Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 11 secondary schools. The Annex School House is the nearest published school at 693 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BR8 7LX
Hextable · Sevenoaks · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BR8 7LX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BR
- Postcode district
- BR8
- Postcode sector
- BR8 7
- Latitude
- 51.409867
- Longitude
- 0.175165
- British National Grid easting
- 551,373
- British National Grid northing
- 170,116
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Sevenoaks · E07000111
- Electoral ward
- Hextable · E05009960
- Parish or community
- E04012394
- Westminster constituency
- Sevenoaks · E14001465
- Output area
- E00124090
- Lower layer super output area
- Sevenoaks 001B · E01024446
- Middle layer super output area
- Sevenoaks 001 · E02005087
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BR8
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3 College Cottages, College Road, Hextable, Swanley, BR8 7LX | 31 March 2016 | £250,000 |
| Farmhouse Cottages, 1, College Road, Hextable, Swanley, BR8 7LX | 9 November 1998 | £155,000 |
| The Cottages, 2, College Road, Hextable, Swanley, BR8 7LX | 29 July 1997 | £89,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 11
- 693 m
The Annex School House
Other independent special school
- 705 m
Hextable Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Horizon Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,197
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 422
- Anti social behaviour 166
- Criminal damage and arson 138
- Shoplifting 113
- Other theft 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- BR8 7 residents
- 16,056
4 female, 5 male
Age bands in BR8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.1%
3,019 residents
1,637 residents
3,947 residents
4,115 residents
3,192 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BR8 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
SWANLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
26-28 SWANLEY CENTRE, SWANLEY, BR8 7AH
ODS code G82028
1.6 km
PLAS MEDDYG SURGERY
40 PARKHILL ROAD, BEXLEY, DA5 1HU
ODS code G83029
4.2 km
CRAYFORD TOWN SURGERY
CRAYFORD ROAD, (NEXT TO TOWN HALL), DARTFORD, DA1 4ER
ODS code G83642
4.5 km
LOWFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
65-67 LOWFIELD STREET, DARTFORD, DA1 1HP
ODS code G82143
4.5 km
HORSMAN'S PLACE SURGERY
HORSMANS PLACE, INSTONE ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2JP
ODS code G82048
4.6 km
REDWOOD PRACTICE
DARTFORD WEST HEALTH CENTRE, TOWER ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2HA
ODS code G82185
4.6 km
THE WELLCOME PRACTICE
DARTFORD WEST HEALTH CENTRE, TOWER ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2HA
ODS code G82056
4.6 km
BROOMWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
41 BROOMWOOD ROAD, ST. PAULS CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2JP
ODS code G84019
4.7 km
DERRY DOWNS SURGERY
29 DERRY DOWNS, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4DU
ODS code G84005
4.9 km
ST MARY CRAY PRACTICE
322 HIGH STREET, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4AR
ODS code G84013
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Rollo Road
BCT · Hextable
- 0.3 miles
Rowhill Road
BCT · Hextable
- 0.3 miles
Rowhill Road
BCT · Hextable
- 0.3 miles
Rollo Road
BCT · Hextable
- 0.5 miles
Golf Course
BCT · Hextable
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sevenoaks 001B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,751 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,197 published events cover 12 months, averaging 99.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 422 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.