ME5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,003 of the district's 1,298 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.34872, 0.53283, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in ME5

Companies House lists 3,601 companies with a registered office in ME5; 694 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for ME5

• South East
• Chatham
• Medway
• Kent
• Tonbridge and Malling
• Maidstone
• Blue Bell Hill
• Gillingham
• Rochester
• Hale
• Kit's Coty

Roads filed under ME5

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abigail Crescent
• Abinger Drive
• Acer Drive
• Achilles Road
• Acres Green Close
• Admirals Walk
• Aintree Road
• Alamein Avenue
• Albemarle Road
• Albion Road
• Albury Close
• Aldershot Road
• Aldington Close
• Alexandra Glen
• Allen Close
• Amanda Close
• Ambrose Hill
• Amethyst Avenue
• Anglesey Close
• Anson Close
• Archer Road
• Arnhem Drive
• Arundel Close
• Ascot Close
• Ash Close
• Ashleigh Gardens
• Ashmead Close
• Ash Tree Lane
• Aspen Way
• Aston Close
• Austin Close
• Autumn Glade
• Avocet Walk
• Bader Crescent
• Badger Road
• Ballens Road
• Bankside
• Barberry Avenue
• Barleymow Close
• Barling Close
• Barnfield
• Barrington Close
• Barrowfields
• Bartlett Close
• Beacon Hill
• Beacon Road
• Beechen Bank Road
• Beeching Road
• Beechmore Drive
• Beechwood Avenue
• Bellgrove Court
• Bentley Close
• Berkshire Close
• Betteridge Close
• Bilsington Close
• Binland Grove
• Birch Drive
• Birchfields
• Birkdale Close
• Birk Hall Close

Check an address in ME5

Check an address in ME5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=ME5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about ME5

What does an ME5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the ME5 district of the ME (Medway) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Chatham. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,003 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest ME5

• ME13.5 km
• ME43.7 km
• ME73.8 km
• ME84.7 km
• ME25.9 km
• ME207.2 km
• ME67.4 km
• ME147.8 km
• ME168.7 km
• ME39.7 km
• ME1510.6 km
• ME1910.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids