Cross Road Dartford

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (DA1), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 10500167.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £432,500 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Dartford cost £342,167 in August 2026 (-4.9% on a year); private rents averaged £1,580 a month.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Heath Lane, is 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 0 times (0 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A226, carries 12,735 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Dartford costs £2,375 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dartford, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Heath Lane Open Space, is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 28 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 8 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Wellcome Practice, about 300 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 55 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 3 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20211£432,500£432,500£432,500
20181£490,000£490,000£490,000
20151£310,000£310,000£310,000
All 3 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Feb 20211 DA1 3ETDetached£432,500
1 Nov 20184 DA1 3ETSemi-detached£490,000
13 Feb 20154 DA1 3ETSemi-detached£310,000

House prices and rents in Dartford

A typical home in Dartford cost £342,167 in August 2026, 4.9% less than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 17% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£686,978
Semi-detached£419,890
Terraced£337,535
Flat or maisonette£203,885
Bought by a first-time buyer£297,477

Private renters in Dartford paid £1,580 a month on average in September 2026, 3.2% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,095
Two bedrooms£1,424
Three bedrooms£1,716
Four or more bedrooms£2,377

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (1); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (1); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,596 kWh of it on average in 2024, 22% more than the district's 10,325 kWh, and 2,625 kWh of electricity, 15% less than the district's 3,099 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DA1 3ET53,407 kWh 517,514 kWh
DA1 3EJ341,798 kWh 3410,262 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is DA1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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.

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£1,583£1,847£2,111£2,375£2,903£3,431£3,959£4,750

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 1,510 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): HMO Article 4(1) Direction North Order 2025.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Longreach STW - extension Dartford DA/12/1170 Sewage Sludge Digestion 1.1 MW Operational Jul 2014 3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Rainham Phase II Havering P1275.96 Landfill Gas 17 MW Operational Apr 2000 5 km (3.1 miles)
Rainham Landfill Scheme, Phase I Landfill Gas 3.9 MW Operational Feb 2000 5 km (3.1 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

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

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
DA1 3ETnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
DA1 3EJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 0 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Darent.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Priory Road, Dartford (Foul) Thames Water Darent 0 0 850 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 410 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Heath Lane Dartford, Kent until 1969 Inert, commercial, household; gas control on site 410 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 8 addresses are between 28 m and 29 m above sea level (28 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
DA1 3EJ100%100%100%0%
DA1 3ET100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsDartford 4.8 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Crayford 1.1 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Slade Green 1.1 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West Hill Primary Academy Dartford140 m
Bus or coach stationStone Crossing - Horns Cross4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Car parksApcoa950 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station820 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12.2 km (7.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW42.7 km (27 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Wellcome Practice Good May 2019300 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest M.d.moore Pharmacy370 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dartford Road Dental Centre110 m
HospitalPhysio Livingstone Community Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Hill Care Home Inadequate Feb 2026500 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM270 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Heath Lane Open Space 6.0 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 90 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,560 m²310 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dartford Road Allotments 2.8 ha300 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 6.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Priory Farmhouse Containing the Remains of Dartford Priory Gatehouse, a listed building (Grade II*), 800 m (0.5 miles) east. 26 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Priory Farmhouse Containing the Remains of Dartford Priory GatehouseListed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) east
Hall PlaceRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brickhill WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
The DellHollow1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Crayford CreekTidal water1.5 km (1 mile) north
Dartford Fresh MarshesWetland1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Brooklands LakeLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Great MountHill3.2 km (2 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)14.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 5568

