Property market
The five-year median is £217,000 from 13 recorded sales in ME7 5LP. 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.
ME7 5LP
Gillingham South · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gillingham
- Ward
- Gillingham South
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham
- Postcode district
- ME7
- Postcode sector
- ME7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME7 5LP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME7
- Postcode sector
- ME7 5
- Latitude
- 51.376362
- Longitude
- 0.547946
- British National Grid easting
- 577,425
- British National Grid northing
- 167,226
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Gillingham South · E05014455
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham · E14001246
- Output area
- E00081129
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 016C · E01016047
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 016 · E02003329
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
Property
94 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 53, Milton Road, Gillingham, ME7 5LP | 13 February 2026 | £170,000 |
| 49, Milton Road, Gillingham, ME7 5LP | 12 January 2026 | £242,000 |
| 63, Milton Road, Gillingham, ME7 5LP | 18 July 2025 | £180,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 95
- Primary
- 61
- Secondary
- 17
- 119 m
Byron Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 295 m
Chatham Grammar
Academy converter
- 381 m
Alchemy School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,150
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,390
- Anti social behaviour 1,071
- Criminal damage and arson 716
- Other theft 548
- Shoplifting 501
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 123
- Postcode households
- 42
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- ME7 5 residents
- 9,891
72 female, 51 male
Age bands in ME7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 10%
2,113 residents
1,163 residents
3,173 residents
2,250 residents
962 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME7 5 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
- 59.1%
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
28
within 5 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
668 m
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
719 m
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
794 m
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
900 m
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
945 m
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
1.3 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
1.4 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
2.0 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
2.1 km
EASTCOURT LANE SURGERY
52 EASTCOURT LANE, TWYDALL, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6EY
ODS code G82600
2.2 km
WALTHAM ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
4A WALTHAM ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6XQ
ODS code G82184
2.5 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
2.6 km
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
2.7 km
PUMP LANE SURGERY
13 PUMP LANE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 7AA
ODS code G82635
3.1 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
3.2 km
MARITIME HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S ISLAND SURGERY, EDGEWAY, ST MARYS ISLAND, CHATHAM, ME4 3EP
ODS code G82744
3.5 km
KING GEORGE ROAD SURGERY
52A KING GEORGE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0TT
ODS code G82108
3.7 km
WIGMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
114 WOODSIDE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0PW
ODS code G82226
3.9 km
MAIDSTONE RD RAINHAM SURGERY
53A-53B MAIDSTONE ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0DP
ODS code G82180
4.0 km
THAMES AVE SURGERY
2 THAMES AVENUE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9BW
ODS code G82154
4.1 km
Showing 20 of 28 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
Rock Avenue
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.1 miles
Rock Avenue
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.1 miles
Byron Road
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.1 miles
Byron Primary School
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.1 miles
Byron Primary School
BCT · Gillingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 016C, 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
7,195 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
Schools
95 open schools are in scope, including 61 primary and 17 secondary schools. Byron Primary School is the nearest published school at 119 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8,150 published events cover 12 months, averaging 679.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,390 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.