Property market
The five-year median is £253,300 from 5 recorded sales in DA8 1AE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bexley is £405,477 in June 2026, up 1.2% year on year.
DA8 1AE
Erith · Bexley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DA8 1AE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DA
- Postcode district
- DA8
- Postcode sector
- DA8 1
- Latitude
- 51.482819
- Longitude
- 0.177124
- British National Grid easting
- 551,268
- British National Grid northing
- 178,232
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Bexley · E09000004
- Electoral ward
- Erith · E05011225
- Parish or community
- E43000194
- Westminster constituency
- Erith and Thamesmead · E14001229
- Output area
- E00166769
- Lower layer super output area
- Bexley 004A · E01000403
- Middle layer super output area
- Bexley 004 · E02000068
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 DA8
Property
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Wharf House, 1, Flat 27, West Street, Erith, DA8 1AE | 12 September 2024 | £150,000 |
| Wharf House, 1, Flat 12, West Street, Erith, DA8 1AE | 22 March 2024 | £253,300 |
| Wharf House, 1, Flat 5, West Street, Erith, DA8 1AE | 9 February 2024 | £262,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 85
- Primary
- 57
- Secondary
- 15
- 604 m
Christ Church (Erith) CofE Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 881 m
Lime Wood Primary School
Free schools
- 1.2 km
St Fidelis Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,144
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,171
- Anti social behaviour 483
- Criminal damage and arson 239
- Public order 225
- Vehicle crime 212
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 87
- Postcode households
- 42
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- DA8 1 residents
- 14,579
46 female, 41 male
Age bands in DA8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.6%
3,530 residents
1,778 residents
4,423 residents
3,636 residents
1,749 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DA8 1 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+
- 28.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 28.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 28.9%
- 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
19
within 5 km
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
ERITH HEALTH CENTRE, 50 PIER ROAD, ERITH, DA8 1RQ
ODS code G83630
433 m
NORTHUMBERLAND HEATH MED.CTR.
HIND CRESCENT, NORTHUMBERLAND HEATH, ERITH, DA8 3DB
ODS code G83010
1.0 km
SLADE GREEN MEDICAL CTR.
156 BRIDGE ROAD, SLADE GREEN, ERITH, DA8 2HS
ODS code G83062
1.6 km
BELVEDERE MEDICAL CENTRE
15 ALBERT ROAD, BELVEDERE, DA17 5LQ
ODS code G83052
2.3 km
LYNDHURST ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
41 LYNDHURST ROAD, BARNEHURST, BEXLEYHEATH, DA7 6DL
ODS code G83049
2.7 km
DR DAVIES & PARTNER
55 LITTLE HEATH ROAD, BEXLEYHEATH, DA7 5HL
ODS code G83033
2.9 km
BEXLEY MEDICAL GROUP
171 KING HAROLDS WAY, BEXLEYHEATH, DA7 5RB
ODS code G83053
3.5 km
CRAYFORD TOWN SURGERY
CRAYFORD ROAD, (NEXT TO TOWN HALL), DARTFORD, DA1 4ER
ODS code G83642
3.6 km
THE ALBION SURGERY
6 PINCOTT ROAD, BEXLEYHEATH, DA6 7LP
ODS code G83006
3.8 km
LAKESIDE MEDICAL
LAKESIDE HEALTH CENTRE, YARNTON WAY, LONDON, SE2 9LH
ODS code G83018
4.1 km
PURFLEET CARE CENTRE
TANK HILL ROAD, PURFLEET, RM19 1SX
ODS code Y00033
4.1 km
RAINHAM HEALTH CENTRE
UPMINSTER ROAD SOUTH, RAINHAM, RM13 9AB
ODS code F82627
4.3 km
ABBEY WOOD SURGERY
9 GODSTOW ROAD, ABBEY WOOD, LONDON, SE2 9AT
ODS code G83031
4.5 km
REDWOOD PRACTICE
DARTFORD WEST HEALTH CENTRE, TOWER ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2HA
ODS code G82185
4.6 km
THE WELLCOME PRACTICE
DARTFORD WEST HEALTH CENTRE, TOWER ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 2HA
ODS code G82056
4.6 km
BEAM PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAM PARK HEALTH CENTRE, 2 HALEWOOD WAY, RAINHAM, RM13 8QZ
ODS code Y08371
4.7 km
ABBEYSLADE PMS (DR CHAND)
111 BASILDON ROAD, ABBEY WOOD, LONDON, SE2 0ER
ODS code G83631
4.9 km
TEMPLE HILL SURGERY
ST EDMUNDS CHURCH LIVING, ST. EDMUNDS ROAD, DARTFORD, DA1 5ND
ODS code G82647
5.0 km
PLAS MEDDYG SURGERY
40 PARKHILL ROAD, BEXLEY, DA5 1HU
ODS code G83029
5.0 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
- 0.0 miles
Erith High Street
BCT · Erith
- 0.1 miles
Erith Station / West Street
BCT · Erith
- 0.1 miles
Walnut Tree Road (DA8)
BCT · Erith
- 0.1 miles
Erith
RSE · Erith
- 0.1 miles
Erith
RSE · Erith
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bexley 004A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,964 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
85 open schools are in scope, including 57 primary and 15 secondary schools. Christ Church (Erith) CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 604 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,144 published events cover 12 months, averaging 262 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,171 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.