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Mapped groundwater source protection categories

Original published categories whose polygons intersect the official Otford and Kemsing settlement outline, including boundary contact.

These are original category codes and definitions from the retained Source Protection Zones (Merged) dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This is not a whole-town or property designation, a finding about a drinking-water supply, or evidence of contamination, water quality or risk. These definitions do not identify individual supplies. Dataset dates do not establish current legal status. Absence of a listed category does not establish that land or a property is outside a zone. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented. Precautionary groundwater abstraction and land-use designation at a postcode centroid, not an address-level finding or drinking-water quality result. Outside a mapped zone does not establish clean or unprotected groundwater. Welsh zones and the separate Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.

Dataset reference period: 2026-03-06. Downloaded 19 October 2026. Imported 19 October 2026.

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Environment Agency Source Protection Zones (Merged), catalogue updated 2026-09-18T14:48:13.047442 [944183eb46c5988c07824435de126dbe1684953cae7e4fb6a44dcd2f4d094b4c]
Area covered
Published English category polygons intersecting the official settlement outline, including boundary contact; not a whole-town, property or water-supply finding
Data date
2026-03-06
Added to AreaIndex
19 October 2026
Reuse licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Source credit
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.
File fingerprint
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172 active postcodes

England

Measures in this segment use sources cleared for England. Values are never borrowed across a national border.

01

Location & geography

Where this place is and the local areas used for figures in the rest of this report.

3figures

Income deprivation classification

Published area figureTown or built-up area

Lower deprivation

ONS grouping based on the relative income deprivation of the town

Source period
ONS towns classification, May 2026

A broad ONS town grouping, not an individual deprivation score and not a statement about every neighbourhood or resident.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Coastal classification

Published area figureTown or built-up area

Non-coastal

Whether ONS classifies this built-up area as coastal

Source period
ONS towns classification, May 2026

An ONS classification of the whole built-up area; it does not measure distance from a particular property to the coast.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Town size group

Published area figureTown or built-up area

Small

ONS size group based on Census 2021 population on the 2024 boundary

Source period
2021 population on 2024 built-up-area geography

The category uses Census 2021 population and the 2024 built-up-area boundary, so it is not a current population estimate.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

02

Homes & housing costs

Sold prices, rents, council tax, housing types and whether homes are owned or rented.

40figures

Bedrooms

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

4 or more bedrooms

374

3 bedrooms

200

2 bedrooms

65

1 bedroom

8

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Detached homes

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

35.0%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009D
75.5%
Median
35.0%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
4.2%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Flats and maisonettes

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

5.1%

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
7.6%
Median
5.1%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009B
1.1%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Semi-detached homes

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

34.0%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009A
63.8%
Median
34.0%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
15.6%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Terraced homes

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

16.4%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009C
24.2%
Median
16.4%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009B
1.4%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Average house price

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Across the whole local authority

Sevenoaks
£553,752
Source period
2026-05
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

An average across the entire local authority, which covers a wide mix of streets and property types. It is not an estimate for this postcode or for any individual home. The most recent months are revised as more sales register, so the figure can change.

Source and provenance

UK House Price Index — HM Land Registry / ONS / Registers of Scotland / LPS NI

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-UKHPI · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Median sale price

Published area figureTown or built-up area

£625,000

Median house price across transactions in the built-up area

Source period
2023

Published for 2023 and based on HM Land Registry-derived data across all accommodation types; it does not control for the mix of property types.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Annual house price change

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Change over the previous 12 months

Sevenoaks
3.9%
Source period
2026-05
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Change across the whole local authority over 12 months. Recent months are revised as sales register, so a change quoted today may move.

Source and provenance

UK House Price Index — HM Land Registry / ONS / Registers of Scotland / LPS NI

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-UKHPI · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Median sale price change, 2001 to 2023

Published area figureTown or built-up area

234.2%

Change in the published median house price over the period

Source period
2001 to 2023

A change between two annual medians across all accommodation types. Changes in the mix of homes sold can affect it.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Monthly sales volume

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Transactions registered in the local authority

Sevenoaks
77
Source period
2026-03
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Sales registered in the most recent month with complete data. Volumes lag because registration takes time, so the newest months always look low.

Source and provenance

UK House Price Index — HM Land Registry / ONS / Registers of Scotland / LPS NI

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-UKHPI · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Band D benchmark for local authority

Representative locationCouncil area

£2,522

The council tax on a Band D home in this council area

Source period
2026-27

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Band D is the benchmark councils are compared on, not the typical home: across most of England more dwellings sit in bands A to C than in D or above. The headline annual charge for this council area, adding together every body that precepts on the bill — the council, any county or combined authority, the police and fire authorities and the adult social care precept. In England and Wales it averages parish and community precepts across the authority, so a specific parish can be higher or lower. It is not what a household pays: single-person discounts, student and other exemptions, the disabled band reduction, second-home and empty-home premiums and Council Tax Reduction are in none of these tables and move a real bill further than the gap between two neighbouring councils. Bands themselves reflect 1991 values in England and Scotland and 2003 values in Wales.

Source and provenance

Council Tax bands and local charges — VOA / Welsh Gov / Scottish Assessors + local authorities

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-CTAX · Open Government Licence v3.0 (all four statistical publishers) · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Valuation Office Agency; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Welsh Government (StatsWales); Scottish Government

Registered sales over the last five years

Exact area totalPostcode

425

Standard residential sale registrations

Source period
July 2026
How calculated
Sum of complete unique source areas
Source areas
425 / 425

Exact town aggregate based on 425 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

Counts sales lodged with HM Land Registry for registration in the last five years, excluding repossessions and other Category B transfers. It is not every change of ownership: gifts, right-to-buy sales at a discount, transfers under court order and leases of seven years or less never appear. Registration lags completion by two weeks to two months, so the most recent months are always incomplete and this figure rises later.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Sum of complete unique source areas.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

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Median sale price over the last five years

Exact area totalPostcode

£615,000

Across standard residential sales in this postcode

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 425 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

A median of the standard residential sales registered in this postcode over five years, and nothing else. It is not a valuation, and it is not adjusted for the size, condition or type of the homes that happened to sell. Repossessions and other Category B transfers are excluded. Results based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning because one unusual property can move the median by tens of thousands.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

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Most common council tax band in this neighbourhood

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

G

The band the most homes here sit in

Source period
2026-27

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The single largest band among the homes in this neighbourhood, which says nothing about any particular home and can sit one band either side of the next largest. Scotland publishes its band mix by council rather than by neighbourhood, so this card is blank for a Scottish postcode rather than quietly widening to the council. This describes the mix of council tax bands across the whole neighbourhood, not this address: there is no public data feed of individual bands anywhere in Great Britain, and we do not hold one. To find the band of a particular property use the official checker at gov.uk/council-tax-bands, or the Scottish Assessors at saa.gov.uk. A band is fixed against what the property was worth on 1 April 1991 in England and Scotland, or 1 April 2003 in Wales, and has never been revalued in England or Scotland — it is not a current valuation and a low band is not a cheap house. Counts are rounded to the nearest 10 by the publisher and bands with fewer than five dwellings are withheld.

Source and provenance

Council Tax bands and local charges — VOA / Welsh Gov / Scottish Assessors + local authorities

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-CTAX · Open Government Licence v3.0 (all four statistical publishers) · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Valuation Office Agency; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Welsh Government (StatsWales); Scottish Government

Latest recorded sale

Exact area totalPostcode

£550,000

Price of the most recent registered sale

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 1 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

One transaction, on one property, on one day. It says nothing about the other homes in this postcode and is not a current value. The price is what the transfer deed stated; fixtures, fees and any separate land transaction are not in it.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UPRNs contain OS data © Crown copyright and database rights [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Share of homes in bands A to C

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

4.3%

The three lowest bands, as a share of all homes here

Source period
2026-27

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Bands A to C are the three lowest, which in England and Scotland means a 1991 value up to £68,000 and in Wales a 2003 value up to £91,000. Bands holding fewer than five homes are withheld by the publisher and are missing from both the top and the bottom of this share. Scotland publishes its band mix by council rather than by neighbourhood, so this card is blank for a Scottish postcode. This describes the mix of council tax bands across the whole neighbourhood, not this address: there is no public data feed of individual bands anywhere in Great Britain, and we do not hold one. To find the band of a particular property use the official checker at gov.uk/council-tax-bands, or the Scottish Assessors at saa.gov.uk. A band is fixed against what the property was worth on 1 April 1991 in England and Scotland, or 1 April 2003 in Wales, and has never been revalued in England or Scotland — it is not a current valuation and a low band is not a cheap house. Counts are rounded to the nearest 10 by the publisher and bands with fewer than five dwellings are withheld.

