Cliffe

Cliffe is covered by postcode district ME3. It is in the Medway council area, England.

ONS publishes this built-up area as Cliffe (Medway).

Typical price £371,000 Homes sold in Cliffe, last 12 months. ▲ 14% on the year before Gigabit broadband 48 of 62 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Low risk only 5 of 62 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Cliffe, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Cliffe, by flood risk Of the 62 postcodes in Cliffe that ONS places, 5 are at very low risk only and 57 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Cliffe. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. ME3 7AQ: not on the flood risk listME3 7BF: not on the flood risk listME3 7EF: not on the flood risk listME3 7EN: not on the flood risk listME3 7EY: not on the flood risk listME3 7GL: not on the flood risk listME3 7PJ: not on the flood risk listME3 7PL: not on the flood risk listME3 7PN: not on the flood risk listME3 7PP: not on the flood risk listME3 7PT: not on the flood risk listME3 7PU: not on the flood risk listME3 7PW: not on the flood risk listME3 7PX: not on the flood risk listME3 7PY: not on the flood risk listME3 7PZ: not on the flood risk listME3 7QA: not on the flood risk listME3 7QB: not on the flood risk listME3 7QD: not on the flood risk listME3 7QE: not on the flood risk listME3 7QF: not on the flood risk listME3 7QJ: not on the flood risk listME3 7QL: not on the flood risk listME3 7QN: not on the flood risk listME3 7QP: not on the flood risk listME3 7QR: not on the flood risk listME3 7QS: not on the flood risk listME3 7QT: not on the flood risk listME3 7QW: not on the flood risk listME3 7QX: not on the flood risk listME3 7QZ: not on the flood risk listME3 7RA: not on the flood risk listME3 7RB: not on the flood risk listME3 7RD: not on the flood risk listME3 7RE: not on the flood risk listME3 7RF: not on the flood risk listME3 7RH: not on the flood risk listME3 7RX: not on the flood risk listME3 7RY: not on the flood risk listME3 7SH: not on the flood risk listME3 7SJ: not on the flood risk listME3 7SL: not on the flood risk listME3 7SN: not on the flood risk listME3 7SP: not on the flood risk listME3 7SR: not on the flood risk listME3 7SS: not on the flood risk listME3 7SW: not on the flood risk listME3 7SY: not on the flood risk listME3 7TL: not on the flood risk listME3 7TN: not on the flood risk listME3 7TW: not on the flood risk listME3 7UF: not on the flood risk listME3 7UG: not on the flood risk listME3 7UL: not on the flood risk listME3 7UN: not on the flood risk listME3 7UQ: not on the flood risk listME3 7UW: not on the flood risk listME3 7DW: very low flood risk onlyME3 7UE: very low flood risk onlyME3 7UH: very low flood risk onlyME3 7UJ: very low flood risk onlyME3 7UT: very low flood risk only Cliffe Map of every postcode in Cliffe, by flood risk Of the 62 postcodes in Cliffe that ONS places, 5 are at very low risk only and 57 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Cliffe. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Cliffe
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 5
  • Not on the at-risk list: 57

Of the 62 postcodes in Cliffe that ONS places, 5 are at very low risk only and 57 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.4588, longitude 0.4983. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

What is it like to live in Cliffe?

Homes sold for a typical £371,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 14% on the 12 months before. At 48 of the 62 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 62 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Highparks Medical Practice, 2.7 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Higham, 4.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Cliffe?

Homes in Cliffe sold for a typical £371,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 22 sales, up 14% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£371,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£325,500
12 months to August 2026
£371,000

▲ up 14% on the 12 months before

Detached 4 sales, too few to price
Semi-detached£390,000 10 sales
Terraced£280,000 8 sales

Across the whole ME3 district, Cliffe's main postcode district: a typical £373,750.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Cliffe: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Cliffe?

None of the 62 postcodes now in use in Cliffe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 25 homes sold in Cliffe were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME3 district, 12%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn CliffeAcross the ME3 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 22 (0%) 4 of 344 (1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 25 (0%) 52 of 445 (12%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Cliffe?

Ofcom reports on 62 of the 62 postcodes in Cliffe. At 48 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit48 of 62
Postcodes where every home can get superfast61 of 62

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Cliffe at risk of flooding?

5 of the 62 postcodes in Cliffe have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5 of 62 postcodes Very low: 43

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Cliffe?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Cliffe. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Cliffe?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Cliffe is Higham Rail Station, 4.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Higham Rail Station Railway station 4.2 kmCycle
  • East Tilbury Rail Station Railway station 6.6 kmDrive
  • Strood Rail Station Railway station 6.9 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Cliffe?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Cliffe. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Cliffe safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 158 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Cliffe over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 9 September 2025
  2. 20 October 2025
  3. 16 November 2025
  4. 12 December 2025
  5. 13 January 2026
  6. 14 February 2026
  7. 15 March 2026
  8. 16 April 2026
  9. 10 May 2026
  10. 13 June 2026
  11. 12 July 2026
  12. 8 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences49 reports
Anti-social behaviour35 reports
Burglary25 reports
Criminal damage and arson16 reports
Vehicle crime9 reports
Other crime8 reports
Other theft7 reports
Drugs4 reports

Also: public order 2, shoplifting 1, robbery 1, possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Cliffe?

Council
Medway
Parliamentary constituency
Rochester and Strood
Police force area
Kent
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Lauren Edwards (Labour)

All 62 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Cliffe postcodes

62 postcodes in use in Cliffe, by district:

ME3 postcode district,62 postcodes

That district is in the ME postcode area.

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Places near Cliffe

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Cliffe's £371,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Cliffe Woods2.8 km, £430,000Higham5.6 km, £397,500Hoo St Werburgh5.8 km, £350,000East Tilbury6.2 km, £350,000Rochester7.9 km, £310,000Stanford-le-Hope8.1 km, £363,750Gravesend8.8 km, £350,000Chadwell St Mary9.3 km, £363,750 All places A to Z

Questions about Cliffe

What is it like to live in Cliffe?
Homes sold for a typical £371,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 14% on the 12 months before. At 48 of the 62 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 62 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Highparks Medical Practice, 2.7 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Higham, 4.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Cliffe?
Cliffe is covered by postcode district ME3, across 62 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Cliffe in?
Cliffe is in the Medway council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Cliffe?
Cliffe is in the Rochester and Strood parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Lauren Edwards (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Cliffe?
Homes in Cliffe sold for a typical £371,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 22 sales, up 14% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Cliffe?
In Cliffe, primary schools at its postcodes include St Helen's Church of England Primary School, Cliffe; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is City of Rochester School, 2.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Cliffe have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Cliffe is Higham, 4.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Cliffe?
Ofcom reports on 62 of the 62 postcodes in Cliffe. At 48 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Cliffe at risk of flooding?
5 of the 62 postcodes in Cliffe have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Cliffe?
None of the 62 postcodes now in use in Cliffe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 25 homes sold in Cliffe were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME3 district, 12%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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