Princes Park
Suburb · 139 residents
45Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Environment scores 76, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 9, below the typical 60
- Health scores 17, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Princes Park a good place to live?
Princes Park scores 45/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (76).
It scores lowest on food & drink (9) and health (17).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Princes Park in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Princes Park
Terraced Victorian and Edwardian streets dominate here, tightly packed and almost entirely freehold, the kind of streetscape where a For Sale board tends to mean a first-time buyer or a young family stretching a budget rather than a developer moving in — new build is essentially absent, and turnover is a touch above the national norm, suggesting people arrive and stay rather than flip.
On paper this is solidly middle-of-the-table England: an income and deprivation decile of 7 and 8 respectively put Princes Park among the more comfortable parts of Medway without pushing into the South East's pricier territory, and a median house price a little below the borough average confirms it's not chasing the region's inflated figures. Schools carry a strong B+ grade, connectivity is equally solid, and full-fibre coverage sits close to four in five homes — useful if you're weighing up working from home against a commute. The median age of 44 skews a bit older than both the regional and national averages, which fits a place of settled terraces rather than a churn of renters.
Green space per head runs slightly below the regional figure, and the nightlife grade is the area's weak spot — a C sitting awkwardly alongside B-grade health, environment and housing, the kind of pattern that says this is a place for a quiet evening in rather than a night out on the doorstep. Safety is graded B+ and officially "flat" year on year, which is worth pausing on: violence and sexual offences make up over a third of recorded crime and anti-social behaviour another quarter, and against Medway as a whole the crime rate here runs sharply higher — a detail that sits oddly against the reassuring letter grade and is worth weighing rather than skimming past.