Source and provenance

Council Tax bands and local charges — VOA / Welsh Gov / Scottish Assessors + local authorities

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-CTAX · Open Government Licence v3.0 (all four statistical publishers) · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Valuation Office Agency; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Welsh Government (StatsWales); Scottish Government

Council tax in the lowest band

Representative locationCouncil area

£1,682

The annual charge on a Band A home in this council area

Source period
2026-27

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Band A is the lowest band a dwelling can be in. Wales also publishes an "A-" figure for the disabled band reduction, which is a reduction a household qualifies for rather than a band, and is excluded here so the three nations stay comparable. The headline annual charge for this council area, adding together every body that precepts on the bill — the council, any county or combined authority, the police and fire authorities and the adult social care precept. In England and Wales it averages parish and community precepts across the authority, so a specific parish can be higher or lower. It is not what a household pays: single-person discounts, student and other exemptions, the disabled band reduction, second-home and empty-home premiums and Council Tax Reduction are in none of these tables and move a real bill further than the gap between two neighbouring councils. Bands themselves reflect 1991 values in England and Scotland and 2003 values in Wales.

Source and provenance

Council Tax bands and local charges — VOA / Welsh Gov / Scottish Assessors + local authorities

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-CTAX · Open Government Licence v3.0 (all four statistical publishers) · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Valuation Office Agency; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Welsh Government (StatsWales); Scottish Government

Latest recorded sale date

Exact area totalPostcode

21 July 2026

Completion date of the most recent registered sale

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 1 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

The completion date on the transfer deed for the sale shown above, not the date it was registered. Registration follows completion by two weeks to two months, and longer for new builds, so a very recent sale may not be here yet.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UPRNs contain OS data © Crown copyright and database rights [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Council tax in the highest band

Representative locationCouncil area

£5,045

The annual charge on a top-band home in this council area

Source period
2026-27

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The top band is H in England and Scotland and I in Wales, so the Welsh figure covers a band the other two nations do not have. Scotland's band ratios were changed in 2017 to raise the top four bands relative to Band D, so a Scottish top-band charge is a larger multiple of its Band D than an English one. The headline annual charge for this council area, adding together every body that precepts on the bill — the council, any county or combined authority, the police and fire authorities and the adult social care precept. In England and Wales it averages parish and community precepts across the authority, so a specific parish can be higher or lower. It is not what a household pays: single-person discounts, student and other exemptions, the disabled band reduction, second-home and empty-home premiums and Council Tax Reduction are in none of these tables and move a real bill further than the gap between two neighbouring councils. Bands themselves reflect 1991 values in England and Scotland and 2003 values in Wales.

Source and provenance

Council Tax bands and local charges — VOA / Welsh Gov / Scottish Assessors + local authorities

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-CTAX · Open Government Licence v3.0 (all four statistical publishers) · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Valuation Office Agency; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Welsh Government (StatsWales); Scottish Government

New-build transaction share

Exact area totalPostcode

0.0%

Of standard sales in the last five years

Source period
July 2026
How calculated
Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators
Source areas
425 / 425

Exact town aggregate based on 425 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

The share of recent registered sales that HM Land Registry flagged as newly built. Plot sales on a new development are often registered late and in batches, so this understates building that has already happened. Results based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UPRNs contain OS data © Crown copyright and database rights [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold transaction share

Exact area totalPostcode

97.6%

Of standard sales in the last five years

Source period
July 2026
How calculated
Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators
Source areas
425 / 425

Exact town aggregate based on 425 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

The share of recent registered sales that were freehold rather than leasehold. This describes the transactions, not the buildings: a postcode of flats can show a high freehold share if the few houses in it are what changed hands. Leases of seven years or less are excluded from Price Paid entirely. Results based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UPRNs contain OS data © Crown copyright and database rights [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Detached median sale price

Exact area totalPostcode

£940,000

Registered detached sales over five years

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 165 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

Median across Category A HM Land Registry sales of this property type in the whole postcode sector over five years. Results based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning. It is not a valuation and excludes Category B transfers, gifts and short leases.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UPRNs contain OS data © Crown copyright and database rights [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Semi-detached median sale price

Exact area totalPostcode

£560,000

Registered semi-detached sales over five years

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 184 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

Median across Category A HM Land Registry sales of this property type in the whole postcode sector over five years. Results based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning. It is not a valuation and excludes Category B transfers, gifts and short leases.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UPRNs contain OS data © Crown copyright and database rights [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Terraced median sale price

Exact area totalPostcode

£407,500

Registered terraced sales over five years

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 66 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

Median across Category A HM Land Registry sales of this property type in the whole postcode sector over five years. Results based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning. It is not a valuation and excludes Category B transfers, gifts and short leases.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UPRNs contain OS data © Crown copyright and database rights [year of publication]. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Average monthly private rent

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Modelled rent level across the local authority

Sevenoaks
£1,803
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A modelled estimate for the whole local authority, covering existing tenancies as well as new lets — not an advertised rent and not a figure for this postcode. Private rentals only; social and council housing are excluded. ONS recalculate recent months every release, so this figure moves.

Source and provenance

Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-RENT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Flat and maisonette median sale price

Exact area totalPostcode

£308,000

Registered flat and maisonette sales over five years

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 10 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

Median across Category A HM Land Registry sales of this property type in the whole postcode sector over five years. Results based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning. It is not a valuation and excludes Category B transfers, gifts and short leases.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

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Annual private rent inflation

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Change over the previous twelve months

Sevenoaks
4.2%
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Change in the modelled rent level for the whole local authority over twelve months. Because it covers the whole rented stock rather than newly advertised properties, it lags what a mover would see when searching today.

Source and provenance

Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-RENT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Homes by tenure

Representative locationTown or built-up area

Households grouped by ownership or renting tenure

Mortgage, loan or shared ownership
1,055 (36.5%)
Owned outright
1,330 (46.0%)
Private rented or rent free
210 (7.3%)
Social rented
295 (10.2%)
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Reading at the representative postcode

Category counts are summed from wholly contained source areas; published disclosure-control adjustments are retained.

Census 2021 estimate published on the 2022 built-up-area boundary. Counts are rounded to the nearest five and may not match the current 2024 place boundary. This Census series cannot be made more recent between censuses.

Source and provenance

Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-ONS-BUA-CENSUS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Registered sales in the last 12 months

Exact area totalPostcode

76

Standard residential sale registrations

Source period
July 2026
How calculated
Sum of complete unique source areas
Source areas
76 / 76

Exact town aggregate based on 76 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

Computed from HM Land Registry Category A registrations in the whole postcode sector for the preceding 12 months. Recent months are incomplete because registration follows completion. Price summaries are suppressed below ten sales; the transaction count remains visible.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Sum of complete unique source areas.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

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Mean sale price in the last 12 months

Exact area totalPostcode

£742,893

Arithmetic mean of registered standard residential sales

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 76 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

Computed from HM Land Registry Category A registrations in the whole postcode sector for the preceding 12 months. Recent months are incomplete because registration follows completion. Price summaries based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning; the transaction count remains visible.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-PPD · Open Government Licence v3.0; separate HMLR and Ordnance Survey attribution applies to the UPRN lookup; Price Paid address-data conditions still apply when used together · imported 28 August 2026

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Change in private rents (index)

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

January 2023 = 100

Sevenoaks
118.853
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

An index, not a price: 110 means rents in this local authority are about a tenth above their January 2023 level. It says nothing about whether rents here are high or low, only how they have moved.

Source and provenance

Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-RENT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Average rent by property type

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Detached, semi-detached, terraced and flats

Sevenoaks
Detached
£2,741
Semi-detached
£1,896
Terraced
£1,650
Flat
£1,470
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Modelled rent levels for the whole local authority, split by property type. A type with too few records in an area is omitted rather than shown as zero.

Source and provenance

Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-RENT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Lowest sale price in the last 12 months

Exact area totalPostcode

£200,000

Lowest registered standard residential sale

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 76 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

Computed from HM Land Registry Category A registrations in the whole postcode sector for the preceding 12 months. Recent months are incomplete because registration follows completion. Price summaries based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning; the transaction count remains visible.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Average rent by bedroom count

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

One, two, three and four or more bedrooms

Sevenoaks
1 bed
£1,262
2 bed
£1,574
3 bed
£1,920
4+ bed
£2,943
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Modelled rent levels for the whole local authority, split by bedroom count. A size band with too few records in an area is omitted rather than shown as zero.

Source and provenance

Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-RENT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Highest sale price in the last 12 months

Exact area totalPostcode

£1,900,000

Highest registered standard residential sale

Source period
July 2026

Exact town aggregate based on 76 Category A HM Land Registry transactions across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. It is not a valuation; the time window is stated in the field label.

Computed from HM Land Registry Category A registrations in the whole postcode sector for the preceding 12 months. Recent months are incomplete because registration follows completion. Price summaries based on fewer than ten sales are shown with a low-sample warning; the transaction count remains visible.

Source and provenance

Price Paid Data — HM Land Registry

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Private rent trend over five years

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Change against the same month five years earlier

Sevenoaks
29.7%
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Our own comparison of the ONS modelled rent level for this local authority against its level five years earlier, not a figure ONS publish. Both endpoints are model output and are revised, and the change is in cash terms — it is not adjusted for inflation or for changes in what is being rented.

