Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 5 secondary schools. Leigh Academy Rainham is the nearest published school at 143 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME8 8GY
Rainham North · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rainham North
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham
- Postcode district
- ME8
- Postcode sector
- ME8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME8 8GY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME8
- Postcode sector
- ME8 8
- Latitude
- 51.361467
- Longitude
- 0.622195
- British National Grid easting
- 582,651
- British National Grid northing
- 165,752
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
- E00081391
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 025E · E01016102
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 025 · E02003338
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 5
- 143 m
Leigh Academy Rainham
Free schools
- 502 m
Riverside Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Miers Court Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 921
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 384
- Anti social behaviour 125
- Criminal damage and arson 95
- Other theft 70
- Shoplifting 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME8 8 residents
- 10,284
Age bands in ME8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.8%
1,908 residents
1,058 residents
2,720 residents
2,525 residents
1,662 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.
GP practices
10
within 5 km
ORCHARD FAMILY PRACTICE
THE RED SUITE, 103-107 HIGH STREET, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 8AA
ODS code G82162
908 m
THAMES AVE SURGERY
2 THAMES AVENUE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9BW
ODS code G82154
1.3 km
MAIDSTONE RD RAINHAM SURGERY
53A-53B MAIDSTONE ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0DP
ODS code G82180
1.5 km
LONG CATLIS ROAD SURGERY
PARKWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, ME8 9PR
ODS code G82737
2.4 km
PUMP LANE SURGERY
13 PUMP LANE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 7AA
ODS code G82635
2.4 km
WIGMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
114 WOODSIDE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0PW
ODS code G82226
2.5 km
PARKWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
119 LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9RR
ODS code G82721
2.8 km
WALTHAM ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
4A WALTHAM ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6XQ
ODS code G82184
3.0 km
EASTCOURT LANE SURGERY
52 EASTCOURT LANE, TWYDALL, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6EY
ODS code G82600
3.2 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
4.3 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Leigh Academy
BCT · Rainham
- 0.1 miles
Leigh Academy
BCT · Rainham
- 0.1 miles
Blackthorne Road
BCT · Rainham
- 0.1 miles
Otterham Quay Lane
BCT · Rainham
- 0.1 miles
Otterham Quay Lane
BCT · Rainham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 025E, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,049 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
921 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 384 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.