ME5 0FD House Prices & Local Information

ME5 0FD is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood located 0.4km from Luton in Chatham. Administratively it sits within Luton and Wayfield ward and the Chatham and Aylesford constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, ME5 0FD is a striving suburban area — non-UK born households working to get ahead. An average age of 33 points to a young professional and early-career population — ambitious, mobile, and predominantly renting. 33% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime is moderate at 56 incidents per 1,000 residents — broadly typical for this type of urban area. 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 ME5 0FD are sourced from Output Area E00081207 (shared with 15 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.