Grain

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 10° · 64% rain
• Tomorrow: 13° / 10° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:52Sunset 16:29

9h 37m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Rochester Stoke, 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

3 reported · August 2026▼ 79% YoY

• Other crime2
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: All Saints · 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)

13 food businesses within 2 miles

• 11 rated 4–5 ★ (10 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Sheerness-on-Sea (3.7 km)
• 4 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: 169.7p · Asda (10.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 198.7p · Asda (10.4 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

3 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Superstore-Sheerness (3.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Remembrance events in Medway· 30 Oct 2026
• Temporary changes to platforms at Chatham Waterfront Bus Station· 30 Oct 2026
• Statement on Local Government reorganisation· 29 Oct 2026
• Medway residents unite for climate change discussion· 29 Oct 2026
• Statement on the Government's announce on devolution· 28 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
• 4 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
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,850 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

9 jobs advertised · £47,062 avg

e.g. Marsh Mallow Moth Project Officer, Security Supervisor, Labourer

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

76% low-carbon electricity

Wind 60% · Gas 24% · Nuclear 9% · Biomass 6%

100 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

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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  Isle of Grain · 0.3 km

  Isle of Grain is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the district of Medway in Kent, south-east England. Once an island and now forming part of the peninsula, the area is almost all marshla…

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  Grain Power Station · 1.1 km

  Grain Power Station is a 1,275 megawatts (1,710,000 hp) operational CCGT power station in Kent, England, owned by Uniper. It was also the name of an oil-fired, now demolished, 1,320 MW power station in operation from…

• Thames Hub Airport · 1.5 km

  Thames Hub Airport was a proposed platform-based hub airport located on the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary in Kent, whose development has been led by the architect Lord Foster. The idea for the airport was origin…

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  Kent Refinery · 1.7 km

  The BP Refinery (Kent) was an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain in Kent. It was commissioned in 1953 and had a maximum processing capacity of eleven million tonnes (eleven million long tons; twelve million short tons)…

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  River Medway · 2.0 km

  The River Medway is a river in South East England. It rises in the High Weald, West Sussex and flows through Tonbridge, Maidstone and the Medway conurbation in Kent, before emptying into the Thames Estuary near Sheern…

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  Grain LNG Terminal · 2.3 km

  Grain LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Isle of Grain, 37 miles (60 km) east of London. It has facilities for the offloading and reloading of LNG from ships at two jetties on the River Medw…

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