Source and provenance

Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-RENT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Median house price to workplace-based earnings ratio

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Years of local full-time earnings to buy a median-priced home

Sevenoaks
13.43
Source period
2025
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Median house price divided by median gross annual full-time earnings for jobs BASED in this local authority. It uses individual employee earnings, not household income, so it overstates the position for two-earner households, and it reflects neither deposits nor mortgage rates. Annual, with prices for the twelve months ending September of the reference year.

Source and provenance

Housing affordability in England and Wales — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-AFFORD · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Median house price to residence-based earnings ratio

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Years of residents’ full-time earnings to buy a median-priced home

Sevenoaks
10.77
Source period
2025
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

The same ratio measured against the earnings of people who LIVE here rather than those who work here. In commuter areas the two differ sharply, and neither is more correct — they answer different questions. Individual full-time employee earnings, not household income.

Source and provenance

Housing affordability in England and Wales — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-AFFORD · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Home-price-to-income ratio for lower-cost homes

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Cheaper homes against lower-quartile earnings

Sevenoaks
14.26
Source period
2025
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Lower quartile house price divided by lower quartile full-time earnings — the closest published proxy for a first-time buyer's position. Both quartiles are for the whole local authority and are not linked to each other: the people earning at the lower quartile are not necessarily the ones buying at it.

Source and provenance

Housing affordability in England and Wales — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-AFFORD · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Affordability trend over ten years

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Change in the workplace-based ratio against ten years earlier

Sevenoaks
-3.1%
Source period
2025
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Our own comparison of this local authority's workplace-based affordability ratio with its value ten years earlier, not a figure ONS publish. A rise means prices have grown faster than local earnings. Local authority boundaries have changed over that period, and where they have, the two endpoints are not describing quite the same area.

Source and provenance

Housing affordability in England and Wales — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

PROP-AFFORD · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

03

Home energy certificates

Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) lodged nearby, including ratings and estimated energy costs. Not every home has one.

28figures

Typical Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) band

Exact area totalPostcode

D

The commonest current band on certificates in this postcode

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The commonest band among the properties in this postcode that hold a certificate — not every home here, and not this home. Only properties sold, let or newly built since 2008 have an EPC, so a postcode of long-settled owners is represented by very few of its houses. Open the figure to see how many records it is based on.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Median energy-efficiency score

Exact area totalPostcode

66

Median SAP score across certificates in this postcode

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The median SAP score (1–100, where 92+ is band A) across the certificates lodged in this postcode, whenever they were lodged. A certificate from 2011 describes the property as it was then; insulation or a new boiler since would not show until it is reassessed.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) mix in this postcode

Representative locationPostcode
C
3
D
6

Every band present on certificates here, with counts

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts by band across the certificates in this postcode. Bands with no certificate are left out rather than shown as zero, because these are the homes that have been assessed, not all the homes here.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Typical potential Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) band

Exact area totalPostcode

B

The band these properties could reach with the recommended work

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

What the assessors judged these properties could reach if every recommendation on their certificate were carried out. It assumes the work is done and paid for, and says nothing about whether it is practical or permitted here.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Median potential score

Exact area totalPostcode

81

Median SAP score after the recommended improvements

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The median score these properties would reach with the certificate's recommendations carried out. A modelled target, not a forecast, and not costed here.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Typical improvement headroom

Exact area totalPostcode

15 points

Median gap between current and potential score

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The median distance between the current and potential scores on the certificates here — how much room the assessors recorded, in SAP points. It is the certificate's own headroom figure and NOT a reading of the recommendation list, which is published in a separate file this report does not load. It does not imply that any particular improvement suits any particular property.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Typical floor area

Exact area totalPostcode

103 m²

Median certificated floor area in this postcode

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1816 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

Median total floor area across the certificates in this postcode. Floor area on an EPC is the assessor's measurement of the heated envelope, which is not the same as an estate agent's or a lender's figure.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Floor-area profile

Representative locationPostcode

Middle half 120–161 m², median 144 m²

The middle half of certificated floor areas here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The interquartile range and median of certificated floor area, so a postcode mixing flats and houses does not read as a uniform one.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Typical construction age

Exact area totalPostcode

1950-1966

The commonest construction age band on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The age band assessors recorded most often here. It is an assessment band, not a deeds date, and for a converted or extended building it describes the original structure.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Construction-age mix

Representative locationPostcode
1950-1966
6
1976-1982
2
1967-1975
1

The three commonest age bands on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts by construction age band across certificates here. It describes the homes that hold a certificate, which in an area of recent new build will skew far newer than the street as a whole.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Wall construction

Exact area totalPostcode

Cavity wall

The commonest wall construction on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The construction half of the assessor's wall description. Where a wall is hidden, the assessment is made on the age and style of the building and the certificate says "assumed"; it is not an opening-up survey.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Walls recorded as insulated

Exact area totalPostcode

58.4%

Share of classifiable certificates recording wall insulation

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17
How calculated
Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators
Source areas
1756 / 1756

Exact aggregate of 1756 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The share of certificates here whose wall description records insulation. Much of this is recorded as "assumed" from the building's age rather than observed. Certificates that describe the wall only by a U-value are left out of both halves of the share, because they state a performance rather than an insulation position.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Roof construction

Exact area totalPostcode

Pitched

The commonest roof construction on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The construction half of the assessor's roof description. For a flat, "(another dwelling above)" is the correct answer and means there is no roof to assess.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Roofs recorded as insulated

Exact area totalPostcode

89.6%

Share of classifiable certificates recording roof insulation

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17
How calculated
Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators
Source areas
1696 / 1696

Exact aggregate of 1696 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The share of certificates here whose roof description records insulation, at any depth. Flats with another dwelling above, and roofs described only by a U-value, are left out of both halves because neither states an insulation position.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Window glazing

Exact area totalPostcode

Fully double glazed

The commonest glazing recorded on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The commonest glazing description here. "Fully double glazed" covers everything from 1980s units to current standards, which perform very differently.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Main heating system

Exact area totalPostcode

Boiler and radiators

The commonest main heating system on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The commonest main heating system recorded here, as at each certificate's assessment date. A postcode whose certificates are mostly a decade old will not show heating replaced since.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Heating-system mix

Representative locationPostcode

Boiler and radiators 9

The three commonest heating systems on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts by main heating system across certificates here, as at each assessment date.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Main heating fuel

Exact area totalPostcode

mains gas (not community)

The commonest heating fuel on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The commonest main heating fuel recorded here. It is the fuel the system was designed for, not a measure of what is burnt.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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On mains gas

Exact area totalPostcode

93.9%

Share of certificates here connected to mains gas

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17
How calculated
Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators
Source areas
1742 / 1742

Exact aggregate of 1742 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The share of certificates here carrying the publisher's mains-gas flag. Certificates that do not carry the flag at all are left out of both halves rather than counted as off-gas — an unrecorded connection is not an absent one.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Secondary heating

Exact area totalPostcode

None

The commonest secondary heating on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

"None" is the usual answer and a real one. A recorded open fire or stove affects the certificate's modelled figures whether or not it is ever lit.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Hot-water system

Exact area totalPostcode

From main system

The commonest hot-water system on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The commonest hot-water system recorded here, as at each certificate's assessment date.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Low-energy lighting

Exact area totalPostcode

63.0%

Median share of fixed light fittings that are low-energy

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The median percentage of fixed lighting outlets with low-energy lamps. Fixed outlets only — lamps plugged into sockets are not counted — and it reflects what was fitted on the day of the assessment, which for older certificates predates the LED changeover.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Certificates recording solar panels

Exact area totalPostcode

1.3%

Share of certificates here recording photovoltaic panels

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17
How calculated
Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators
Source areas
1878 / 1878

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

The share of certificates here that record solar PV. This measures the register, not the rooftops: panels fitted after a property's last assessment do not appear, so this is a floor on how much PV is present rather than a count of it.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Recomputed from stored numerators and denominators.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Modelled energy use

Exact area totalPostcode

228 kWh/m²/yr

Median modelled primary energy per square metre per year

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

A SAP model output for a standard household, not a meter reading. The same house scores the same whether two people live there or six, and it is per square metre — a large efficient house can use far more energy in total than a small inefficient one.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

Energy Performance of Buildings Data England and Wales, © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Address data processed against Ordnance Survey AddressBase Premium incorporating Royal Mail PAF® is used only to identify repeat certificates and is not stored or published.

