Property market
The five-year median is £863,000 from 4 recorded sales in DA12 3DS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Gravesham is £345,369 in June 2026, up 2.4% year on year.
DA12 3DS
Higham & Shorne · Gravesham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DA12 3DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DA
- Postcode district
- DA12
- Postcode sector
- DA12 3
- Latitude
- 51.416582
- Longitude
- 0.431538
- British National Grid easting
- 569,176
- British National Grid northing
- 171,423
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Gravesham · E07000109
- Electoral ward
- Higham & Shorne · E05014915
- Parish or community
- E04004939
- Westminster constituency
- Gravesham · E14001254
- Output area
- E00123376
- Lower layer super output area
- Gravesham 010E · E01024301
- Middle layer super output area
- Gravesham 010 · E02005064
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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Malthouse Cottage, Malthouse Lane, Shorne, Gravesend, DA12 3DS | 15 October 2024 | £680,000 |
| Peartree Cottage, Malthouse Lane, Shorne, Gravesend, DA12 3DS | 21 October 2022 | £863,000 |
| Malthouse, Malthouse Lane, Shorne, Gravesend, DA12 3DS | 21 October 2022 | £863,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 4
- 208 m
Shorne Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Gad's Hill School
Other independent school
- 2.3 km
Higham Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 80
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Burglary 11
- Other theft 9
- Criminal damage and arson 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DA12 3 residents
- 2,298
7 female, 3 male
Age bands in DA12 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.1%
391 residents
271 residents
441 residents
787 residents
777 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DA12 3 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
7
within 5 km
ROCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
115 ROCHESTER ROAD, GRAVESEND, DA12 2HU
ODS code G82648
3.5 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
4.1 km
OAKFIELD HEALTH CENTRE, PRACTICE 2
WINDSOR ROAD, GRAVESEND, DA12 5BW
ODS code G82808
4.3 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
4.4 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
4.8 km
OLD ROAD WEST SURGERY
30 OLD ROAD WEST, GRAVESEND, DA11 0LL
ODS code G82067
4.9 km
HIGHPARKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKSIDE, CLIFFE WOODS, ROCHESTER, ME3 8HX
ODS code G82100
4.9 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
Village Hall
BCT · Shorne
- 0.2 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Shorne
- 0.2 miles
Shorne Crossroads
BCT · Shorne
- 0.2 miles
Shorne Crossroads
BCT · Shorne
- 0.2 miles
Shorne Crossroads
BCT · Shorne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gravesham 010E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,865 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
35 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 4 secondary schools. Shorne Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 208 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
80 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.