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On Charles Street, in Grays Chafford Gorges & Orsett Road
What it's like at RM17 6DX: every home that has sold on Charles Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Charles Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 18 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 4, Charles StreetTerraced | Dec 2025 | £322,000 | 70 m² | £4,600/m² | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6, Charles StreetTerraced | Nov 2024 | £266,000 | 85 m² | £3,129/m² | 4 |
| 8, Charles StreetTerraced | Jan 2018 | £205,500 | 86 m² | £2,390/m² | 4 |
| 10, Charles StreetTerraced | Aug 2025 | £285,000 | 61 m² | £4,672/m² | 7 |
| 12, Charles StreetTerraced | Nov 2008 | £137,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Charles StreetTerraced | Sept 2022 | £278,000 | 57 m² | £4,877/m² | 5 |
| 16, Charles StreetTerraced | Aug 2015 | £180,000 | 60 m² | £3,000/m² | 3 |
| 18, Charles StreetTerraced | Mar 2016 | £227,000 | 56 m² | £4,054/m² | 4 |
| 20, Charles StreetTerraced | Aug 2020 | £240,000 | 57 m² | £4,211/m² | 5 |
| 22, Charles StreetTerraced | Sept 1999 | £52,995 | 62 m² | £855/m² | 2 |
| 24, Charles StreetTerraced | Mar 2025 | £275,500 | 54 m² | £5,102/m² | 2 |
| 26, Charles StreetTerraced | Sept 2021 | £215,000 | 61 m² | £3,525/m² | 2 |
| 28, Charles StreetTerraced | Mar 2023 | £305,000 | 64 m² | £4,766/m² | 4 |
| 30, Charles StreetTerraced | Jul 2026 | £330,000 | 70 m² | £4,714/m² | 3 |
| 32, Charles StreetTerraced | Feb 1996 | £39,000 | 71 m² | £549/m² | 2 |
| 34, Charles StreetTerraced | Jan 2014 | £137,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 46, Charles StreetTerraced | Nov 2022 | £275,000 | 60 m² | £4,583/m² | 2 |
| 48, Charles StreetTerraced | Jul 2026 | £300,000 | 59 m² | £5,085/m² | 5 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Grays, about a 10-minute walk (700 m), with 3.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to West Ham.
The nearest bus stop is Bridge Road, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 475); 6 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 13% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 32 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Thameside Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 45% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Quarry Hill Academy (0.5 km).
The nearest secondary is Grays Convent High School, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 55.7 · 15.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Harris Academy Chafford Hundred (2.3 km) and Harris Academy Ockendon (5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend (5.3 km) and Gravesend Grammar School (6.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Iceland, 500 m away, with Steves Chemist closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Dr Yadava N Practice (150 m), with Steve'S Chemist the closest pharmacy (100 m).
For a haircut, Dapper Barbers is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Darent Valley Hospital, 6.8 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 74% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 20 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Proper Vintage is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and St Thomas Catholic Club the nearest pub (100 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 132 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 14% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Falcon Wood, 300 m away; for exercise, Impulse Lesuire (1.9 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 19 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 46 km.
Most households own their home, 34% rent privately.
58 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Thurrock constituency: Jen Craft MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 6,474 (17.2%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 43%, Reform UK 26%, Conservative 21%, Green Party 4%.
13 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near RM17 6DX →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 15 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 85.8% | 85.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 13.9% | 13.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 18 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.