Property market
The five-year median is £525,000 from 3 recorded sales in ME8 8RS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Swale is £298,394 in June 2026, up 4.5% year on year.
ME8 8RS
Hartlip, Newington and Upchurch · Swale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gillingham
- Local authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey
- Postcode district
- ME8
- Postcode sector
- ME8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME8 8RS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME8
- Postcode sector
- ME8 8
- Latitude
- 51.370017
- Longitude
- 0.625917
- British National Grid easting
- 582,876
- British National Grid northing
- 166,712
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Swale · E07000113
- Electoral ward
- Hartlip, Newington and Upchurch · E05009550
- Parish or community
- E04005077
- Westminster constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey · E14001474
- Output area
- E00124724
- Lower layer super output area
- Swale 008C · E01024572
- Middle layer super output area
- Swale 008 · E02005122
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
82 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 37, Homefield Drive, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 8RS | 17 January 2025 | £525,000 |
| 7, Homefield Drive, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 8RS | 28 July 2023 | £530,000 |
| 25, Homefield Drive, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 8RS | 31 August 2022 | £465,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 5
- 691 m
Riverside Primary School
Academy converter
- 894 m
Leigh Academy Rainham
Free schools
- 1.8 km
St Margaret's Church of England Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 861
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 357
- Anti social behaviour 123
- Criminal damage and arson 84
- Other theft 63
- Shoplifting 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 92
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- ME8 8 residents
- 10,284
48 female, 44 male
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
This postcode contained 0.9% 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.
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
- 25%
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
10
within 5 km
ORCHARD FAMILY PRACTICE
THE RED SUITE, 103-107 HIGH STREET, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 8AA
ODS code G82162
1.4 km
THAMES AVE SURGERY
2 THAMES AVENUE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9BW
ODS code G82154
1.8 km
MAIDSTONE RD RAINHAM SURGERY
53A-53B MAIDSTONE ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0DP
ODS code G82180
2.0 km
PUMP LANE SURGERY
13 PUMP LANE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 7AA
ODS code G82635
2.5 km
WALTHAM ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
4A WALTHAM ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6XQ
ODS code G82184
2.9 km
LONG CATLIS ROAD SURGERY
PARKWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, ME8 9PR
ODS code G82737
3.2 km
WIGMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
114 WOODSIDE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0PW
ODS code G82226
3.3 km
EASTCOURT LANE SURGERY
52 EASTCOURT LANE, TWYDALL, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6EY
ODS code G82600
3.3 km
PARKWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
119 LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9RR
ODS code G82721
3.6 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
4.2 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
Three Sisters
BCT · Otterham Quay
- 0.1 miles
Three Sisters
BCT · Otterham Quay
- 0.3 miles
Harwood Road
BCT · Rainham
- 0.3 miles
Otterham Quay
BCT · Otterham Quay
- 0.3 miles
Otterham Quay
BCT · Otterham Quay
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swale 008C, 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
17,088 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
28 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 5 secondary schools. Riverside Primary School is the nearest published school at 691 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
861 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 357 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.