Modelled CO₂ emissions

Exact area totalPostcode

4.3 t/yr

Median modelled CO₂ per year across certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1820 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

A SAP model output for a standard household. It uses the carbon intensity assumed when each certificate was lodged, and the grid has decarbonised substantially over the period covered, so older certificates overstate the emissions of electric heating.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Modelled heating cost

Exact area totalPostcode

£798 a year

Median modelled annual heating cost on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

Priced at the fuel tariffs in force when each certificate was lodged, so a postcode whose certificates are mostly a decade old carries a decade-old price. It is a comparison figure between properties, not a bill anyone will receive.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

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Modelled hot-water cost

Exact area totalPostcode

£144 a year

Median modelled annual hot-water cost on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

Priced at the fuel tariffs in force when each certificate was lodged, under standard occupancy. Not a bill.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

Energy Performance of Buildings Data England and Wales, © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Address data processed against Ordnance Survey AddressBase Premium incorporating Royal Mail PAF® is used only to identify repeat certificates and is not stored or published.

Modelled lighting cost

Exact area totalPostcode

£101 a year

Median modelled annual lighting cost on certificates here

Source period
Lodgements to 2026-08-17

Exact aggregate of 1878 latest domestic EPC certificates across every postcode assigned to the official settlement. EPCs are lodged on sale, letting or construction and are not a census of all homes.

Priced at the electricity tariff in force when each certificate was lodged, under standard occupancy. Older certificates predate LED lighting and price it accordingly.

Source and provenance

Energy Performance of Buildings data — MHCLG / EPC Register

Method: Published directly at this geography.

PROP-EPC · OGL v3.0 for all stored fields. Address fields (address1/2/3, posttown, address, postcode) carry a separate Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail copyright and database right notice permitting use only for listed energy-performance purposes. · imported 24 August 2026

Energy Performance of Buildings Data England and Wales, © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Address data processed against Ordnance Survey AddressBase Premium incorporating Royal Mail PAF® is used only to identify repeat certificates and is not stored or published.

04

Broadband & mobile

Expected availability of fixed and mobile services. These are estimates, not speed tests at this address.

10figures

Fixed broadband across all premises in the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom all-premises fixed coverage, coverage-gap and download-speed-band percentages with their premise counts.

Sevenoaks
All premises
54,401
Premises matched to provider data
54,334
Superfast availability (at least 30 Mbit/s)
96%
100 Mbit/s availability
76.4%
Ultrafast availability (at least 300 Mbit/s)
76.3%
Full-fibre availability
67.4%
Gigabit availability
76.2%
Matched premises unable to receive 2 Mbit/s
0.2%
Matched premises unable to receive 5 Mbit/s
0.4%
Matched premises unable to receive 10 Mbit/s
0.7%
Matched premises unable to receive 30 Mbit/s
3.9%
Unable to receive decent broadband from fixed or fixed wireless access
0.1%
Next-generation access (NGA) availability
99.6%
Able to receive decent broadband from fixed wireless access
0%
Premises with superfast availability
52,199
Premises with 100 Mbit/s availability
41,576
Premises with ultrafast availability
41,518
Premises with full-fibre availability
36,657
Premises with gigabit availability
41,479
Matched premises unable to receive 2 Mbit/s
89
Matched premises unable to receive 5 Mbit/s
201
Matched premises unable to receive 10 Mbit/s
367
Matched premises unable to receive 30 Mbit/s
2,135
Premises unable to receive decent broadband from fixed or fixed wireless access
68
Premises with next-generation access (NGA)
54,179
Premises able to receive decent broadband from fixed wireless access
0
Download speed over 30 and below 300 Mbit/s
19.6%
Download speed at least 300 Mbit/s
76.3%
Download speed over 0 and below 2 Mbit/s
0.2%
Download speed at least 2 and below 5 Mbit/s
0.2%
Download speed at least 5 and below 10 Mbit/s
0.3%
Download speed at least 10 and below 30 Mbit/s
3.2%
Premises with download speed over 30 and below 300 Mbit/s
10,681
Premises with download speed at least 300 Mbit/s
41,518
Premises with download speed over 0 and below 2 Mbit/s
89
Premises with download speed at least 2 and below 5 Mbit/s
112
Premises with download speed at least 5 and below 10 Mbit/s
166
Premises with download speed at least 10 and below 30 Mbit/s
1,768
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Provider-predicted availability across all premises in the named council area. It is not a speed test, an address-level result or a town-boundary statistic.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

CONN-OFCOM-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 1 October 2026

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Spring 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Fixed broadband across residential premises in the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom residential fixed coverage, coverage-gap and download-speed-band percentages with their premise counts.

Sevenoaks
All premises
51,423
Premises matched to provider data
51,386
Superfast availability (at least 30 Mbit/s)
96.3%
100 Mbit/s availability
77.6%
Ultrafast availability (at least 300 Mbit/s)
77.5%
Full-fibre availability
68.1%
Gigabit availability
77.4%
Matched premises unable to receive 2 Mbit/s
0.2%
Matched premises unable to receive 5 Mbit/s
0.4%
Matched premises unable to receive 10 Mbit/s
0.6%
Matched premises unable to receive 30 Mbit/s
3.7%
Unable to receive decent broadband from fixed or fixed wireless access
0.1%
Next-generation access (NGA) availability
99.7%
Able to receive decent broadband from fixed wireless access
0%
Premises with superfast availability
49,504
Premises with 100 Mbit/s availability
39,900
Premises with ultrafast availability
39,843
Premises with full-fibre availability
35,029
Premises with gigabit availability
39,804
Matched premises unable to receive 2 Mbit/s
80
Matched premises unable to receive 5 Mbit/s
181
Matched premises unable to receive 10 Mbit/s
331
Matched premises unable to receive 30 Mbit/s
1,882
Premises unable to receive decent broadband from fixed or fixed wireless access
64
Premises with next-generation access (NGA)
51,286
Premises able to receive decent broadband from fixed wireless access
0
Download speed over 30 and below 300 Mbit/s
18.8%
Download speed at least 300 Mbit/s
77.5%
Download speed over 0 and below 2 Mbit/s
0.2%
Download speed at least 2 and below 5 Mbit/s
0.2%
Download speed at least 5 and below 10 Mbit/s
0.3%
Download speed at least 10 and below 30 Mbit/s
3%
Premises with download speed over 30 and below 300 Mbit/s
9,661
Premises with download speed at least 300 Mbit/s
39,843
Premises with download speed over 0 and below 2 Mbit/s
80
Premises with download speed at least 2 and below 5 Mbit/s
101
Premises with download speed at least 5 and below 10 Mbit/s
150
Premises with download speed at least 10 and below 30 Mbit/s
1,551
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Provider-predicted availability across residential premises in the named council area. It is not a speed test, an address-level result or a town-boundary statistic.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

CONN-OFCOM-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 1 October 2026

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Spring 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Full-fibre take-up across the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom full-fibre take-up as a percentage of premises covered by full fibre and as a percentage of all premises.

Sevenoaks
Full-fibre take-up among premises with full-fibre coverage
54%
Full-fibre take-up across all premises
36%
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Take-up describes connections adopted, while availability describes premises that could order a service. The figures cover the named council area, not the town boundary.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

CONN-OFCOM-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 1 October 2026

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Spring 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Coverage data basis across the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom counts of premises and 100 m grid pixels used as the basis for the authority coverage percentages, including road and motorway subsets.

Sevenoaks
Premises used as the coverage basis
54,619
100 m grid pixels used as the geographic coverage basis
37,030
100 m grid pixels containing A or B roads
1,810
100 m grid pixels containing motorways
592
100 m grid pixels containing motorways or A roads
1,449
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

These counts describe the named council area and the inputs to Ofcom's aggregate percentages, not counts for the town. Road fields count 100 m by 100 m grid pixels containing the named road type.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

CONN-OFCOM-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 1 October 2026

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Spring 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

2G coverage across the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom percentages by exact number of networks for premises, geography and major-road coverage.

Sevenoaks
Premises outdoors · 0 networks
0.2%
Premises outdoors · 1 network
0.81%
Premises outdoors · 2 networks
6.01%
Premises outdoors · 3 networks
92.99%
Premises indoors · 0 networks
3.47%
Premises indoors · 1 network
8.97%
Premises indoors · 2 networks
26.87%
Premises indoors · 3 networks
60.69%
Geographic outdoors · 0 networks
1.76%
Geographic outdoors · 1 network
6.31%
Geographic outdoors · 2 networks
20.32%
Geographic outdoors · 3 networks
71.61%
A and B roads in-car · 0 networks
12.15%
A and B roads in-car · 1 network
17.35%
A and B roads in-car · 2 networks
25.75%
A and B roads in-car · 3 networks
44.75%
Motorways in-car · 0 networks
Not published
Motorways in-car · 1 network
6.59%
Motorways in-car · 2 networks
28.72%
Motorways in-car · 3 networks
64.7%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 0 networks
1.52%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 1 network
9.45%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 2 networks
27.88%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 3 networks
61.15%
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

2G coverage is predicted rather than measured. The source reports at most three 2G networks and the result describes the named council area, not the town boundary.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

CONN-OFCOM-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 1 October 2026

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Spring 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

3G coverage across the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom percentages by exact number of networks for premises, geography and major-road coverage.

