Rainham South East · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Orchard Cottage, Meresborough Road, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 8QJ | 4 January 2007 | £450,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Miers Court Primary School
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Leigh Academy Rainham
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Census 2021
10 female, 8 male
1,908 residents
1,058 residents
2,720 residents
2,525 residents
1,662 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME8 8 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
10
within 5 km
THE RED SUITE, 103-107 HIGH STREET, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 8AA
ODS code G82162
1.1 km
2 THAMES AVENUE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9BW
ODS code G82154
1.4 km
53A-53B MAIDSTONE ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0DP
ODS code G82180
1.5 km
PARKWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, ME8 9PR
ODS code G82737
1.7 km
114 WOODSIDE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0PW
ODS code G82226
2.0 km
119 LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9RR
ODS code G82721
2.1 km
13 PUMP LANE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 7AA
ODS code G82635
2.4 km
4A WALTHAM ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6XQ
ODS code G82184
3.2 km
52 EASTCOURT LANE, TWYDALL, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6EY
ODS code G82600
3.3 km
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
4.4 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.
Lonsdale Drive
BCT · Rainham
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Otterham Quay Lane
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English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 032B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,481 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
28 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 5 secondary schools. Miers Court Primary School is the nearest published school at 744 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
948 published events cover 12 months, averaging 79 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 385 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.