Neighbourhoods in Medway
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
38 neighbourhoods · 169 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Medway
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Medway. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Medway median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Medway.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Medway
Crime in Medway runs at 24% below the national average. Below median (#227 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 76.8, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Medway
100% of schools serving Medway are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Medway
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Medway
Medway has 0.35 jobs per resident locally. Bottom quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Medway
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Medway?
- The median monthly rent across Medway is £1,241, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Medway?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Medway by estimated median rent is Chatham South East at approximately £1,031/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Medway?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Medway is Gillingham Central at 79/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Medway a safe area?
- Medway has an average safety score of 55/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Medway?
- The most common council tax band in Medway is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,944. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Medway.
- What is the average salary in Medway?
- The median annual resident salary in Medway is £33,857, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Medway, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Medway?
- The average property price in Medway is approximately £298,252 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Medway?
- Gross rental yield in Medway is approximately 4.5% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Medway?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 4.5 years in Medway. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Medway?
- 100% of premises in Medway are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Medway?
- 4.3% of 16-64 residents in Medway are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Medway?
- Medway contains 38 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 169 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Medway
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Medway 022A
- Medway 012A
- Medway 009C
- Medway 022C
- Medway 006E
- Medway 009E
- Medway 016A
- Medway 015C
- Medway 020A
- Medway 016B
- Medway 015B
- Medway 009F
- Medway 013A
- Medway 016C
- Medway 014A
- Medway 012D
- Medway 020D
- Medway 012B
- Medway 010D
- Medway 013B
- Medway 007H
- Medway 020B
- Medway 016D
- Medway 013D
- Medway 011A
- Medway 006A
- Medway 007G
- Medway 012C
- Medway 017D
- Medway 007A
- Medway 006C
- Medway 021B
- Medway 015A
- Medway 014C
- Medway 009D
- Medway 010C
- Medway 017B
- Medway 034A
- Medway 022B
- Medway 025C
- Medway 025E
- Medway 014B
- Medway 022D
- Medway 007F
- Medway 021C
- Medway 027E
- Medway 006D
- Medway 019B
- Medway 015E
- Medway 021D
- Medway 015G
- Medway 017C
- Medway 024C
- Medway 020C
- Medway 014D
- Medway 013E
- Medway 038E
- Medway 013C
- Medway 036B
- Medway 008C
- Medway 034C
- Medway 015F
- Medway 034D
- Medway 025D
- Medway 026C
- Medway 018B
- Medway 007I
- Medway 021A
- Medway 032C
- Medway 018C
- Medway 017A
- Medway 011C
- Medway 011D
- Medway 005D
- Medway 027D
- Medway 033C
- Medway 029A
- Medway 011B
- Medway 003D
- Medway 024A
Showing 80 of 169 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.