Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 8 secondary schools. Gravesend Grammar School is the nearest published school at 89 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DA12 2HW
Town · Gravesham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DA12 2HW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- DA
- Postcode district
- DA12
- Postcode sector
- DA12 2
- Latitude
- 51.437166
- Longitude
- 0.382615
- British National Grid easting
- 565,700
- British National Grid northing
- 173,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Gravesham · E07000109
- Electoral ward
- Town · E05014925
- Parish or community
- E43000087
- Westminster constituency
- Gravesham · E14001254
- Output area
- E00123173
- Lower layer super output area
- Gravesham 005A · E01024259
- Middle layer super output area
- Gravesham 005 · E02005059
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 DA12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 43
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 8
- 89 m
Gravesend Grammar School
Academy converter
- 296 m
St John's Catholic Primary School, Gravesend
Academy converter
- 367 m
St John's Catholic Comprehensive
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,221
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,618
- Anti social behaviour 593
- Criminal damage and arson 396
- Other theft 380
- Shoplifting 231
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DA12 2 residents
- 10,141
Age bands in DA12 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.4%
2,356 residents
1,232 residents
3,316 residents
2,384 residents
966 residents
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.
GP practices
13
within 5 km straight-line
ROCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
115 ROCHESTER ROAD, GRAVESEND, DA12 2HU
ODS code G82648
588 m
PARROCK STREET SURGERY
186 PARROCK STREET, GRAVESEND, DA12 1EN
ODS code G82062
921 m
OLD ROAD WEST SURGERY
30 OLD ROAD WEST, GRAVESEND, DA11 0LL
ODS code G82067
1.1 km
GRAVESEND MEDICAL CENTRE
1 NEW SWAN YARD, GRAVESEND, DA12 2EN
ODS code G82780
1.2 km
PELHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GRANGE, 17 PELHAM ROAD, GRAVESEND, DA11 0HN
ODS code G82032
1.4 km
OAKFIELD HEALTH CENTRE, PRACTICE 2
WINDSOR ROAD, GRAVESEND, DA12 5BW
ODS code G82808
2.0 km
THE SHRUBBERY SURGERY
65A PERRY STREET, NORTHFLEET, GRAVESEND, DA11 8RD
ODS code G82021
2.2 km
SPRINGHEAD HEALTH
FLEET HEALTH CAMPUS, VALE ROAD, NORTHFLEET, GRAVESEND, DA11 8BZ
ODS code G82044
2.7 km
TILBURY HEALTH CENTRE
LONDON ROAD, TILBURY, RM18 8EB
ODS code F81110
2.9 km
COMMONWEALTH HEALTH CENTRE
QUEBEC ROAD, TILBURY, RM18 7RB
ODS code F81206
3.2 km
MEDIC HOUSE
OTTAWA ROAD, TILBURY, RM18 7RJ
ODS code F81652
3.2 km
SAI MEDICAL CENTRE
105 CALCUTTA ROAD, TILBURY, RM18 7QA
ODS code F81708
3.2 km
DOWNS WAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
WORCESTER CLOSE, ISTEAD RISE, GRAVESEND, DA13 9LB
ODS code G82809
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Church Walk
BCT · Milton
- 0.1 miles
Church Walk
BCT · Milton
- 0.2 miles
St John's School
BCT · Denton
- 0.2 miles
St John's School
BCT · Denton
- 0.2 miles
Albion Road
BCT · Milton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gravesham 005A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,564 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,221 published events cover 12 months, averaging 351.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,618 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.