DA1 9XT Dartford

Streets

• West Hill, Dartford: 1 address

Council tax

What each band costs in Dartford in 2026-27: Band D £2,375 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (40% of about 970 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 1.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): HMO Article 4(1) Direction North Order 2025.
• Tree preservation orders: 11 protected trees within 100 m of this postcode.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• RANGE OF FORMER DARTFORD UNION WORKHOUSE FACING ON TO WEST HILL, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• 52 - 62 West Hill / C Pearson E Bates Storage Yard And Workshops, West Hill, Dartford DA1 2EU: up to 39 homes, permissioned (70 m)
• West Hill House, West Hill, Dartford: up to 33 homes, permissioned (130 m)
• Unit 4, Twistleton Court, Priory Hill, Dartford: up to 6 homes, not permissioned (130 m)
• Dartford Magistrates Court, Highfield Road, Dartford DA1 2JW: up to 25 homes, not permissioned (180 m)
• Land At Highfield House, 2-4 West Hill And 74-76 Spital Street, Dartford: up to 23 homes, permissioned (220 m)
• Land to the rear of 62-66 Spital Street, Dartford DA1 2DT: up to 28 homes, not permissioned (280 m)
• Westminster Care, 12 Westgate Road, Dartford, DA1 2AT: up to 6 homes, permissioned (300 m)
• 52 Spital Street, Dartford DA1 2DT: up to 14 homes, not permissioned (310 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 321 residents in 131 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Homes

Work and commuting

Education and languages

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.