DA2 postcode district: Dartford and around, Kent

DA2 is a postcode district in Kent, with 516 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Dartford, Joyden's Wood, Hextable and 1 more place. It is split between 2 councils: Dartford (513 postcodes) and Sevenoaks (3).

Postcodes in use: 516
Sectors: 3
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 4 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in DA2, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 125
Some can get gigabit: 102
Every home and business can get gigabit: 279
Ofcom gives no figure: 10
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 516 postcodes in DA2 that ONS places, 125 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 102 have some that can, 279 can all get it and 10 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.4325, longitude 0.2337. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

125 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

DA2 6BN DA2 6BU DA2 6DP DA2 6DY DA2 6EA DA2 6FU DA2 6FY DA2 6HH DA2 6JB DA2 6LZ DA2 6PB DA2 6PH

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

33 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. DA2 7RR, is the one nearest the middle of them.
27 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. DA2 6RL, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in DA2?

Ofcom reports on 506 of the 516 postcodes in DA2. At 279 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit279 of 506

Postcodes where every home can get superfast455 of 506

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband2 of 506

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is DA2 at risk of flooding?

34 of the 516 postcodes in DA2 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 11 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 34 of 516 postcodes High: 4Medium: 7Low: 33Very low: 525

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in DA2?

Homes in DA2 sold for a typical £395,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 233 sales, down 1.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£395,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£400,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 1.2% on the 12 months before

Detached £680,000 33 sales
Semi-detached £425,000 95 sales
Terraced £356,000 68 sales
Flat or maisonette £248,500 37 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it