Cliffe (Medway)

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 11° / 9° · 32% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:56Sunset 16:26

9h 30m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

38US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stanford-le-Hope Roadside, United Kingdom

• 7.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.7% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

7 reported · August 2026▼ 56% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences3
• Vehicle crime2
• Other crime2

Neighbourhood team: Strood Rural · Kent

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

460 reported road collisions (2025)

121 killed or seriously injured · 570 casualties · 16.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

20 food businesses within 2 miles

• 17 rated 4–5 ★ (15 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Higham (4.4 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£297,757 average▲ 0.5% YoY

Across Medway · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,232 average monthly rent▲ 1.7% YoY

• 1 bed £896
• 2 bed £1,137
• 3 bed £1,336

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

3,266 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (7.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (7.5 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

15 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: DP World London Gateway Port (5.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools4
• Sports pitches5
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Love Gillingham: Civic Square project commences· 4 Nov 2026
• SGN set to undertake improvement works on Lower Rainham Road· 4 Nov 2026
• Youth work helping Medway's young people build brighter futures· 2 Nov 2026
• Child-Friendly Medway celebrates five years of putting young people’s voices first· 2 Nov 2026
• Remembrance events in Medway· 30 Oct 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK15,878
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK16,899
• Net moves−1,021

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 91 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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 · 50,953 pupils

76 primary · 19 secondary · 20 other

Ofsted: 35 of 38 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Medway

294 CQC-registered services

• Care homes66
• GP practices42
• Dentists47
• Homecare agencies108
• Hospitals & hospices3

CQC ratings: 74% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 6 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Medway

• Not in the Green Belt
• 21 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

239 applications decided

92.5% granted · 221 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Lauren Edwards

Labour

Rochester and Strood

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 31
• Con 17
• Ref 3
• Oth 8

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

• Schools1
• GPs & clinics1
• Parks & greens7
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,850 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£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

45% low-carbon electricity

Gas 55% · Wind 34% · Nuclear 7% · Biomass 4%

221 gCO₂/kWh · high 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

4 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in ME3

• The Elms Medical Centre
• Highparks Medical Practice
• St. Werburgh Med.Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Rochester and Strood:

• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent449 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases376 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth307 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death269 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND262 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Cliffe, Kent · 0.2 km

  Cliffe is a village in the civil parish of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, in the borough of Medway in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. It is on the Hoo Peninsula, reached from the Medway Towns by a three-mile (4.8 km…

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  Cliffe and Cliffe Woods · 0.2 km

  Cliffe and Cliffe Woods is a civil parish in the borough of Medway in Kent, England. The parish is located on the Hoo Peninsula and comprises the villages of Cliffe and the suburb, Cliffe Woods. At the 2011 Census the…

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  Cliffe railway station · 1.7 km

  Cliffe was a railway station between Uralite Halt and High Halstow Halt on the Hundred of Hoo Railway in Kent, England. It was opened on 1 April 1882 and closed to passengers on 4 December 1961 and freight on 20 Augus…

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  Cooling Castle · 1.7 km

  Cooling Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Rochester. It was built in the 1380s by the Cobham family, the local lords of t…

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  Cooling, Kent · 1.9 km

  Cooling is a village and civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula, overlooking the North Kent Marshes, 6 miles north northwest of Rochester, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 209, which inc…

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  St James' Church, Cooling · 2.0 km

  St James' Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Cooling, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the…

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