Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 13 secondary schools. Stone Lodge School is the nearest published school at 713 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DA2 6QG
Stone Castle · Dartford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Stone Castle
- Local authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford
- Postcode district
- DA2
- Postcode sector
- DA2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DA2 6QG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DA
- Postcode district
- DA2
- Postcode sector
- DA2 6
- Latitude
- 51.453022
- Longitude
- 0.247301
- British National Grid easting
- 556,242
- British National Grid northing
- 175,066
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Dartford · E07000107
- Electoral ward
- Stone Castle · E05012405
- Parish or community
- E04012921
- Westminster constituency
- Dartford · E14001191
- Output area
- E00122714
- Lower layer super output area
- Dartford 006D · E01024172
- Middle layer super output area
- Dartford 006 · E02005033
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 DA2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 13
- 713 m
Stone Lodge School
Free schools
- 1.1 km
St Anselm's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.1 km
The Gateway Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,783
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,245
- Criminal damage and arson 283
- Anti social behaviour 279
- Shoplifting 218
- Vehicle crime 182
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DA2 6 residents
- 10,976
Age bands in DA2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.7%
2,464 residents
1,160 residents
3,398 residents
2,853 residents
1,702 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.
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
11
within 5 km
TEMPLE HILL SURGERY
ST EDMUNDS CHURCH LIVING, ST. EDMUNDS ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 5ND
ODS code G82647
1.2 km
DR CJ SHIMMINS & PARTNERS
PILGRIMS WAY, DARTFORD, DA1 1QY
ODS code G82006
1.5 km
PILGRIMS WAY SURGERY
DARTFORD EAST HEALTH CENTRE, DARTFORD, DA1 1QY
ODS code G82212
1.5 km
LOWFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
65-67 LOWFIELD STREET, DARTFORD, DA1 1HP
ODS code G82143
2.5 km
HORSMAN'S PLACE SURGERY
HORSMANS PLACE, INSTONE ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2JP
ODS code G82048
2.5 km
REDWOOD PRACTICE
DARTFORD WEST HEALTH CENTRE, TOWER ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2HA
ODS code G82185
2.9 km
THE WELLCOME PRACTICE
DARTFORD WEST HEALTH CENTRE, TOWER ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2HA
ODS code G82056
2.9 km
PURFLEET CARE CENTRE
TANK HILL ROAD, PURFLEET, RM19 1SX
ODS code Y00033
4.2 km
SWANSCOMBE HEALTH CENTRE
BEAN VILLAGE SURGERY, SOUTHFLEET ROAD, BEAN, DARTFORD, DA2 8BS
ODS code G82122
4.2 km
SLADE GREEN MEDICAL CTR.
156 BRIDGE ROAD, SLADE GREEN, ERITH, DA8 2HS
ODS code G83062
4.4 km
CRAYFORD TOWN SURGERY
CRAYFORD ROAD, (NEXT TO TOWN HALL), DARTFORD, DA1 4ER
ODS code G83642
4.6 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Crossways Boulevard
BCT · Dartford
- 0.3 miles
Crossways Boulevard
BCT · Dartford
- 0.4 miles
Galleon Boulevard
BCT · Dartford
- 0.4 miles
Bridges Drive
BCT · Temple Hill
- 0.4 miles
Galleon Boulevard
BCT · Dartford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dartford 006D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,732 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
2,783 published events cover 12 months, averaging 231.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,245 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.