Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Steephill School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DA2 8UA
Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet · Dartford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DA2 8UA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- DA
- Postcode district
- DA2
- Postcode sector
- DA2 8
- Latitude
- 51.400814
- Longitude
- 0.285530
- British National Grid easting
- 559,079
- British National Grid northing
- 169,343
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Dartford · E07000107
- Electoral ward
- Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet · E05012401
- Parish or community
- E04012919
- Westminster constituency
- Dartford · E14001191
- Output area
- E00122641
- Lower layer super output area
- Dartford 013B · E01024158
- Middle layer super output area
- Dartford 013 · E02005040
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
- 25
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.5 km
Steephill School
Other independent school
- 1.6 km
Leigh Academy Longfield
Academy sponsor led
- 2.2 km
Greenlands Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 371
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 160
- Violence and sexual offences 57
- Anti social behaviour 38
- Criminal damage and arson 33
- Other theft 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DA2 8 residents
- 2,038
Age bands in DA2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
301 residents
156 residents
427 residents
409 residents
345 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
JUBILEE MEDICAL CENTRE
KENT HOUSE SURGERY, 36 STATION ROAD, LONGFIELD, DA3 7QD
ODS code G82097
1.1 km
SWANSCOMBE HEALTH CENTRE
BEAN VILLAGE SURGERY, SOUTHFLEET ROAD, BEAN, DARTFORD, DA2 8BS
ODS code G82122
2.7 km
RIVER DARENT MEDICAL GROUP
GORSE HILL, FARNINGHAM, DARTFORD, DA4 0JU
ODS code G82218
4.7 km
DOWNS WAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
WORCESTER CLOSE, ISTEAD RISE, GRAVESEND, DA13 9LB
ODS code G82809
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Mile End Green
BCT · Longfield
- 0.2 miles
Mile End Green
BCT · Longfield
- 0.5 miles
Gill's Road
BCT · Green Street Green
- 0.5 miles
Gill's Road
BCT · Green Street Green
- 0.5 miles
Whitehill Crossroads
BCT · Longfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dartford 013B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,096 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
371 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 160 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.