Sevenoaks
Premises outdoors · 0 networks
0.01%
Premises outdoors · 1 network
99.99%
Premises outdoors · 2 networks
Not published
Premises outdoors · 3 networks
Not published
Premises outdoors · 4 networks
Not published
Premises indoors · 0 networks
0.57%
Premises indoors · 1 network
99.43%
Premises indoors · 2 networks
Not published
Premises indoors · 3 networks
Not published
Premises indoors · 4 networks
Not published
Geographic outdoors · 0 networks
0.08%
Geographic outdoors · 1 network
99.92%
Geographic outdoors · 2 networks
Not published
Geographic outdoors · 3 networks
Not published
Geographic outdoors · 4 networks
Not published
A and B roads in-car · 0 networks
1.55%
A and B roads in-car · 1 network
98.45%
A and B roads in-car · 2 networks
Not published
A and B roads in-car · 3 networks
Not published
A and B roads in-car · 4 networks
Not published
Motorways in-car · 0 networks
Not published
Motorways in-car · 1 network
100%
Motorways in-car · 2 networks
Not published
Motorways in-car · 3 networks
Not published
Motorways in-car · 4 networks
Not published
Motorways and A roads in-car · 0 networks
0.07%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 1 network
99.93%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 2 networks
Not published
Motorways and A roads in-car · 3 networks
Not published
Motorways and A roads in-car · 4 networks
Not published
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Most UK mobile operators have switched off 3G. Blank cells remain Not published rather than being presented as zero coverage.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

CONN-OFCOM-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 1 October 2026

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Spring 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

4G coverage across the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom percentages by exact number of networks for indoor and outdoor premises, geography and major roads.

Sevenoaks
Premises outdoors · 0 networks
0.03%
Premises outdoors · 1 network
0.06%
Premises outdoors · 2 networks
0.19%
Premises outdoors · 3 networks
1.15%
Premises outdoors · 4 networks
98.57%
Premises indoors · 0 networks
0.62%
Premises indoors · 1 network
1.74%
Premises indoors · 2 networks
3.3%
Premises indoors · 3 networks
12.98%
Premises indoors · 4 networks
81.36%
Geographic outdoors · 0 networks
0.2%
Geographic outdoors · 1 network
0.75%
Geographic outdoors · 2 networks
1.79%
Geographic outdoors · 3 networks
7.18%
Geographic outdoors · 4 networks
90.09%
A and B roads in-car · 0 networks
2.1%
A and B roads in-car · 1 network
6.63%
A and B roads in-car · 2 networks
11.55%
A and B roads in-car · 3 networks
18.07%
A and B roads in-car · 4 networks
61.66%
Motorways in-car · 0 networks
Not published
Motorways in-car · 1 network
Not published
Motorways in-car · 2 networks
1.69%
Motorways in-car · 3 networks
15.54%
Motorways in-car · 4 networks
82.77%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 0 networks
Not published
Motorways and A roads in-car · 1 network
0.83%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 2 networks
3.73%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 3 networks
15.73%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 4 networks
79.71%
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Predicted 4G coverage, not a measurement at an address. Indoor experience varies with building construction and the result describes the named council area.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

CONN-OFCOM-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 1 October 2026

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Spring 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Mobile voice coverage across the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom percentages by exact number of networks for indoor and outdoor premises, geography and major roads.

Sevenoaks
Premises outdoors · 0 networks
0%
Premises outdoors · 1 network
0.03%
Premises outdoors · 2 networks
0.12%
Premises outdoors · 3 networks
0.82%
Premises outdoors · 4 networks
99.03%
Premises indoors · 0 networks
0.17%
Premises indoors · 1 network
0.7%
Premises indoors · 2 networks
3.14%
Premises indoors · 3 networks
11.03%
Premises indoors · 4 networks
84.95%
Geographic outdoors · 0 networks
0.02%
Geographic outdoors · 1 network
0.21%
Geographic outdoors · 2 networks
1.19%
Geographic outdoors · 3 networks
6.67%
Geographic outdoors · 4 networks
91.91%
A and B roads in-car · 0 networks
0.5%
A and B roads in-car · 1 network
2.43%
A and B roads in-car · 2 networks
10.66%
A and B roads in-car · 3 networks
18.9%
A and B roads in-car · 4 networks
67.51%
Motorways in-car · 0 networks
Not published
Motorways in-car · 1 network
Not published
Motorways in-car · 2 networks
Not published
Motorways in-car · 3 networks
12.67%
Motorways in-car · 4 networks
87.33%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 0 networks
Not published
Motorways and A roads in-car · 1 network
Not published
Motorways and A roads in-car · 2 networks
1.38%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 3 networks
13.04%
Motorways and A roads in-car · 4 networks
85.58%
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Predicted voice coverage, not call-performance evidence or a measurement at an address. The result describes the named council area.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

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5G coverage across the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom high-confidence and very-high-confidence outdoor 5G percentages by exact number of networks for premises and geography.

Sevenoaks
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 0 networks
0.59%
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 1 network
13.2%
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 2 networks
19.76%
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 3 networks
26.12%
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 4 networks
40.33%
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 0 networks
3.04%
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 1 network
15.94%
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 2 networks
27.84%
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 3 networks
25.15%
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 4 networks
28.03%
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 0 networks
7.91%
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 1 network
24.78%
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 2 networks
31.32%
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 3 networks
19.94%
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 4 networks
16.05%
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 0 networks
22.1%
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 1 network
27.86%
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 2 networks
26.62%
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 3 networks
13.89%
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 4 networks
9.53%
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Ofcom publishes 5G only for outdoor premises and geography at two confidence thresholds. This is wider council-area context and does not predict indoor 5G at an address.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

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Standalone 5G coverage across the wider council area

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Ofcom high-confidence and very-high-confidence outdoor standalone-5G percentages by exact number of networks for premises and geography.

Sevenoaks
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 0 networks
3.49%
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 1 network
61.05%
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 2 networks
8.32%
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 3 networks
27.14%
High confidence · Premises outdoors · 4 networks
Not published
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 0 networks
8.58%
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 1 network
66.83%
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 2 networks
9.11%
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 3 networks
15.48%
High confidence · Geographic outdoors · 4 networks
Not published
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 0 networks
35.28%
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 1 network
42.32%
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 2 networks
16.98%
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 3 networks
5.41%
Very high confidence · Premises outdoors · 4 networks
Not published
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 0 networks
47.99%
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 1 network
41.07%
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 2 networks
6.95%
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 3 networks
3.99%
Very high confidence · Geographic outdoors · 4 networks
Not published
Source period
January 2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Standalone 5G is distinct from overall 5G. At the January 2026 snapshot not every operator deployed it, so some four-network cells are Not published rather than zero.

Source and provenance

Connected Nations Spring 2026 mobile and fixed broadband aggregates — Ofcom

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

CONN-OFCOM-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 1 October 2026

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Spring 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

05

Crime & emergency services

Recorded crime near this place. Police.uk locations are deliberately anonymised and are not incident addresses.

36figures

Recorded crimes

Representative locationWithin 1 km

103

All categories, over the period we hold

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Police.uk locations are deliberately anonymised: each is snapped to a point representing a small cluster of addresses, so this describes an area and never a specific address. Recorded crime reflects what was reported and recorded, which is not the same as everything that happened.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Anti-social behaviour

Representative locationWithin 1 km

22

The category recorded most often nearby

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Home Office categories are administrative groupings, not a ranking by seriousness. Anti-social behaviour is frequently the largest category and covers a very wide range of incidents.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Most common crime type

Representative locationWithin 1 km

24

Largest single category of recorded crime

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Violence And Sexual Offences.

The largest single category over the loaded period. Where two categories are close this can change month to month without offending changing. Locations are snapped to anonymised points, so a category reflects a small cluster of addresses rather than any one of them.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Bicycle theft

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0.0%

Latest three months against the previous three

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Compares two three-month periods, so it is a short-term direction of travel and not a long-run trend. Suppressed where there are too few crimes for the comparison to mean anything.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Change in recorded crime

Representative locationWithin 1 km

29.6%

Most recent six months against the six before

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Compares two six-month windows around this point. Recording practice and boundary changes move this figure as much as offending does, and small areas swing widely on a handful of incidents.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Local fire incidents

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

3

Fires attended in this neighbourhood in the year

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Counts primary fires, secondary fires and chimney fires. False alarms and non-fire incidents such as road collisions and flooding are counted separately and are not included here. A count of incidents the fire service attended in this neighbourhood (LSOA, roughly 1,500 residents) in one year. It is not a risk score and not a forecast: a handful of incidents in a small area moves sharply from year to year for no reason a reader could act on, and a busy road or a single derelict building can account for most of it. Incidents whose neighbourhood the service did not record are excluded, so this is slightly below the true total. England only.

