Property market
The five-year median is £395,000 from 1 recorded sale in BR8 8BA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sevenoaks is £543,081 in June 2026, up 3.2% year on year.
BR8 8BA
Swanley Christchurch and Swanley Village · Sevenoaks · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BR8 8BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BR
- Postcode district
- BR8
- Postcode sector
- BR8 8
- Latitude
- 51.393036
- Longitude
- 0.181281
- British National Grid easting
- 551,854
- British National Grid northing
- 168,257
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Sevenoaks · E07000111
- Electoral ward
- Swanley Christchurch and Swanley Village · E05009964
- Parish or community
- E04012399
- Westminster constituency
- Sevenoaks · E14001465
- Output area
- E00124226
- Lower layer super output area
- Sevenoaks 003B · E01024473
- Middle layer super output area
- Sevenoaks 003 · E02005089
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
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Property
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Lower Croft, Swanley, BR8 8BA | 25 August 2021 | £395,000 |
| 11, Lower Croft, Swanley, BR8 8BA | 30 June 2021 | £402,500 |
| 10, Lower Croft, Swanley, BR8 8BA | 17 July 2019 | £422,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 393 m
Downsview Community Primary School
Community school
- 442 m
High Firs Primary School
Community school
- 799 m
St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School, Swanley
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,460
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 546
- Anti social behaviour 213
- Shoplifting 147
- Criminal damage and arson 134
- Other theft 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 79
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- BR8 8 residents
- 7,674
43 female, 36 male
Age bands in BR8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
1,396 residents
712 residents
2,131 residents
1,968 residents
1,509 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BR8 8 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
4
within 5 km
SWANLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
26-28 SWANLEY CENTRE, SWANLEY, BR8 7AH
ODS code G82028
611 m
RIVER DARENT MEDICAL GROUP
GORSE HILL, FARNINGHAM, DARTFORD, DA4 0JU
ODS code G82218
3.9 km
DERRY DOWNS SURGERY
29 DERRY DOWNS, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4DU
ODS code G84005
4.6 km
ST MARY CRAY PRACTICE
322 HIGH STREET, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4AR
ODS code G84013
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Goldsel Road
BCT · Swanley
- 0.2 miles
Goldsel Road
BCT · Swanley
- 0.2 miles
Rogers Court
BCT · Swanley
- 0.2 miles
Rogers Court
BCT · Swanley
- 0.2 miles
High Street
BCT · Swanley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sevenoaks 003B, 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
25,743 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 3
- Medium risk addresses
- 10
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Downsview Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 393 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,460 published events cover 12 months, averaging 121.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 546 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.