Property market
The five-year median is £180,000 from 5 recorded sales in DA1 5LU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dartford is £351,594 in June 2026, up 3.8% year on year.
DA1 5LU
Temple Hill · Dartford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DA1 5LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DA
- Postcode district
- DA1
- Postcode sector
- DA1 5
- Latitude
- 51.458703
- Longitude
- 0.221970
- British National Grid easting
- 554,463
- British National Grid northing
- 175,644
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Dartford · E07000107
- Electoral ward
- Temple Hill · E05012408
- Parish or community
- E43000286
- Westminster constituency
- Dartford · E14001191
- Output area
- E00122595
- Lower layer super output area
- Dartford 001G · E01035272
- Middle layer super output area
- Dartford 001 · E02005028
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 DA1
Property
54 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 48, Dunlop Close, Dartford, DA1 5LU | 9 June 2026 | £180,000 |
| 40, Dunlop Close, Dartford, DA1 5LU | 26 September 2025 | £175,000 |
| 8, Dunlop Close, Dartford, DA1 5LU | 7 February 2025 | £240,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 56
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 14
- 182 m
Leigh UTC Dartford
University technical college
- 564 m
Dartford Bridge Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 633 m
River Mill Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,818
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 915
- Shoplifting 394
- Anti social behaviour 369
- Criminal damage and arson 244
- Other theft 192
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 42
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- DA1 5 residents
- 19,348
17 female, 25 male
Age bands in DA1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 26.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 7%
5,057 residents
1,796 residents
7,452 residents
3,595 residents
1,348 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DA1 5 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
13
within 5 km
TEMPLE HILL SURGERY
ST EDMUNDS CHURCH LIVING, ST. EDMUNDS ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 5ND
ODS code G82647
859 m
REDWOOD PRACTICE
DARTFORD WEST HEALTH CENTRE, TOWER ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2HA
ODS code G82185
1.8 km
THE WELLCOME PRACTICE
DARTFORD WEST HEALTH CENTRE, TOWER ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2HA
ODS code G82056
1.8 km
HORSMAN'S PLACE SURGERY
HORSMANS PLACE, INSTONE ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2JP
ODS code G82048
1.9 km
LOWFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
65-67 LOWFIELD STREET, DARTFORD, DA1 1HP
ODS code G82143
1.9 km
DR CJ SHIMMINS & PARTNERS
PILGRIMS WAY, DARTFORD, DA1 1QY
ODS code G82006
2.3 km
PILGRIMS WAY SURGERY
DARTFORD EAST HEALTH CENTRE, DARTFORD, DA1 1QY
ODS code G82212
2.3 km
SLADE GREEN MEDICAL CTR.
156 BRIDGE ROAD, SLADE GREEN, ERITH, DA8 2HS
ODS code G83062
2.6 km
CRAYFORD TOWN SURGERY
CRAYFORD ROAD, (NEXT TO TOWN HALL), DARTFORD, DA1 4ER
ODS code G83642
3.0 km
PURFLEET CARE CENTRE
TANK HILL ROAD, PURFLEET, RM19 1SX
ODS code Y00033
3.6 km
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
ERITH HEALTH CENTRE, 50 PIER ROAD, ERITH, DA8 1RQ
ODS code G83630
3.7 km
NORTHUMBERLAND HEATH MED.CTR.
HIND CRESCENT, NORTHUMBERLAND HEATH, ERITH, DA8 3DB
ODS code G83010
4.4 km
LYNDHURST ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
41 LYNDHURST ROAD, BARNEHURST, BEXLEYHEATH, DA7 6DL
ODS code G83049
4.4 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
- 0.1 miles
Salmon Road
BCT · Temple Hill
- 0.1 miles
Sharp Way
BCT · Temple Hill
- 0.2 miles
Groveherst Road
BCT · Temple Hill
- 0.2 miles
Brunel Way
BCT · Dartford
- 0.2 miles
Brunel Way
BCT · Dartford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dartford 001G, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,504 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
Schools
56 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 14 secondary schools. Leigh UTC Dartford is the nearest published school at 182 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,818 published events cover 12 months, averaging 234.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 915 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.