Hoo St Werburgh

19°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 25° / 17° · 46% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 15° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:29Sunset 19:16

12h 47m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Chatham Roadside, United Kingdom

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)

107 food businesses within 2 miles

• 94 rated 4–5 ★ (77 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Fort Apache (3.3 km)
• 18 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£296,182 average▲ 1.1% YoY

Across Medway · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£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 (5.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Morrisons (5.8 km)

20 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

22 charging locations within ~8 km

• 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Fix Auto Rochester (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches9
• Playgrounds10

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

• Not in the Green Belt
• 15 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

Lauren Edwards

Labour

Rochester and Strood

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 31
• Con 18
• Ref 3
• Oth 7

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens38
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,570 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£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

13% low-carbon electricity

Gas 49% · Imports 38% · Wind 5% · Nuclear 4%

215 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Rochester and Strood:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership411 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s401 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test393 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases375 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office347 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

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  Hoo St Werburgh · 0.1 km

  Hoo St Werburgh, commonly known as Hoo, is a large village and civil parish in the Medway district of Kent, England. It is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula to bear the name Hoo, a Saxon word believed to me…

• The Hundred of Hoo Academy · 0.6 km

  Leigh Academy Hundred of Hoo is a 4–18 mixed, all-through school and sixth form with academy status in Hoo St Werburgh, Kent, England. It is part of the Leigh Academies Trust.

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  Cockham Wood Fort · 1.4 km

  Cockham Wood Fort was constructed in 1669 on the north bank of the River Medway in Kent in south-east England.

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  Sharnal Street railway station · 2.0 km

  Sharnal Street station was a railway station between High Halstow Halt and Beluncle Halt on the Hundred of Hoo Railway.

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  Chattenden and Upnor Railway · 2.1 km

  The Chattenden and Upnor Railway was a narrow gauge railway serving the military barracks and depot at Upnor, Kent, and associated munitions and training depots. It started life in the early 1870s as a standard-gauge…

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  PS John H Amos · 2.1 km

  John H Amos is a paddlewheel tugboat built in Scotland in 1931. The last paddlewheel tug built for private owners, now owned by the Medway Maritime Trust, she is one of only two surviving British-built paddle tugs, th…

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