Station Road Gillingham, Medway

527 addresses across 26 postcodes (ME8), about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 32101816.

  • Sales: 504 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £230,000 across 9 sales.
  • Energy: 307 homes have an energy certificate (B: 11, C: 93, D: 150, E: 45, F: 8).
  • Flood: 30 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rainham (Kent), about 650 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 6 to 39 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 418 of its 527 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Orchard Family Practice, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 2,490 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 67 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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
20269£230,000£98,000£605,000
202510£263,500£200,000£575,000
202414£260,500£190,000£770,000
202310£240,000£150,000£440,000
202211£255,000£190,000£320,000
202117£227,000£115,000£525,000
202011£178,000£108,000£532,000
201912£236,000£105,000£423,000
20186£194,250£105,000£250,000
201711£200,000£64,000£342,000
20169£220,000£75,000£392,500
201520£159,750£80,000£400,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 504)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Aug 2026345 ME8 7QYSemi-detached£355,000
12 Jun 202645 ME8 7SBTerraced£250,000
27 Apr 2026343 ME8 7QYSemi-detached£425,000
31 Mar 2026224 ME8 7PSTerraced£190,000
23 Mar 2026175A ME8 7SPFlat or maisonette£98,000Leasehold.
6 Mar 2026234 ME8 7PSTerraced£225,000
27 Feb 20265, COPPER HOUSE FARM ME8 7UQDetached£605,000
27 Feb 2026235 ME8 7PSTerraced£230,000
25 Feb 2026223 ME8 7PSTerraced£275,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Feb 2026121 ME8 7SPTerraced£270,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jan 2026320 ME8 7QYTerraced£225,000
14 Nov 2025258 ME8 7PTSemi-detached£267,000
4 Nov 2025307 ME8 7PTSemi-detached£355,000
30 Sep 2025209 ME8 7PSSemi-detached£240,000
18 Sep 2025190 ME8 7PRDetached£230,000
13 Aug 2025211 ME8 7PSSemi-detached£200,000
1 Jul 2025327 ME8 7PUSemi-detached£290,000
30 Apr 2025248 ME8 7PTTerraced£260,000
24 Feb 2025281 ME8 7PTSemi-detached£280,000
20 Feb 2025400 ME8 7QZDetached£575,000
19 Feb 2025152 ME8 7PRTerraced£210,000
6 Dec 2024318 ME8 7QYTerraced£265,000
5 Dec 20241, COPPER HOUSE FARM ME8 7UQDetached£770,000
6 Nov 2024243 ME8 7PSSemi-detached£261,000
18 Oct 202497 ME8 7SETerraced£215,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Oct 2024103 ME8 7SETerraced£260,000
11 Oct 2024271 ME8 7PTTerraced£240,000
26 Sep 20243, CEMENT COTTAGES ME8 7UFTerraced£225,000
6 Sep 2024378 ME8 7QZTerraced£550,000
6 Sep 20244, CEMENT COTTAGES ME8 7UFTerraced£237,000
28 Aug 2024291 ME8 7PTTerraced£190,000
7 Jun 2024291 ME8 7PTTerraced£175,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 May 2024295A ME8 7PTSemi-detached£272,500
3 May 2024316 ME8 7QYTerraced£285,000
26 Apr 2024DALWOOD ME8 7UFSemi-detached£550,000
18 Mar 2024328 ME8 7QYTerraced£250,000
22 Feb 2024256 ME8 7PTSemi-detached£154,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Feb 202432 ME8 7PHTerraced£183,200Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jan 20241, BENNETTS COTTAGES ME8 7UHTerraced£235,000
19 Dec 202325 ME8 7RSOther£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Dec 202376 ME8 7PJOther£40,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Nov 2023259 ME8 7PSTerraced£250,000
19 Oct 2023INVER HOUSE ME8 7UHDetached£440,000
19 Oct 2023255 ME8 7PSSemi-detached£255,000
13 Oct 20234, FORGE COURT ME8 7ULFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 2023247 ME8 7PSTerraced£209,000
9 Aug 2023267 ME8 7PTSemi-detached£265,000
4 Aug 2023261 ME8 7PSTerraced£230,000
7 Jul 2023215 ME8 7PSSemi-detached£360,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jul 2023165 ME8 7SPTerraced£280,000

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

307 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (96); Flat (82); House, semi-detached (43). Built: 1900-1929 (99); before 1900 (70); 1950-1966 (31). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (148); rented (private) (97); rented (social) (20).

Each home's certificates and sales (121 addresses)

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (27% of about 3,040 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 4 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 3.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 21 December 2026 to 23 December 2026: BT, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (minor works, permit applied for)
  • 31 December 2026 to 2 January 2027: NETWORK RAIL, Works for Rail Purposes, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 24 January 2027 to 25 January 2027: NETWORK RAIL, Works for Rail Purposes, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 17 October 2026 to 19 October 2026: NETWORK RAIL, Works for Rail Purposes, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 7 October 2026: MEDWAY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 30 September 2026 to 5 October 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, priority working, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)
  • 1 September 2026 to 2 September 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 25 August 2026 to 27 August 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 13 August 2026 to 14 August 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 18 at medium risk and 54 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
ME8 7PHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 12 unlikely
ME8 7PSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 10 unlikely
ME8 7PTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
ME8 7PRnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
ME8 7RSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
ME8 7QYnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 6 unlikely
ME8 7PJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
ME8 7QZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely
ME8 7SPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 7SQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 7SBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
ME8 7SEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 7PUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 7UFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 7SFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 7UHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 0 unlikely
ME8 7UEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 2 unlikely
ME8 7UQnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 3 unlikely
ME8 7QXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 7ULnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 8EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 8HDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
ME8 7PXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 7NRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 3 unlikely
ME8 7SGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
ME8 7UDnot in 2 or 3 6 / 4 / 0 unlikely

Sources: 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 527 addresses are between 6 m and 39 m above sea level (24 m on average); the ground rises about 32 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
ME8 7NR100%100%100%0%
ME8 7PH100%100%100%0%
ME8 7PJ100%100%100%0%
ME8 7PR100%100%100%0%
ME8 7PS100%100%100%0%
ME8 7PT100%100%100%0%
ME8 7PU100%100%100%0%
ME8 7PX100%100%100%0%
ME8 7QX100%0%0%0%
ME8 7QY100%82%82%0%
ME8 7QZ100%100%100%0%
ME8 7RS86%86%86%0%
ME8 7SB100%100%100%0%
ME8 7SE100%100%100%0%
ME8 7SF100%100%100%0%
ME8 7SG100%100%100%0%
ME8 7SP100%100%100%0%
ME8 7SQ100%100%100%0%
ME8 7UD100%100%100%0%
ME8 7UE100%100%100%0%
ME8 7UF100%100%100%0%
ME8 7UH100%100%100%0%
ME8 7UL100%0%0%0%
ME8 7UQ100%100%100%0%
ME8 8ED100%100%100%0%
ME8 8HD100%100%89%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 2024–25650 m (0.4 miles)
Newington 141,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ellison Way Lower Rainham80 m
Bus or coach stationWaterfront Bus Station Chatham6.7 km (4.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Station Road570 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN22.9 km (14 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW61.3 km (38 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. 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Orchard Family Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mediclinic Pharmacy Rainham1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Rainham Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital5.4 km (3.3 miles)
Police stationMedway Police Station5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest London & South Eastern Railway - Rainham Cashzone670 m (0.4 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,560 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.0 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 410 m²200 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Berengrave Chalk Pit Allotment 7,600 m²500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bloors Lane Community WoodlandWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Motney HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Silver Spot WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Horsham MarshWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Horrid HillHeadland2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Spekes BottomValley3.6 km (2.3 miles) south-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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
65 to 69597
60 to 642836
55 to 597615
Under 55109499

418 of the street's 527 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 28 from railways, 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), 3 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Riverside Primary SchoolPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leigh Academy RainhamSecondary11–191 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thames View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret's Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Rainham Mark Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Miers Court Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Howard SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) 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
Rainham School for GirlsSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) 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

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Mackland Arms ME8 7PSPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good19 May 2026
Ideal Supermarket ME8 7SQRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Jan 2026
The Candy Store ME8 7SQRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good25 Sep 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.

67 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Anti-social behaviour21
Drugs5
Possession of weapons4
Other theft3
Other crime3
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order2
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bloomfields (35); On or near Macklands Way (12); On or near Cobdown Grove (6); On or near Twyford Close (6); On or near Ellison Way (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 8 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,490 residents in 1,108 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 age4040
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 8 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: NETWORK RAIL: Works for Rail Purposes, 17 October 2026 to 19 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 21 December 2026 to 23 December 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, flat (lodged 14 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Candy Store (retailers - other, ME8 7SQ) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 25 September 2026) found 31 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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

Ellison Way · Cooden Close · Wivenhoe Close · Twyford Close · Lambourne Place · Tilbury Road · Macklands Way · Finwell Road · Cobdown Grove · Shorefields · Clover Lay · Bloomfields

All the streets in ME8 and across Medway.

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.
  • 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.