Hinton Crescent Gillingham, Medway

57 addresses across 3 postcodes (ME7), about 310 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32100943.

  • Sales: 56 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026 (+0.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,235 a month.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 14, E: 8).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 4 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Hempstead Hills, is 90 m away.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Phinia, Courteney Road - Solar Panels, is 780 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A278, carries 40,320 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rainham (Kent), about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Wigmore Park, is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 89 to 96 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 57 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wigmore Medical Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 8 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£425,000£425,000£425,000
20252£365,000£355,000£375,000
20231£340,000£340,000£340,000
20221£370,000£370,000£370,000
20211£315,000£315,000£315,000
20201£360,000£360,000£360,000
20194£323,000£295,000£360,000
20182£317,000£304,000£330,000
20172£247,500£150,000£345,000
20161£275,000£275,000£275,000
20151£245,000£245,000£245,000
20141£248,000£248,000£248,000
All 56 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Nov 20182 ME7 3RLOther£275,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jun 20213 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£315,000
1 Mar 20105 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£185,000
26 Feb 19996 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£85,000
24 Oct 20227 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£370,000
27 Sep 20057 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£185,000
31 Jan 20078 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£213,500
28 Sep 20018 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£123,000
23 Apr 19998 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£94,000
28 Nov 200310 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£169,000
22 Jun 200711 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£225,000
11 Mar 200914 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£155,000
28 Nov 200314 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£188,000
12 Sep 199514 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£70,000
3 Aug 200015 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£119,000
22 Mar 201216 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£170,000
19 Aug 199918 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£85,000
13 Jun 200319 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£200,000
27 Nov 200219 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£53,500
26 Jun 199619 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£69,000
22 Jul 201126 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£237,000
12 Nov 199726 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£70,000
23 Oct 201928 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£360,000
31 Aug 200629 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£230,000
7 Sep 200429 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£223,000
5 Dec 201930 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£336,000
14 Feb 200730 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£180,000
30 Oct 201731 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£345,000
28 Nov 201231 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£185,000
4 Jul 201932 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£310,000
28 Sep 200132 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£123,000
18 Dec 202034 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£360,000
7 Oct 201134 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£238,000
23 Jul 200435 ME7 3RNTerraced£178,000
3 Jun 200435 ME7 3RNTerraced£30,000
31 Mar 199835 ME7 3RNTerraced£88,000
21 Aug 202636 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£425,000
8 Mar 201636 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£275,000
31 Jul 200236 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£145,000
29 May 199736 ME7 3RLSemi-detached£79,995
19 Aug 201537 ME7 3RNTerraced£245,000
24 Oct 199738 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£78,000
12 Aug 199741 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£79,995
9 May 201844 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£330,000
31 May 201344 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£221,500
4 Jul 200344 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£192,000
6 Mar 201746 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£150,000
24 Jan 201452 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£248,000
28 Aug 200956 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£185,000
27 Mar 199756 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£59,995
3 May 201860 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£304,000
19 Mar 202564 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£355,000
26 Jun 202566 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£375,000
7 Nov 201966 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£295,000
3 Nov 202368 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£340,000
20 Jan 199568 ME7 3RNSemi-detached£60,000

House prices and rents in Medway

A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026, 0.5% more than a year before. That is 13% more than five years earlier and 31% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£530,444
Semi-detached£352,795
Terraced£276,029
Flat or maisonette£168,915
Bought by a first-time buyer£270,313

Private renters in Medway paid £1,235 a month on average in September 2026, 1.6% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£897
Two bedrooms£1,140
Three bedrooms£1,340
Four or more bedrooms£1,827

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (22); House, mid-terrace (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (11); 1950-1966 (10); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,133 kWh of it on average in 2024, 12% more than the district's 10,787 kWh, and 3,263 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
ME7 3RL28 6 Economy 73,025 kWh 2812,835 kWh
ME7 3RN272,360 kWh 2711,103 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is ME7.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Medway in 2026-27: Band D £2,329 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,552£1,811£2,070£2,329£2,846£3,363£3,881£4,657