Source and provenance

Fire and rescue incident statistics — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Fire casualties

Named wider-area contextFire and rescue service area

Non-fatal casualties across the fire and rescue authority in the year

Kent
261
Source period
2025/26
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Everyone hurt in a fire anywhere in the authority, including people given a precautionary check at the scene. This figure is for the whole fire and rescue authority — an area covering between one and nine million people — and not for this postcode, this neighbourhood or this street. It is a record of what the service dealt with, not a measure of risk here: counts rise with how many homes, roads and people an area contains. England only; Scotland and Wales publish their own fire statistics on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fire and rescue incident statistics — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

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Fire fatalities

Named wider-area contextFire and rescue service area

Deaths in fires across the fire and rescue authority in the year

Kent
6
Source period
2025/26
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A small number over a very large area, so it swings by tens of percent from one year to the next without anything changing. This figure is for the whole fire and rescue authority — an area covering between one and nine million people — and not for this postcode, this neighbourhood or this street. It is a record of what the service dealt with, not a measure of risk here: counts rise with how many homes, roads and people an area contains. England only; Scotland and Wales publish their own fire statistics on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fire and rescue incident statistics — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

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Fire service response time indicator where published

Named wider-area contextFire and rescue service area

Average time from call to the first vehicle arriving at a primary fire, across the whole authority

Kent
11.35 minutes
Source period
2025/26
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

An average over every primary fire in the authority — dwellings, other buildings, vehicles and outdoor fires together, in cities and in the countryside. It is not a prediction for this address: a rural postcode inside a mostly urban authority will see slower arrivals than this average, and the reverse is equally true. This figure is for the whole fire and rescue authority — an area covering between one and nine million people — and not for this postcode, this neighbourhood or this street. It is a record of what the service dealt with, not a measure of risk here: counts rise with how many homes, roads and people an area contains. England only; Scotland and Wales publish their own fire statistics on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fire and rescue incident statistics — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

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Dwelling fires in this neighbourhood

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

0

Fires in homes attended here in the year

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Counts fires in dwellings only, whether accidental or deliberate. Most neighbourhoods see none or one in a year, so a difference of two between two areas means very little. A count of incidents the fire service attended in this neighbourhood (LSOA, roughly 1,500 residents) in one year. It is not a risk score and not a forecast: a handful of incidents in a small area moves sharply from year to year for no reason a reader could act on, and a busy road or a single derelict building can account for most of it. Incidents whose neighbourhood the service did not record are excluded, so this is slightly below the true total. England only.

Source and provenance

Fire and rescue incident statistics — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Deliberate fires in this neighbourhood

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

0

Fires recorded as started on purpose here in the year

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Mostly refuse, grassland and abandoned vehicle fires rather than arson against buildings. Whether a fire is recorded as deliberate is the attending officer's judgement. A count of incidents the fire service attended in this neighbourhood (LSOA, roughly 1,500 residents) in one year. It is not a risk score and not a forecast: a handful of incidents in a small area moves sharply from year to year for no reason a reader could act on, and a busy road or a single derelict building can account for most of it. Incidents whose neighbourhood the service did not record are excluded, so this is slightly below the true total. England only.

Source and provenance

Fire and rescue incident statistics — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Incidents attended by the fire service

Named wider-area contextFire and rescue service area

Everything the authority was called to in the year, including false alarms

Kent
18,131
Source period
2025/26
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Includes false alarms and non-fire work — road collisions, flooding, lift releases, assisting other services — which together are the majority of what a modern fire service attends. This figure is for the whole fire and rescue authority — an area covering between one and nine million people — and not for this postcode, this neighbourhood or this street. It is a record of what the service dealt with, not a measure of risk here: counts rise with how many homes, roads and people an area contains. England only; Scotland and Wales publish their own fire statistics on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fire and rescue incident statistics — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

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Dwelling fires per 100,000 people

Named wider-area contextFire and rescue service area

Home fires across the authority, scaled by its resident population

Kent
31.4 per 100,000
Source period
2024/25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A rate rather than a count, so a large authority is not made to look dangerous by being large. It still describes the whole authority. This figure is for the whole fire and rescue authority — an area covering between one and nine million people — and not for this postcode, this neighbourhood or this street. It is a record of what the service dealt with, not a measure of risk here: counts rise with how many homes, roads and people an area contains. England only; Scotland and Wales publish their own fire statistics on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fire and rescue incident statistics — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

SAFETY-FIREINC · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 27 August 2026

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Average response time to dwelling fires

Named wider-area contextFire and rescue service area

Time from call to the first vehicle arriving at a fire in a home

Kent
9.88 minutes
Source period
2025/26
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Narrower than the headline figure — fires in homes only — and the one most readers mean. Still an average across the whole authority, urban and rural together. This figure is for the whole fire and rescue authority — an area covering between one and nine million people — and not for this postcode, this neighbourhood or this street. It is a record of what the service dealt with, not a measure of risk here: counts rise with how many homes, roads and people an area contains. England only; Scotland and Wales publish their own fire statistics on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fire and rescue incident statistics — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

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Nearest fire station

Calculated for the place boundaryMapped place

Sevenoaks Fire Station (Kent)

The closest station in a straight line, and the service that runs it

Source period
2026

Calculated from the official settlement polygon. If stations lie inside the town, the one nearest the polygon's representative centre is named.

The closest station, not the station that would attend. Fire and rescue services mobilise whichever appliances are available and appropriate, which is routinely not the nearest station, and stations are opened and closed between annual releases.

Source and provenance

Fire stations — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Calculated from the official settlement boundary.

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Distance to nearest fire station

Calculated for the place boundaryMapped place

3.1 km

Straight-line distance to the closest station

Source period
2026

Straight-line distance from the official settlement boundary to the nearest station. A value of 0 m means a station lies inside the boundary; this is not a drive or response time.

A straight line, not a drive and NOT a response time. Most of a response is call handling and crew turnout, and an on-call station has to assemble a crew before anything moves. The authority-wide response times published alongside this are the measure of how quickly help arrives.

Source and provenance

Fire stations — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Calculated from the official settlement boundary.

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Fire stations

Calculated for the place boundaryWithin 5 km

2

How many stations are close by

Source period
2026

Counts station buildings inside the official settlement or within 5 km of its boundary. It does not count appliances or crews.

Counts station buildings, not appliances or crews. A wholetime city station and a small on-call station in a village count the same here and are not the same thing.

Source and provenance

Fire stations — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Calculated from the official settlement boundary.

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Fire stations in this fire and rescue authority

Named wider-area contextFire and rescue service area

Stations operated across the whole authority

Kent
56
Source period
2026
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

How the area is served overall, at the scale of an authority covering between one and nine million people. Station numbers change slowly, and this is an annual snapshot rather than a live figure.

Source and provenance

Fire stations — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

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Crimes nearby, by direction and distance

Representative locationWithin 1 km
N, 0–250 m: 0 crimesNE, 0–250 m: 3 crimes (3% of those nearby)E, 0–250 m: 4 crimes (4% of those nearby)SE, 0–250 m: 0 crimesS, 0–250 m: 0 crimesSW, 0–250 m: 2 crimes (2% of those nearby)W, 0–250 m: 0 crimesNW, 0–250 m: 3 crimes (3% of those nearby)N, 250–500 m: 0 crimesNE, 250–500 m: 0 crimesE, 250–500 m: 9 crimes (9% of those nearby)SE, 250–500 m: 6 crimes (6% of those nearby)S, 250–500 m: 6 crimes (6% of those nearby)SW, 250–500 m: 12 crimes (12% of those nearby)W, 250–500 m: 18 crimes (17% of those nearby)NW, 250–500 m: 0 crimesN, 500–750 m: 10 crimes (10% of those nearby)NE, 500–750 m: 3 crimes (3% of those nearby)E, 500–750 m: 0 crimesSE, 500–750 m: 3 crimes (3% of those nearby)S, 500–750 m: 0 crimesSW, 500–750 m: 0 crimesW, 500–750 m: 0 crimesNW, 500–750 m: 0 crimesN, 750–1000 m: 0 crimesNE, 750–1000 m: 0 crimesE, 750–1000 m: 2 crimes (2% of those nearby)SE, 750–1000 m: 0 crimesS, 750–1000 m: 0 crimesSW, 750–1000 m: 12 crimes (12% of those nearby)W, 750–1000 m: 10 crimes (10% of those nearby)NW, 750–1000 m: 0 crimesN

103 crimes recorded within 1000 m over 12 months

Most were W of here, in the band up to 500 m — 18 of them.

