Rochester
Rochester is covered by postcode districts ME1, ME2, ME3, ME4 and ME5. It is mostly in the Medway council area: 1,521 of its 1,530 postcodes. The others are in Gravesham and Tonbridge and Malling. 9 of its 1,530 postcodes are in Kent. ONS lists no county for the other 1,521.
Every postcode in Rochester, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 88
- At medium risk at worst: 8
- At low risk at worst: 41
- At very low risk only: 13
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,380
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 1,530 postcodes in Rochester that ONS places, 88 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 41 are at low risk at worst, 13 are at very low risk only and 1,380 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.3877, longitude 0.4953. 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
The postcodes at high risk
88 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 59 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. ME2 4WQ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. ME2 4HZ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. ME1 1QX, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Rochester?
Homes sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. At 1,116 of the 1,483 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,394 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 150 of its 1,530 postcodes. It has 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes, or more. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rochester, 850 metres 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 Rochester?
Homes in Rochester sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 638 sales, no change on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- 12 months to August 2025
- £310,000
- 12 months to August 2026
- £310,000
■ no change on the 12 months before
Across the whole ME2 district, Rochester's main postcode district: a typical £320,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Rochester: 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 Rochester?
64 of the 1,530 postcodes now in use in Rochester came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 20 of the 878 homes sold in Rochester were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME2 district, 3%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Rochester | Across the ME2 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 638 (0%) | 0 of 407 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 20 of 878 (2%) | 19 of 579 (3%) |
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 Rochester?
Ofcom reports on 1,483 of the 1,530 postcodes in Rochester. At 1,116 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Rochester at risk of flooding?
150 of the 1,530 postcodes in Rochester 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 1,394 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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 Rochester?
The open schools at the postcodes in Rochester (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- King's School, Rochester400 m 574 pupils, 800 places
- St Andrew's School (Rochester)500 m 329 pupils, 360 places
- Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School750 m 298 pupils, 446 places
- St Margaret's at Troy Town CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School750 m 216 pupils, 210 places
- St Nicholas CEVC Primary School1.0 km 156 pupils, 180 places
- All Faiths Children's Academy1.1 km 225 pupils, 210 places
- Cedar Children's Academy1.2 km 627 pupils, 630 places
- Ripplevale School Rochester1.2 km 140 pupils, 210 places
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 Rochester?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Rochester is Rochester Rail Station, 850 m away in a straight line.
- Rochester Rail Station Railway station 850 mWalk
- Strood Rail Station Railway station 1.0 kmWalk
- Chatham Rail Station Railway station 2.0 kmCycle
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 Rochester?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Rochester, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Thorndike Partnership950 m
- Apex Medical Centre1.1 km
- Court View Surgery1.1 km
- Marlowe Park Medical Ctr.1.9 km
- Borstal Village Surgery2.0 km
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Rochester safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 4,388 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Rochester 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
- 308 September 2025
- 386 October 2025
- 340 November 2025
- 382 December 2025
- 318 January 2026
- 332 February 2026
- 333 March 2026
- 329 April 2026
- 387 May 2026
- 357 June 2026
- 463 July 2026
- 453 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 119, burglary 76, robbery 43, bicycle theft 42, possession of weapons 40, theft from the person 19.
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 postcodeSource: 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 Rochester?
- Councils
- Medway (1,521), Gravesham (6) and Tonbridge and Malling (3)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Rochester and Strood (1,395), Chatham and Aylesford (129) and Gravesham (6)
- Police force area
- Kent
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Rochester
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell the council about council tax Councils A to Z
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Rochester
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Rochester postcodes
1,530 postcodes in use in Rochester, by district:
Those districts are all in the ME postcode area.
Check a Rochester postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Rochester
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Rochester's £310,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Rochester
- What is it like to live in Rochester?
- Homes sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. At 1,116 of the 1,483 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,394 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 150 of its 1,530 postcodes. It has 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes, or more. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rochester, 850 metres 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 Rochester?
- Rochester is covered by postcode districts ME1, ME2, ME3, ME4 and ME5, across 1,530 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Rochester?
- Homes in Rochester sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 638 sales, no change on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Rochester?
- In Rochester, primary schools at its postcodes include King's School, Rochester, St Andrew's School (Rochester) and Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include King's School, Rochester, Rochester Independent College and Ripplevale School Rochester. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Rochester have a railway station?
- Yes: Rochester is 850 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Rochester, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Rochester?
- Ofcom reports on 1,483 of the 1,530 postcodes in Rochester. At 1,116 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Rochester at risk of flooding?
- 150 of the 1,530 postcodes in Rochester 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 1,394 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 Rochester?
- 64 of the 1,530 postcodes now in use in Rochester came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 20 of the 878 homes sold in Rochester were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ME2 district, 3%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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