Gravesend
Gravesend is covered by postcode districts DA11 and DA12. It is in the Gravesham council area, Kent.
Every postcode in Gravesend, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 66
- In use before 2020: 1,077
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 1,143 postcodes in Gravesend that ONS places, 66 are new since 2020 and 1,077 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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 51.4307, longitude 0.3792. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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
The 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Gravesend?
Homes sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.5% on the 12 months before. At 856 of the 1,084 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 311 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 112 of its 1,143 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Gravesend, 1.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Gravesend?
Homes in Gravesend sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 494 sales, up 4.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £508,500 56 sales
- Semi-detached £400,000 155 sales
- Terraced £334,000 210 sales
- Flat or maisonette £180,000 73 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole DA12 district, Gravesend's main postcode district: a typical £352,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Gravesend: 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
Are new homes being built in Gravesend?
66 of the 1,143 postcodes now in use in Gravesend came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 13 of the 647 homes sold in Gravesend were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DA12 district, Under 1%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Gravesend | Across the DA12 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 1 of 494 (Under 1%) | 0 of 398 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 13 of 647 (2%) | 1 of 545 (Under 1%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Gravesend?
Ofcom reports on 1,084 of the 1,143 postcodes in Gravesend. At 856 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Gravesend at risk of flooding?
112 of the 1,143 postcodes in Gravesend 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 311 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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
Which schools are in Gravesend?
The open schools at the postcodes in Gravesend (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Whitehill Primary School450 m 515 pupils, 630 places
- St John's Catholic Primary School, Gravesend850 m 869 pupils, 854 places
- Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School850 m 458 pupils, 470 places
- Westcourt Primary School900 m 285 pupils, 240 places
- Wrotham Road Primary School1.1 km 454 pupils, 420 places
- Chantry Community Primary School1.2 km 441 pupils, 420 places
- Tymberwood Academy1.3 km 394 pupils, 420 places
- Saint George's Church of England School1.3 km 1,631 pupils, 1,410 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Gravesend?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Gravesend is Gravesend Rail Station, 1.5 km away in a straight line.
- Gravesend Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
- Tilbury Town Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
- Northfleet Rail Station Railway station 4.2 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Gravesend?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Gravesend, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Old Road West Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 01474 352075 900 mWalk
- Rochester Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01474 560346 900 mWalk
- Oakfield Health Centre, Practice 2 Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report November 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01474 537123 1.2 kmCycle
- Parrock Street Surgery Phone 01474 567888 1.3 kmCycle
- Pelham Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01474 355331 1.5 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Gravesend safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 5,213 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Gravesend over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 440 September 2025
- 417 October 2025
- 412 November 2025
- 446 December 2025
- 408 January 2026
- 401 February 2026
- 472 March 2026
- 435 April 2026
- 432 May 2026
- 407 June 2026
- 480 July 2026
- 463 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 139, other crime 127, robbery 76, possession of weapons 65, theft from the person 36, bicycle theft 28.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Gravesend?
- District, borough or city council
- Gravesham
- County council
- Kent
- Parliamentary constituency
- Gravesham
- Police force area
- Kent
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
- MP
- Dr Lauren Sullivan (Labour)
All 1,143 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources
Moving to Gravesend
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Gravesham about council tax Council tax, on gravesham.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Gravesend
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Gravesend postcodes
1,143 postcodes in use in Gravesend, by district:
Those districts are all in the DA postcode area.
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Places near Gravesend
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Gravesend's £350,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Gravesend
- What is it like to live in Gravesend?
- Homes sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.5% on the 12 months before. At 856 of the 1,084 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 311 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 112 of its 1,143 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Gravesend, 1.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Gravesend?
- Gravesend is covered by postcode districts DA11 and DA12, across 1,143 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Gravesend in?
- Gravesend is in the Gravesham council area, and Kent is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Gravesend?
- Gravesend is in the Gravesham parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Dr Lauren Sullivan (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Gravesend?
- Homes in Gravesend sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 494 sales, up 4.5% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Gravesend?
- In Gravesend, primary schools at its postcodes include Whitehill Primary School, St John's Catholic Primary School, Gravesend and Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include St John's Catholic Comprehensive, Gravesend Grammar School and Estuary Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Gravesend have a railway station?
- Yes: Gravesend is 1.5 km from the centre point of the postcodes in Gravesend, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Gravesend?
- Ofcom reports on 1,084 of the 1,143 postcodes in Gravesend. At 856 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Gravesend at risk of flooding?
- 112 of the 1,143 postcodes in Gravesend 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 311 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Gravesend?
- 66 of the 1,143 postcodes now in use in Gravesend came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 13 of the 647 homes sold in Gravesend were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DA12 district, Under 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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