Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 8 secondary schools. Deanwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 338 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ME8 9WQ
Rainham South East · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rainham South East
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham
- Postcode district
- ME8
- Postcode sector
- ME8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME8 9WQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2002
- Terminated
- 1 September 2003
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME8
- Postcode sector
- ME8 9
- Latitude
- 51.339626
- Longitude
- 0.591268
- British National Grid easting
- 580,584
- British National Grid northing
- 163,247
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Rainham South East · E05014462
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham · E14001246
- Output area
- E00081387
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 036C · E01016100
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 036 · E02003349
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
- 42
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 8
- 338 m
Deanwood Primary School
Academy converter
- 362 m
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 988 m
Fairview Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 783
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 263
- Anti social behaviour 156
- Criminal damage and arson 71
- Shoplifting 69
- Other theft 63
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ME8 9 residents
- 11,965
Age bands in ME8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.9%
2,256 residents
1,280 residents
3,172 residents
3,187 residents
2,943 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
PARKWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
119 LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9RR
ODS code G82721
632 m
LONG CATLIS ROAD SURGERY
PARKWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, LONG CATLIS ROAD, RAINHAM, ME8 9PR
ODS code G82737
1.0 km
WIGMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
114 WOODSIDE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0PW
ODS code G82226
1.4 km
MAIDSTONE RD RAINHAM SURGERY
53A-53B MAIDSTONE ROAD, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0DP
ODS code G82180
2.6 km
THAMES AVE SURGERY
2 THAMES AVENUE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 9BW
ODS code G82154
2.8 km
ORCHARD FAMILY PRACTICE
THE RED SUITE, 103-107 HIGH STREET, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 8AA
ODS code G82162
2.9 km
PUMP LANE SURGERY
13 PUMP LANE, RAINHAM, GILLINGHAM, ME8 7AA
ODS code G82635
3.1 km
EASTCOURT LANE SURGERY
52 EASTCOURT LANE, TWYDALL, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6EY
ODS code G82600
3.6 km
WALTHAM ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
4A WALTHAM ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME8 6XQ
ODS code G82184
3.8 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
4.5 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
4.5 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
4.6 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
4.6 km
REACH HEALTHCARE
WALDERSLADE VILLAGE SURGERY, 62A ROBIN HOOD LANE, CHATHAM, ME5 9LD
ODS code G82161
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hawbeck Road
BCT · Parkwood
- 0.0 miles
Hawbeck Road
BCT · Parkwood
- 0.2 miles
Grain Road
BCT · Parkwood
- 0.2 miles
Grain Road
BCT · Parkwood
- 0.2 miles
St Augustine School
BCT · Parkwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 036C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,830 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
783 published events cover 12 months, averaging 65.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 263 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.