Police.uk does not publish where a crime happened. Each one is moved to the nearest of a fixed set of anonymous points so that it cannot be tied to a household, so this shows roughly how many and which way — never a street or an address.
Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

37.01 per 1,000 residents per year

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counted over the postcode's own LSOA, against Census 2021 usual residents for the same LSOA. The denominator counts people who LIVE there, not people who are there: in a city centre much recorded crime involves workers, shoppers and visitors, so the rate per resident is higher than the risk to a resident. Median across England and Wales is about 67 per 1,000.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

CRIME-POLICE · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Burglary

Representative locationWithin 500 m

9

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

CRIME-POLICE · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Crime trend by month

Representative locationPolice force area

Apr 2026

13

Nov 2025

11

May 2026

11

Jun 2026

11

Feb 2026

10

Mar 2026

10

Dec 2025

9

Jul 2025

8

Aug 2025

7

Jan 2026

7

Sep 2025

4

Oct 2025

2

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Criminal damage and arson

Representative locationWithin 500 m

11

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

CRIME-POLICE · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Drugs

Representative locationWithin 500 m

0

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Latest month

Representative locationPolice force area

11

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is June 2026: 11 crimes.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

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Other crime

Representative locationWithin 500 m

4

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Other theft

Representative locationWithin 500 m

11

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

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Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Outcomes for recorded offences

Representative locationPolice force area

Investigation complete; no suspect identified

38

No outcome recorded

22

Unable to prosecute suspect

16

Under investigation

9

Awaiting court outcome

8

Status update unavailable

5

Offender given a caution

2

Court result unavailable

2

Local resolution

1

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

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Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Police force

Representative locationPolice force area

Kent Police

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

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Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Possession of weapons

Representative locationWithin 500 m

1

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

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Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Public order

Representative locationWithin 500 m

5

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Robbery

Representative locationWithin 500 m

0

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Shoplifting

Representative locationWithin 500 m

5

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

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Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Theft from the person

Representative locationWithin 500 m

1

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Vehicle crime

Representative locationWithin 500 m

10

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Violence and sexual offences

Representative locationWithin 500 m

24

Source period
2026-06

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Locations are deliberately anonymised; Scotland is not covered except British Transport Police.

Source and provenance

Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes — Home Office / police forces

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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06

People & households

Facts about people living in the local areas around this place. These describe groups, not individuals.

81figures

Age profile

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

50 to 64

365

35 to 49

333

Under 15

314

65 to 79

280

15 to 24

166

80 and over

138

25 to 34

79

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Country-of-birth profile

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

United Kingdom

1,520

EU countries

46

Africa

38

Middle East and Asia

29

Americas and Caribbean

20

Oceania and other

10

Rest of Europe

9

British Overseas

1

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Ethnic-group profile

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

White

1,607

Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh

37

Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups

15

Other ethnic group

9

Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African

8

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Families with children

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

43.3%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009E
45.5%
Median
43.3%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 008E
36.2%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Household composition

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Couple family

332

All aged 66+ family

116

One person, aged 66+

101

Lone parent family

37

One person, under 66

32

Other household types

27

Other single family

1

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Household size

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

2 people

229

4 people

147

1 person

133

3 people

98

5 or more people

39

No usual residents

0

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Marital and civil-partnership profile

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Married or civil partnership

865

Never married

273

Widowed or surviving partner

114

Divorced or dissolved

72

Separated

15

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Qualifications

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Level 4 and above

695

Level 3

210

Level 2

182

No qualifications

106

Level 1 and entry

81

Apprenticeship

46

Other qualifications

19

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Religion profile

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Christian

935

No religion

605

Not answered

112

Hindu

10

Sikh

4

Muslim

3

Buddhist

3

Jewish

2

Other religion

2

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Female residents

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

51.9%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009B
52.4%
Median
51.9%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
49.6%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Male residents

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

48.1%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009D
50.4%
Median
48.1%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009B
47.6%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Students

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

5.0%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009D
7.1%
Median
5.0%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
4.3%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Estimated resident population

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

1,504

Latest annual mid-year population estimate

Highest — Sevenoaks 009D
1,656
Median
1,504
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
1,252
Source period
mid-2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Unrounded estimates are published to support aggregation; that does not make them exact observations. This is an ONS mid-year estimate for the surrounding LSOA, not a count at this postcode and not a Census-day observation. Students are estimated at their term-time address. England and Wales only.

Source and provenance

Small-area population estimates (2021 based) — Office for National Statistics via Nomis

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Estimated age profile

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

50 to 54

163

10 to 14

142

55 to 59

126

45 to 49

120

60 to 64

110

5 to 9

105

65 to 69

99

15 to 19

96

70 to 74

94

75 to 79

91

40 to 44

83

35 to 39

79

20 to 24

72

85 and over

69

80 to 84

66

0 to 4

55

25 to 29

48

30 to 34

38

Latest mid-year estimate in five-year age bands

Source period
mid-2024

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Age bands are estimated components and are shown as counts against the same-period population total. This is an ONS mid-year estimate for the surrounding LSOA, not a count at this postcode and not a Census-day observation. Students are estimated at their term-time address. England and Wales only.

Source and provenance

Small-area population estimates (2021 based) — Office for National Statistics via Nomis

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Estimated sex profile

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Male

841

Female

815

Latest mid-year male and female population estimates

Source period
mid-2024

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

ONS publishes this small-area estimate in male and female categories; it does not measure gender identity. This is an ONS mid-year estimate for the surrounding LSOA, not a count at this postcode and not a Census-day observation. Students are estimated at their term-time address. England and Wales only.

Source and provenance

Small-area population estimates (2021 based) — Office for National Statistics via Nomis

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Population at Census 2021

Representative locationTown or built-up area

7,335

Usual residents counted on Census day

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 estimate published on the 2022 built-up-area boundary. Counts are rounded to the nearest five and may not match the current 2024 place boundary. This Census series cannot be made more recent between censuses.

Source and provenance

Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Median age

Representative locationTown or built-up area

46.0 years

Median age of usual residents at Census 2021

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 estimate published on the 2022 built-up-area boundary. Counts are rounded to the nearest five and may not match the current 2024 place boundary. This Census series cannot be made more recent between censuses.

Source and provenance

Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Age and sex profile

Representative locationTown or built-up area

Residents grouped by sex and broad age band

Female — aged 0 to 19
860 (11.7%)
Female — aged 20 to 39
615 (8.4%)
Female — aged 40 to 59
1,110 (15.1%)
Female — aged 60 to 79
870 (11.9%)
Female — aged 80+
315 (4.3%)
Male — aged 0 to 19
950 (13.0%)
Male — aged 20 to 39
600 (8.2%)
Male — aged 40 to 59
1,040 (14.2%)
Male — aged 60 to 79
745 (10.2%)
Male — aged 80+
220 (3.0%)
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Reading at the representative postcode

Category counts are summed from wholly contained source areas; published disclosure-control adjustments are retained.

Census 2021 estimate published on the 2022 built-up-area boundary. Counts are rounded to the nearest five and may not match the current 2024 place boundary. This Census series cannot be made more recent between censuses.

Source and provenance

Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Country of birth profile

Representative locationTown or built-up area

Residents grouped by broad country-of-birth area

Europe: EU countries
195 (2.7%)
Europe: United Kingdom
6,725 (91.7%)
Non-EU countries (including British Overseas)
415 (5.7%)
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Reading at the representative postcode

Category counts are summed from wholly contained source areas; published disclosure-control adjustments are retained.

Census 2021 estimate published on the 2022 built-up-area boundary. Counts are rounded to the nearest five and may not match the current 2024 place boundary. This Census series cannot be made more recent between censuses.

Source and provenance

Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Usual residents

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

1,518.5

People counted in this neighbourhood on census day

Highest — Sevenoaks 009D
1,675
Median
1,518.5
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
1,312
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

The number of people usually resident in this neighbourhood. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Population density

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

613.4 per km²

Residents per square kilometre

Highest — Sevenoaks 009A
2,614.1 per km²
Median
613.4 per km²
Lowest — Sevenoaks 008E
91.6 per km²
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Residents per square kilometre across the whole neighbourhood, including any parks, water or farmland inside it, so it is not the density of the built-up part. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Residents aged under 15

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

18.7%

Share of all residents

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The census publishes age at this geography in five-year bands, so this is 0 to 14 rather than 0 to 15. It is not the school-age population. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Residents aged 15 to 64

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

56.3%

Share of all residents

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Close to working age but not identical to it: the census publishes five-year bands at this geography, so the band starts at 15 rather than 16, and it includes students, carers and anyone else not in work. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Residents aged 65 and over

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

25.0%

Share of all residents

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Everyone aged 65 or over, whether working or not. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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One-person households

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

20.6%

Share of all households

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Households where one person lives alone. Shared houses and flats with several unrelated adults are counted as one household, not several. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Households with dependent children

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

33.7%

Share of all households

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Counts households containing at least one dependent child, across couple, lone-parent and other household types. A dependent child is under 16, or 16 to 18 and in full-time education. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Owner-occupied households

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

90.2%

Owned outright or with a mortgage

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Households that own their home outright or with a mortgage. Shared ownership is reported separately by the census and is not included here. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Owned outright

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

51.9%

Share of all households

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Households owning their home with no mortgage. Strongly related to the age profile of an area rather than to wealth alone. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Owned with a mortgage or loan

