Lower Upnor

21°CLight rain shower

• Today: 22° / 17° · 85% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 15° · Sunny

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

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Chatham Roadside, United Kingdom

98 reported · July 2026▲ 4% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences30
• Anti-social behaviour25
• Criminal damage & arson10
• Shoplifting10

6 stop & searches · mostly article for use in theft

Neighbourhood team: Strood Rural · 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

• 434 rated 4–5 ★ (348 top)
• 12 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Strood (2.6 km)
• 10 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 (4.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Morrisons (3.4 km)

19 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

24 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Fix Auto Rochester (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Gyms3
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches22
• Playgrounds12

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
• 32 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)

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens24
• Restaurants & cafés25

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,570 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

20 jobs advertised

e.g. Become a Spanish Tutor in Lower Upnor – Flexible & Remote, Online Chemistry Tutoring Job in Lower Upnor – Flexible Schedule, Online Maths Tutor - Part Time

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

16% low-carbon electricity

Imports 66% · Gas 18% · Solar 9% · Wind 6%

133 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

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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  Upnor · 0.2 km

  Lower Upnor and Upper Upnor are two small villages in Medway, Kent, England. They are in the civil parish of Frindsbury Extra on the western bank of the River Medway. Today both Lower Upnor and Upper Upnor are mainly…

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  Tower Hill to Cockham Wood · 0.2 km

  Tower Hill to Cockham Wood is a 47.8-hectare (118-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Rochester in Kent. It contains two Geological Conservation Review sites.

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  Upnor Castle · 0.5 km

  Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent. It is in the village of Upnor, opposite and a short distance downriver from the Chatham Dockyard, at one time a key n…

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  Chattenden and Upnor Railway · 0.7 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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  Chattenden · 0.8 km

  Chattenden is a village within the civil parish of Hoo, which is within the unitary authority of Medway, Kent, England. It was, until 1 April 1998, part of Kent and is still ceremonially associated via the Lieutenanci…

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  Raid on the Medway · 0.9 km

  The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War between 12 June to 14 June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard a…

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