2 of the street's 8 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Dartford: see them on the Dartford page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
West Hill Primary AcademyPrimary5–11170 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Dartford Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18190 m Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 78.9 (79.9 in 2025 and 78.4 in 2024); 99.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
Dartford Grammar School for GirlsSecondary11–18260 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 77.3 (75.5 in 2025 and 75.3 in 2024); 97.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 19.9% AAB or better; progress below average
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Dartford Roman CatholicPrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 85% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24% at the higher standard (2025; 88% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
Dartford Science & Technology CollegeSecondary11–18420 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.1 (49.1 in 2025 and 42.1 in 2024); 53.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
Westgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 90% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 87% in 2024 and 87% in 2023)
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, DartfordPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Wentworth Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
Oakfield Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
North Kent College16 plus16–991.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection None published
Haberdashers' Crayford PrimaryPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
River Mill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 27% at the higher standard (2025)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1 km (0.6 miles); the nearest is 90 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Dartford Kumon Centre DA1 3DH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 90 m
Christchurch Pre-School (Dartford) Ltd DA1 3DH Sessional day care 40 Good (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 90 m
West Hill Life Limited DA1 2HX Out-of-school day care 35 Not inspected yet 400 m (0.2 miles)
The Chapel Nursery DA1 2GA Full day care 74 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 500 m (0.3 miles)
Broomhill Playgroup DA1 3HT Full day care 30 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
Rainbow Day Nursery DA1 2LP Full day care 124 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 650 m (0.4 miles)
Highfield Road Pre-school DA1 2JY Sessional day care 34 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 700 m (0.4 miles)
West Hill Life Ltd DA1 5AF Out-of-school day care 25 Not inspected yet 810 m (0.5 miles)
Toybox Pre-School DA1 3NG Full day care 26 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 910 m (0.6 miles)
Star Kids Children's Nursery DA1 1BE Full day care 32 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 757 childminders and 217 home childcarers (nannies) in Kent. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Dartford Convenience Store DA1 3EGRetailers - other110 m4 Good14 Dec 2023
Blue Sky Chinese Take Away DA1 3EGTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Mar 2026
Christchurch Pre-School DA1 3DHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Golden Thread Alliance @ West Hill Primary Academy DA1 3DZSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good25 Jun 2026
West Hill Chill Breakfast And Afterschool Club DA1 3DZSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Harvester Restaurant DA1 3EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good2 Dec 2025
Shreeji Newsagents DA1 2NYRetailers - other250 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Sep 2026
Luxmi Food & Wine DA1 2NYRetailers - other250 m5 Very good20 Mar 2024
Shepherds Chicken And Pizza DA1 2NYTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m4 Good8 Apr 2026
Impact Food Group @ Dartford Grammar School For Girls DA1 2NTSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
KBK Nigerian Cuisine Dartford DA1 3DWOther catering premises270 m5 Very good7 Aug 2025
The Ship Public House DA1 3ERPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good14 May 2025
Ming Tak Inn DA1 3ERTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good23 Sep 2025
Mumbai Spice DA1 3ERTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good2 Jul 2025
Pizza Time DA1 3ERTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Sep 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

55 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Vehicle crime7
Anti-social behaviour5
Public order4
Other theft4
Other crime2
Criminal damage and arson2
Drugs2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wellington Road (17); On or near The Homestead (16); On or near Nelson Road (6); On or near Marlborough Road (5); On or near Blenheim Road (5).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 3 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 3 involved a child under 16. 40% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202342
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
6 Oct 2023 17:13 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A226, 30 mph Daylight
16 Sep 2023 20:11 Serious 1 person A226, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
23 Jun 2023 08:40 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A226, 30 mph Daylight
13 Jan 2023 17:55 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A226, 30 mph Dark, street lights off
16 Sep 2021 17:45 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 40 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A226 between A2018 and A226 Highfield Road North, with 12,735 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 420 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A226 LA Boundary to A2018 9,332 estimated; counted 2019 1% -2% since 2015 180 m
A226 A2018 to A226 Highfield Road North 12,735 estimated; counted 2023 1% -3% since 2015 420 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 704 residents in 257 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

Around this streetEngland
Median age3840
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram10%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 9 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.

What has changed

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Wellington Road · Blenheim Close · Blenheim Road · Nelson Road · Marlborough Road · Christchurch Road · Lawrence Hill Road · Devonshire Avenue · Sullivan Close · Lawrence Hill Gardens · The Homestead · Pencroft Drive

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What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.