Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Steephill School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DA3 7FA
Farningham, Horton Kirby and South Darenth · Sevenoaks · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DA3 7FA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DA
- Postcode district
- DA3
- Postcode sector
- DA3 7
- Latitude
- 51.398100
- Longitude
- 0.292339
- British National Grid easting
- 559,562
- British National Grid northing
- 169,056
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Sevenoaks · E07000111
- Electoral ward
- Farningham, Horton Kirby and South Darenth · E05005016
- Parish or community
- E04004996
- Westminster constituency
- Sevenoaks · E14001465
- Output area
- E00124032
- Lower layer super output area
- Sevenoaks 005D · E01024434
- Middle layer super output area
- Sevenoaks 005 · E02005091
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
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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.0 km
Steephill School
Other independent school
- 1.0 km
Leigh Academy Longfield
Academy sponsor led
- 1.8 km
Leigh Academy Hartley
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 550
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 161
- Violence and sexual offences 142
- Anti social behaviour 69
- Criminal damage and arson 58
- Other theft 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DA3 7 residents
- 8,431
Age bands in DA3 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.9%
1,210 residents
742 residents
1,511 residents
2,157 residents
2,393 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
JUBILEE MEDICAL CENTRE
KENT HOUSE SURGERY, 36 STATION ROAD, LONGFIELD, DA3 7QD
ODS code G82097
555 m
SWANSCOMBE HEALTH CENTRE
BEAN VILLAGE SURGERY, SOUTHFLEET ROAD, BEAN, DARTFORD, DA2 8BS
ODS code G82122
3.0 km
DOWNS WAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
WORCESTER CLOSE, ISTEAD RISE, GRAVESEND, DA13 9LB
ODS code G82809
4.3 km
RIVER DARENT MEDICAL GROUP
GORSE HILL, FARNINGHAM, DARTFORD, DA4 0JU
ODS code G82218
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Whitehill Crossroads
BCT · Longfield
- 0.3 miles
Whitehill Crossroads
BCT · Longfield
- 0.3 miles
Mile End Green
BCT · Longfield
- 0.3 miles
Mile End Green
BCT · Longfield
- 0.3 miles
Essex Road
BCT · Longfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sevenoaks 005D, 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
15,510 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
550 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 161 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.