Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Cobham Hall is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DA12 3HX
Higham & Shorne · Gravesham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Higham & Shorne
- Local authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham
- Postcode district
- DA12
- Postcode sector
- DA12 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DA12 3HX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DA
- Postcode district
- DA12
- Postcode sector
- DA12 3
- Latitude
- 51.403815
- Longitude
- 0.418754
- British National Grid easting
- 568,334
- British National Grid northing
- 169,974
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
- E00123375
- Lower layer super output area
- Gravesham 010D · E01024300
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.1 km
Cobham Hall
Other independent school
- 1.6 km
Shorne Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Cobham Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 105
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 30
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Criminal damage and arson 14
- Vehicle crime 12
- Burglary 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DA12 3 residents
- 2,298
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
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
OAKFIELD HEALTH CENTRE, PRACTICE 2
WINDSOR ROAD, GRAVESEND, DA12 5BW
ODS code G82808
3.8 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
3.9 km
ROCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
115 ROCHESTER ROAD, GRAVESEND, DA12 2HU
ODS code G82648
4.0 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
4.5 km
DOWNS WAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
WORCESTER CLOSE, ISTEAD RISE, GRAVESEND, DA13 9LB
ODS code G82809
4.6 km
OLD ROAD WEST SURGERY
30 OLD ROAD WEST, GRAVESEND, DA11 0LL
ODS code G82067
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Shorne Woods Country Park
BCT · Shorne
- 0.1 miles
Shorne Woods Country Park
BCT · Shorne
- 0.7 miles
Racefield Close
BCT · Shorne Ridgeway
- 0.7 miles
Racefield Close
BCT · Shorne Ridgeway
- 0.9 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Shorne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gravesham 010D, 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
24,431 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
105 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 30 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.