.