KING STREET, ME1 1BE House Prices & Local Information

ME1 1BE is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on King Street, 0.2km from Troy Town in Rochester. Administratively it sits within Rochester East ward and the Rochester and Strood constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, ME1 1BE is a suburban renting area with semi-detached homes and family households. By day, the area transitions to a self-employed tradespeople in multicultural metro suburbs character: ethnically mixed self-employed with no fixed place of work in construction, transport, and storage. An average age of 36 puts this squarely in mixed-family territory — professional couples, school-age children households, and established residents all sharing the streets. 32% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime rates are above average at 107 incidents per 1,000 residents — worth reviewing the crime breakdown below. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for ME1 1BE are sourced from Output Area E00081472 (shared with 36 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.