Park Wood is detached and semi-detached houses on quiet residential roads, the kind of place where the streets are wider than the traffic needs and most people are past the first-flat stage of life. The median age sits at 43, a good few years above the national average, and that shows in the feel of the place: settled owner-occupiers rather than a churn of renters passing through. The housing picture backs that up directly. Freehold ownership dominates here — 23 of the 26 recent sales were freehold, and detached homes are the single largest property type, with semis close behind. A "For Sale" board on a Park Wood street is more likely to be advertising a family house than a starter flat, and the numbers agree: local detached homes sell for a median of £577,500, well above the national detached median, though only fractionally above the regional one — so you're paying a South East premium, not a Park Wood one. Overall, the £322,500 median price here runs about 7.5% above the wider Medway average, putting it modestly ahead of its own unitary authority rather than markedly so. On schools, there's an Ofsted-rated Outstanding profile in the area's overall B+ schools grade, and St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary sits locally, though its own rating isn't listed in what's available here. Transport is thinner: three stops recorded locally, which points to a place better suited to driving than to a rail commute, and no named station stands out as the local option. Green space and connectivity are where Park Wood quietly does well — full fibre reaches close to 80% of homes, useful if you're working from that spare bedroom rather than commuting out. The grade pattern across the board reads consistently B to B+: affordability, connectivity, environment, health, housing, safety and schools all cluster in the same comfortable band, which is the real story here — nothing spikes, nothing collapses. The one exception is nightlife, graded C, and that tracks with what you'd expect from a residential suburb rather than a night-out destination; if you want restaurants and late bars, you'll be travelling for them. Safety is the number worth sitting with honestly. The crime grade is B+ and the trend is flat, which sounds reassuring, but the borough comparison is stark — the local crime rate runs over six times the Medway average, driven mostly by anti-social behaviour and violence and sexual offences, which together make up more than half of recorded incidents. Shoplifting adds another chunk. It's worth reading in context: burglary and robbery are both low single figures, and the volume overall is modest for a populated suburb, but the composition — anti-social behaviour and violence dominating over property crime — is the detail to ask a local estate agent about directly rather than take on trust from an average. Put together, Park Wood suits someone who wants a settled, house-proud residential suburb with decent broadband and green space, is not reliant on rail commuting, and is comfortable doing their own diligence on the safety figures rather than reading the headline grade alone. It's a quieter, older-skewing corner of Medway — good bones, but not one to walk into blind on the crime data.