Property market
The five-year median is £283,750 from 4 recorded sales in ME8 7BD. 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.
ME8 7BD
Rainham North · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gillingham
- Ward
- Rainham North
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham
- Postcode district
- ME8
- Postcode sector
- ME8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME8 7BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME8
- Postcode sector
- ME8 7
- Latitude
- 51.372215
- Longitude
- 0.597951
- British National Grid easting
- 580,921
- British National Grid northing
- 166,887
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Rainham North · E05014461
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham · E14001246
- Output area
- E00081700
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 023C · E01016166
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 023 · E02003336
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 ME8
Property
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Hereford Close, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 7BD | 9 March 2026 | £270,000 |
| 13, Hereford Close, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 7BD | 23 September 2024 | £297,500 |
| 1, Hereford Close, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 7BD | 14 February 2023 | £320,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 49
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 9
- 159 m
Thames View Primary School
Academy converter
- 233 m
Rainham Mark Grammar School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Twydall Primary School and Nursery
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,769
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 643
- Anti social behaviour 265
- Criminal damage and arson 180
- Shoplifting 159
- Other theft 148
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- ME8 7 residents
- 8,236
29 female, 21 male
Age bands in ME8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.6%
1,457 residents
790 residents
2,139 residents
2,149 residents
2,130 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME8 7 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
- 38.9%
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
18
within 5 km
PUMP LANE SURGERY
13 PUMP LANE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 7AA
ODS code G82635
762 m
WALTHAM ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
4A WALTHAM ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6XQ
ODS code G82184
980 m
THAMES AVE SURGERY
2 THAMES AVENUE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9BW
ODS code G82154
1.0 km
MAIDSTONE RD RAINHAM SURGERY
53A-53B MAIDSTONE ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0DP
ODS code G82180
1.1 km
ORCHARD FAMILY PRACTICE
THE RED SUITE, 103-107 HIGH STREET, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 8AA
ODS code G82162
1.3 km
EASTCOURT LANE SURGERY
52 EASTCOURT LANE, TWYDALL, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6EY
ODS code G82600
1.3 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
2.3 km
WIGMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
114 WOODSIDE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0PW
ODS code G82226
2.3 km
LONG CATLIS ROAD SURGERY
PARKWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, ME8 9PR
ODS code G82737
2.7 km
PARKWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
119 LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9RR
ODS code G82721
3.0 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
3.2 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
3.4 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
3.7 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
3.9 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
4.1 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
4.5 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
4.7 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
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
Monmouth Close
BCT · Twydall
- 0.1 miles
Ely Close
BCT · Twydall
- 0.1 miles
Truro Close
BCT · Twydall
- 0.1 miles
Truro Close
BCT · Twydall
- 0.2 miles
Pump Lane roundabout
BCT · Twydall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 023C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,550 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
49 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 9 secondary schools. Thames View Primary School is the nearest published school at 159 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,769 published events cover 12 months, averaging 147.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 643 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.