Ham Green

9°CPatchy rain nearby

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

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:24

9h 26m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

4 reported · August 2026▼ 33% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour2
• Public order1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Hartlip, Newington and Upchurch · 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

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Rainham (3.8 km)
• 0 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: 157.9p · Esso (6.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Esso (6.8 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

25 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Medway-Hyundai (3.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches4
• 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
• 6 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

Labour majority

• Lab 31
• Con 17
• Ref 3
• Oth 8

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens12
• Restaurants & cafés1

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

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

0 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in ME9

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Sittingbourne and Sheppey:

• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent2,678 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth313 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases311 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND256 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence184 local signatures · 55,084 nationwide

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

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  Upchurch · 1.3 km

  Upchurch is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England. It is situated about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the A2 road, between Rainham and Sittingbourne.

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  Lower Halstow · 1.9 km

  Lower Halstow is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England. The village is northwest of Sittingbourne on the banks of the Medway Estuary. It lies north of Newington on the A2 Roman road.

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  Upchurch Hoard · 2.1 km

  The Upchurch Hoard is a hoard consisting of 37 Roman sestertii, dating from the late 1st century to the second half of the 2nd century AD, found in a ceramic pot, near the village of Upchurch, Kent, England, in 1950.

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  Medway Estuary and Marshes · 2.2 km

  Medway Estuary and Marshes is a 4,748.8-hectare (11,735-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the banks of the River Medway between Gillingham and Sheerness in Kent, England. It is…

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  Funton · 3.2 km

  Funton is a location in Kent, United Kingdom. It is a creek situated on the edge of the North Kent Marshes on the right bank of the River Medway about halfway between the towns Chatham and Sheerness.

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  Berengrave Chalk Pit · 3.3 km

  Berengrave Chalk Pit is a 12.77-hectare (31.6-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Rainham in Kent. It is owned and managed by Medway Council.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)