Townhall Square Crayford, Bexley

1 address across 1 postcode (DA1), about 200 m long. USRN 20101341.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £265,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 91 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Bexley costs £2,366 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Crayford, about 90 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 280 m away, and Dartford Heath (171 hectares) is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Crayford Town Surgery, about 170 m away.
  • People: About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 14% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 135 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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
20241£265,000£265,000£265,000
20201£108,000£108,000£108,000
20191£137,500£137,500£137,500
20183£133,750£108,000£240,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Dec 2024161 DA1 4FJFlat or maisonette£265,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 2020163 DA1 4FJFlat or maisonette£108,000Leasehold.
24 May 2019133 DA1 4FJFlat or maisonette£137,500Leasehold.
5 Dec 2018163 DA1 4FJFlat or maisonette£108,000Leasehold.
4 May 2018155 DA1 4FJFlat or maisonette£133,750Leasehold.
19 Jan 2018161 DA1 4FJFlat or maisonette£240,000Leasehold.

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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Bexley in 2026-27: Band D £2,366 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,103£2,366£2,892£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (47% of about 680 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 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: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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.

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, 41 addresses are in areas at high risk, 50 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: of the 91 homes the Environment Agency counts, 41 are in areas at high risk, 50 medium, 0 low and 0 very low.

Groundwater flooding is possible in this postcode: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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.

© 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.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 8 m above sea level.

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 4FJ100%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 stationsCrayford 1.1 million journeys in 2024–2590 m
Slade Green 1.1 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Barnehurst 956,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crayford Station90 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Hurst Road/Valentine Avenue Sidcup3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth8.7 km (5.4 miles)
Car parksAlbion Road Car Park2.2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points15 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smart Charge Charging Station160 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY10.7 km (6.7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW42 km (26 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. 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Crayford Town Surgery170 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Station Road Pharmacy150 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery270 m
HospitalKings @ Erith & District Hospital3.3 km (2 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Chastilian Road1 km (0.6 miles)

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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,510 m²280 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Dartford Heath 171 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²710 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 7,730 m²840 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bourne Road Allotments 1.5 ha690 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 192 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Paulinus, a listed building (Grade II*), 770 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St PaulinusListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Hall PlaceRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.8 miles) west
Hall PlaceScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The DellHollow890 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Bigs Hill WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Crayford CreekTidal water2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Dartford Fresh MarshesWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Brooklands LakeLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) south-east
Great MountHill3.3 km (2.1 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)13.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.3205
Particles (PM10)13.34015

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
65 to 6901
Under 5510

1 of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from railways, 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 Bexley: see them on the Bexley page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Paulinus Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Haberdashers' Crayford AcademySecondary11–18750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wentworth Primary SchoolPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Haberdashers' Crayford PrimaryPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mayplace Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
West Hill Primary AcademyPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
St Catherine's Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Columba's Catholic Boys' School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Dartford Grammar School for GirlsSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) 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
Dartford Science & Technology CollegeSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 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
Dartford Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Curry X Press DA1 3QATakeaway/sandwich shop110 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Sep 2025
Sushi Gourmet At Sainsbury's DA1 4HNRetailers - other120 m5 Very good27 Jul 2025
Rest Hub GBK Eds Slims Harrys Caffe/ Slice And Bite Pizza DA1 4HNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good10 Aug 2026
MRAS Off Licence DA1 3QARetailers - other150 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Dec 2024
Classic News DA1 3QARetailers - other150 m5 Very good9 Feb 2026
Spice Fusion DA1 3QARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Jun 2026
New 128 Chinese DA1 4ERTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m3 Generally satisfactory20 May 2026
Hippie Chippy DA1 3QATakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good14 Apr 2025
The Cottage Nursery DA1 3PYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good27 Aug 2026
Card Factory DA1 4LDRetailers - other230 mExempt
Greggs DA1 4LBRetailers - other240 m5 Very good1 May 2025
Royals DA1 4ASRetailers - other240 m5 Very good28 Oct 2026
Taco Bell DA1 4LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good27 Jul 2026
Bubble And Squeak Cafe DA1 4ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Apr 2026
Iceland DA1 4ESRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets260 m5 Very good27 Feb 2024

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.

135 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences32
Shoplifting23
Anti-social behaviour19
Other theft16
Criminal damage and arson11
Vehicle crime8
Drugs7
Burglary6
Public order4
Robbery4
Possession of weapons3
Theft from the person2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (76); On or near Station Road (19); On or near Ridge Avenue (11); On or near Crayford (10); On or near Petrol Station (6).

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 street's postcodes are in: 441 residents in 195 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 age3140
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)14%61%
Owned outright2%33%
Shared ownership31%1%
Social rented37%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)3%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van32%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram19%4%
By any public transport, including bus29%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Crayford Tandoori (restaurant/cafe/canteen, DA1 4JJ) is no longer listed; it was rated 3 Generally satisfactory found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Royals (retailers - other, DA1 4AS) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 28 October 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings New Phoenix (takeaway/sandwich shop, DA1 4JD) now 5 Very good, was 2 Improvement necessary (rated 28 October 2026) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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.

  • DA1 4FJ: 1 address of 98 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lower Station Road · Townhall Square · Ridgeway · Stadium Way · Ridge Avenue · Station Road · Heathview Avenue · Crayford Road · Ridge Way · Dale Close · Royston Road · Heathlee Road

All the streets in DA1 and across Bexley.

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.
  • 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.