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (27% of about 670 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Phinia, Courteney Road - Solar Panels Medway MC/23/2763 Solar farm 1.8 MW Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2024 780 m (0.5 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ME7 3RLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME7 3RNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME7 3RJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

4 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 90 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Hempstead Hills Gillingham, Kent Not recorded Inert 90 m
Pumping Station Gillingham, Kent Not recorded Inert 230 m
Pine Grove Gillingham, Kent Not recorded Inert 270 m
Bennets Yard Bennets Yard, Kent Not recorded Inert 380 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 57 addresses are between 89 m and 96 m above sea level (92 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ME7 3RJ100%100%100%0%
ME7 3RL100%100%100%0%
ME7 3RN100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsRainham (Kent) 1.7 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Chatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Glenwood Close Hempstead160 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN25.4 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW57.8 km (36 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wigmore Medical Centre Good Nov 20221.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hempstead Pharmacy460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 7 - 8 Ambley Green Dental Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital Requires improvement Nov 20253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osbern Manor Care Home Requires improvement Apr 2026480 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Hempstead Cashzone460 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wigmore Park 3.1 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,190 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.1 ha140 m
AllotmentsHempstead Allotment 2.5 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Spekes BottomValley540 m (0.3 miles) north-west
East Hoath WoodWood620 m (0.4 miles) north-east
East HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Cinque Port MarshesWetland4.3 km (2.7 miles) north
Horrid HillHeadland4.4 km (2.7 miles) north-east
Couvre Port ReservoirLake or reservoir4.6 km (2.9 miles) north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)11.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
Under 555657

1 of the street's 57 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Medway: see them on the Medway page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Hempstead Infant SchoolPrimary4–7760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection None published
Hempstead Junior SchoolPrimary7–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Fairview Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Rainham School for GirlsSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.8 (44.3 in 2025 and 46.1 in 2024); 28.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 4.9% AAB or better; progress above average
The Howard SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.3 (45.2 in 2025 and 42.5 in 2024); 36.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection None published
Deanwood Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 28% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Parkwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 280 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Hempstead Pavilion Playgroup ME7 3RH Sessional day care 24 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 280 m
Hedgehogs Hempstead ME7 3QG Full day care 33 Not inspected yet 650 m (0.4 miles)
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Hempstead ME7 3QG Full day care 76 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 650 m (0.4 miles)
The Gillingham Nursery ME8 0RR Full day care 67 Good (Aug 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 840 m (0.5 miles)
ID PE & Sport's Fairview Holiday Course Centre ME8 0NU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Fairview Fledglings ME8 0NU Full day care 30 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 172 childminders and 53 home childcarers (nannies) in Medway. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Hempstead Pavilion Playgroup ME7 3SAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good21 Apr 2026
Co-Op Welcome ME7 3QERetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good17 Jun 2025
Chefs Of India ME7 3QETakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jun 2025
Coffee At Hempstead Hub ME7 3QERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Feb 2025
Osbern Manor Care Home ME8 0SWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Aug 2025
Wigmore Fish Bar (Gayathri Takeaway Ltd) ME8 0SWTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jan 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

8 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Criminal damage and arson3
Violence and sexual offences2
Vehicle crime1
Anti-social behaviour1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hinton Crescent (4); On or near Glenwood Close (3); On or near Parking Area (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202210
202300
202411
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
23 Mar 2024 04:17 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
2 Nov 2022 15:30 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A278 between Starsted Way and A2, with 40,320 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 360 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A278 Starsted Way to A2 40,320 estimated 3% +5% since 2015 360 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 299 residents in 111 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4540
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Glenwood Close · Star Lane · Pippin Croft · Lombardy Close · Grassy Glade · Waters Place · Fairview Avenue · Harrow Road

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What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.