Dartford
TownTown in Dartford, South East.
Dartford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dartford add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 94% of people in Dartford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dartford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dartford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dartford at a rate of 100.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 632 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dartford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,592), anti-social behaviour (1,260) and other crime (1,128).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dartford was 106.7 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Dartford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dartford has no single figure. Of its 40 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dartford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartford 001C | 1,347 | 101.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dartford 001D | 2,522 | 106.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.8% |
| Dartford 001E | 1,618 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| Dartford 001F | 1,690 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 76.2% |
| Dartford 001G | 1,579 | 76.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.9% |
| Dartford 001H | 1,240 | 112.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.8% |
| Dartford 001I | 1,268 | 240.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.9% |
| Dartford 001J | 1,482 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.7% |
| Dartford 001K | 1,622 | 53.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.9% |
| Dartford 003A | 2,417 | 108.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 65.6% |
| Dartford 003B | 2,076 | 128.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.9% |
| Dartford 003C | 1,812 | 575.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 78.4% |
| Dartford 003D | 1,438 | 38.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Dartford 003E | 2,152 | 31.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 75.9% |
| Dartford 003F | 2,308 | 56.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 76.6% |
| Dartford 005A | 1,678 | 71.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 77.8% |
| Dartford 005B | 2,059 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Dartford 005C | 2,106 | 249.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 50.9% |
| Dartford 005D | 1,907 | 71.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.3% |
| Dartford 005E | 1,977 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.7% |
| Dartford 006A | 2,290 | 115.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.9% |
| Dartford 006B | 1,576 | 124.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.6% |
| Dartford 007A | 1,497 | 82.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| Dartford 007B | 1,655 | 53.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.7% |
| Dartford 007C | 1,440 | 30.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.6% |
| Dartford 007D | 1,770 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Dartford 007E | 1,365 | 34.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Dartford 008A | 1,367 | 200.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 75.1% |
| Dartford 008B | 1,524 | 115.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 75.7% |
| Dartford 008C | 1,915 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.3% |
| Dartford 008D | 1,911 | 70.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 74.1% |
| Dartford 008E | 1,822 | 22.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Dartford 009A | 1,693 | 67.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 71.0% |
| Dartford 009B | 1,715 | 60.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Dartford 009C | 2,076 | 159.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.6% |
| Dartford 009D | 1,249 | 90.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.2% |
| Dartford 010C | 2,728 | 74.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.6% |
| Dartford 011B | 1,179 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 77.0% |
| Dartford 011C | 1,469 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.1% |
| Dartford 011D | 1,541 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 72.8% |
Your MP
- Jim DicksonLabourMP for Dartford
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Dartford2
Middle areas in Dartford7
Towns near Dartford6
Dartford in brief
Dartford is a town in Dartford, South East.
About 73,017 people lived in Dartford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £380,000 in 2025 across 800 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dartford was £380,000 in 2025.
Dartford had 69,131 usual residents at the census.
About 94% of people in Dartford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dartford, 85.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.