Terraced Victorian streets packed tightly around a high street of convenience stores and takeaways — this is a dense pocket of Medway, and it feels it. Flats and terraces dominate the sales here, not detached houses with drives, and the population density backs that up: this is one of the more tightly packed corners of the country, denser even than the regional average. The housing picture is the clearest signal of what Brompton is. Leasehold flats make up the bulk of what sells, at prices some way below both the Medway and national medians — a one-bedroom flat here runs well under the national flat price, and even the wider median sale sits close to half the national house price. That affordability is real, but so is the flip side: this sits in the most deprived decile nationally on both income and general deprivation measures, which shapes everything else on this list. If you're commuting, Fort Pitt Grammar School's Outstanding rating is a genuine draw for families weighing up schools, and Brompton-Westbrook Primary serves the immediate streets, though its own Ofsted rating isn't listed here to judge by. Green space and connectivity are decent — fibre coverage is strong, and the area's transport and environment grades sit comfortably in B territory, better than you'd guess from the income figures alone. That's the pattern worth noticing: schools grade B+, housing B+, transport B, connectivity B — a place that functions well physically — but safety and nightlife both drop to C, and that's the crack in the plaster. Violence and sexual offences account for roughly a third of recorded crime, with anti-social behaviour close behind, and the overall crime rate here runs dramatically higher than the Medway average. It's worth sitting with that figure rather than the more comfortable grades around it. Median age here is 33, notably younger than both the regional and national norms, and that tallies with what you'd expect of a dense, affordable, leasehold-flat market: first-time buyers, renters, people early in their working lives rather than families settling in for decades. Someone weighing this place up is really weighing a trade — the numbers make it one of the more accessible places to buy in the South East, the schools option at Fort Pitt is a genuine asset, and the infrastructure holds up. But the safety picture is the one figure you shouldn't let the softer grades talk you out of examining closely before you commit.