Medway

18°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 21° / 18° · 72% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 17° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:19

12h 51m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Chatham Roadside, United Kingdom

456 reported · July 2026▼ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences154
• Anti-social behaviour137
• Criminal damage & arson30
• Other theft27

32 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Gillingham North · Kent

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

446 reported road collisions (2024)

116 killed or seriously injured · 570 casualties · 15.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 417 rated 4–5 ★ (318 top)
• 14 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Gillingham (1.2 km)
• 38 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£1,236 average monthly rent▲ 2.5% YoY

• 1 bed £899
• 2 bed £1,141
• 3 bed £1,340

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

8.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.4 times median annual pay (9.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (2.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Morrisons (3.7 km)

18 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

30 charging locations within ~8 km

• 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Lidl-Gillingham (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres5
• Gyms4
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches38
• Playgrounds27

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Creativity and culture helping to build healthier, happier and more connected communities· 10 Sept 2026
• Rochester Castle lit green in support of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder awareness day· 10 Sept 2026
• Leader's statement following Government's announcement on Local Government Reorganisation· 7 Sept 2026
• Residents wanted to help decide how £60million is spent in three Medway neighbourhoods· 4 Sept 2026
• Are you prepared for school to begin?· 1 Sept 2026

Source: Medway Council

279,773 residents in Medway · 1,444/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 16%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 98 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

9% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,329 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (32% of 121,600)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

115 schools · 52,482 pupils

76 primary · 19 secondary · 20 other

Ofsted: 37 of 40 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (93%)

103inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Medway

298 CQC-registered services

• Care homes65
• GP practices42
• Dentists48
• Homecare agencies113
• Hospitals & hospices3

CQC ratings: 73% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 6 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Medway

• In a conservation area (Brompton Lines)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 168 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

188 applications decided

91% granted · 171 granted, 17 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Naushabah Khan

Labour

Gillingham and Rainham

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 31
• Con 18
• Ref 3
• Oth 7

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools11
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies5
• Supermarkets6
• Parks & greens1847
• Restaurants & cafés106

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,570 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

87 jobs advertised · £40,006 avg

e.g. LGV 2 Driver Days, Electronics Tutor, Warehouse Operative (Zero/Casual Hours)

Source: Adzuna

£773 median full-time weekly pay

4.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,115 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 129,982 certificates

11.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

14% low-carbon electricity

Imports 61% · Gas 24% · Wind 14% · Hydro 1%

131 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.9 yrs women · 78.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 60.2 women · 59 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

5 GP surgeries · 14 pharmacies in ME7

• Woodlands Family Practice
• The Glebe Family Practice
• Princes Park Medical Ctr

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Gillingham and Rainham:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases437 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership367 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s360 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test351 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office322 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  HMS President (1918) · 0.3 km

  HMS President is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently on the Thames as a Royal Navy Reserve drill ship. In 1988 she was sold to private…

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  Waterfront UTC · 0.3 km

  Waterfront UTC is a University Technical College in Chatham, Kent, England, which opened in September 2015 as Medway UTC on a site between Pier Road and South Side Three Road. After receiving an "inadequate" rating in…

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  MidKent College · 0.3 km

  MidKent College is a further education college in Kent, England. It runs courses from two separate campuses in Maidstone and Medway, including a number of higher education courses. There are approximately 8,500 studen…

• Medway School of Science · 0.3 km

  The Medway School of Science is one of the schools of the University of Greenwich in South East England. The School of Science is based on the university's Medway campus in Chatham Maritime in the county of Kent. The…

• Medway School of Pharmacy · 0.4 km

  The Medway School of Pharmacy is a school of pharmacy in South East England. Established in 2004, the school is the result of a collaboration between the University of Greenwich and the University of Kent. Its campus…

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  Drill Hall Library · 0.4 km

  The Drill Hall Library in North Road, Chatham in Kent, England, was built as a military drill hall in 1902, for the Royal Navy as part of HMS Pembroke shore establishment and barracks. The barracks closed in 1984. The…

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