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

38.4%

Share of all households

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Households buying their home with a mortgage or loan. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Population change, 2001 to 2021

Published area figureTown or built-up area

8.8%

Change in usual residents between the 2001 and 2021 censuses

Source period
Census 2001 to Census 2021

A change between two Census-day counts, not an annual growth rate or a current estimate.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Privately rented households

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

7.1%

Share of all households

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Households renting from a private landlord or letting agency. This moves faster than most census measures, so a 2021 figure can be some way from the position today. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Residents aged 0–15

Published area figureTown or built-up area

1,504

Usual residents aged 0 to 15 on Census day

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 count for the whole built-up area; disclosure protection can make component totals differ slightly.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Residents aged 16–24

Published area figureTown or built-up area

585

Usual residents aged 16 to 24 on Census day

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 count for the whole built-up area; disclosure protection can make component totals differ slightly.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Socially rented households

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

2.3%

Council or housing association

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Households renting from a council or a housing association. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Overcrowded households

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

0.6%

At least one bedroom short of the standard

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Households with an occupancy rating of −1 or lower, meaning at least one bedroom fewer than the census standard for the people living there. The standard is a formula about ages and relationships, not a judgement about any particular home. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Residents aged 25–64

Published area figureTown or built-up area

3,550

Usual residents aged 25 to 64 on Census day

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 count for the whole built-up area; disclosure protection can make component totals differ slightly.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Households with no car or van

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

7.6%

Share of all households

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Households with no car or van available. In city centres this usually reflects good transport and parking costs rather than anything else. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Residents aged 65+

Published area figureTown or built-up area

1,695

Usual residents aged 65 and over on Census day

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 count for the whole built-up area; disclosure protection can make component totals differ slightly.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Households with one car or van

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

36.2%

Share of all households

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Counts vehicles available to the household, which is not the same as vehicles parked on the street here. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Households with two or more cars or vans

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

56.2%

Share of all households

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Combines the census categories for two vehicles and for three or more. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Registered live births

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

11

Live births registered for the surrounding LSOA in the latest calendar year

Highest — Sevenoaks 009C
22
Median
11
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009B
8
Source period
2025
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

This is an annual count for the whole LSOA, not births at this postcode. It includes a very small number of late registrations from the previous year and is not a fertility rate.

Source and provenance

Live births in England and Wales for small geographic areas — Office for National Statistics via Nomis

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Residents with no qualifications

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

7.9%

Of residents aged 16 and over

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Residents aged 16 and over holding no formal qualification. Strongly related to the age profile of an area: older cohorts left school in a period when far fewer qualifications were awarded. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Registered deaths

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

13

Deaths registered for residents of the surrounding LSOA in the latest calendar year

Highest — Sevenoaks 009B
24
Median
13
Lowest — Sevenoaks 008E
8
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

This is an annual count for the whole LSOA, not deaths at this postcode. ONS rounds small sub-regional counts for disclosure control, so it must not be treated as an exact event count or summed to reproduce a national total.

Source and provenance

Mortality statistics: registered deaths, all causes and ages — Office for National Statistics via Nomis

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Residents with a degree-level qualification

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

51.9%

Level 4 and above, of residents aged 16 and over

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Level 4 and above covers degrees, higher national certificates and professional qualifications, and records the highest one held. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Residents in good or very good health

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

89.1%

Self-assessed on census day

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Self-assessed health, not a clinical assessment, and heavily shaped by the age profile of an area. It was recorded during the coronavirus pandemic, when people were unusually conscious of their health. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Residents born outside the UK

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

9.1%

Share of all residents

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Country of birth does not indicate nationality, citizenship or how long someone has lived here — a person born abroad to British parents is counted here. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Change in residents aged 0–15

Published area figureTown or built-up area

20.5%

Change in the age-group count between Census 2001 and Census 2021

Source period
Census 2001 to Census 2021

Change between Census-day counts over 20 years; it is not an annual rate.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Largest ethnic group

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

White

The high-level group most residents recorded

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The largest of the five high-level census groups, which are broad by design and contain very different communities. Where two groups are close, the label can flip on a handful of people. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Change in residents aged 16–24

Published area figureTown or built-up area

-1.2%

Change in the age-group count between Census 2001 and Census 2021

Source period
Census 2001 to Census 2021

Change between Census-day counts over 20 years; it is not an annual rate.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Share in the largest ethnic group

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

95.9%

Of all residents

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

How concentrated the largest high-level group is. A high share simply means one broad group predominates; it carries no other meaning. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Change in residents aged 25–64

Published area figureTown or built-up area

1.7%

Change in the age-group count between Census 2001 and Census 2021

Source period
Census 2001 to Census 2021

Change between Census-day counts over 20 years; it is not an annual rate.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Change in residents aged 65+

Published area figureTown or built-up area

17.8%

Change in the age-group count between Census 2001 and Census 2021

Source period
Census 2001 to Census 2021

Change between Census-day counts over 20 years; it is not an annual rate.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

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Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Number of households

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

615

Households counted in the surrounding LSOA

Highest — Sevenoaks 009D
646
Median
615
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
519
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

A household is one person living alone or a group sharing accommodation and facilities. It is not the number of dwellings. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

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Passports held

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

United Kingdom

1,543

No passport

59

Other Europe

29

Africa

10

Americas and Caribbean

10

Ireland

9

Middle East and Asia

8

Oceania and Antarctica

8

British Overseas Territories

0

Published passport country-group counts

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Passport held is not the same as nationality, citizenship or national identity. A resident can hold more than one passport. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Household deprivation

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Not deprived

426

Deprived in 1 dimension

185

Deprived in 2 dimensions

34

Deprived in 3 dimensions

2

Deprived in 4 dimensions

0

Households deprived in zero to four Census dimensions

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The four Census dimensions are education, employment, health and housing. This is not the Index of Multiple Deprivation. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Year of arrival in the UK

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Born in the UK

1,520

2001 to 2010

48

1991 to 2000

22

1971 to 1980

16

2017 to 2019

16

2020 to 2021

14

1981 to 1990

10

2014 to 2016

9

1951 to 1960

8

Before 1951

4

2011 to 2013

4

1961 to 1970

3

Usual residents by published arrival-period band

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Year of arrival is asked of people born outside the UK and says when they arrived in the UK, not when they moved to this postcode. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Length of residence in the UK

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Born in the UK

1,520

10 years or more

113

Under 2 years

24

2 to under 5 years

12

5 to under 10 years

10

Usual residents by time lived in the United Kingdom

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Length of residence means time lived in the UK, not time at this address or in this neighbourhood. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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National identity

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

British only

970

English

566

Non-UK identity

102

Other identity

87

Other UK identities

24

Irish

15

Welsh

13

Self-described national identity groups

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

National identity is self-described and is distinct from country of birth, passport held, ethnicity and citizenship. Published hierarchy subtotals are used without double-counting their child categories. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

English proficiency

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Main language is English or Welsh

1,626

Speaks English very well

17

Speaks English well

7

Cannot speak English well

1

Cannot speak English

0

English or Welsh main language and spoken-English proficiency

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The applicable population is residents aged 3 and over. In Wales, English or Welsh is the published main-language category. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Sexual orientation

Representative locationWider neighbourhood

Straight or heterosexual

5,534

Not answered

371

Gay or lesbian

53

Bisexual

40

All other sexual orientations

4

Voluntary Census response among residents aged 16 and over

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

A voluntary Census 2021 question for residents aged 16 and over. "Not answered" is retained in the denominator and display. This sensitive statistic describes the surrounding MSOA, never an individual or household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 MSOA topic summaries — Office for National Statistics via Nomis

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW-MSOA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

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Turnout

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Valid votes cast as a share of the electorate

Sevenoaks
67.7%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Counted the way the House of Commons Library counts it: valid votes as a percentage of the registered electorate. Rejected ballots are excluded, and people entitled to vote but not registered are not in the denominator at all, so this is not the share of adults who voted. Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

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Electorate

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Registered electors at the 2024 general election

Sevenoaks
73,708
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

The number of people registered to vote in the whole constituency, not the number who live there and not the number eligible. Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Second address

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

No second address

1,596

Second address in the UK

49

Second address outside the UK

30

Usual residents by whether a second address is used

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

A second address can be used for work, study, holidays or other reasons and does not necessarily indicate ownership. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Schoolchildren and full-time students

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

20.1%

Share of residents aged 5 and over who are schoolchildren or full-time students

Highest — Sevenoaks 009D
22.5%
Median
20.1%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 008E
16.8%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

The denominator is all usual residents aged 5 and over. It is not the same definition as economic-activity student status. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Winning party

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Party of the member elected in 2024

Sevenoaks
Conservative
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Runner-up party

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Party placed second in 2024

Sevenoaks
Liberal Democrat
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Seat outcome

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Whether the seat was held or changed hands

Sevenoaks
Con Hold
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A "gain" is measured against the notional result the boundary commissions computed for the new seat, not against a real earlier contest in the same area — because for most seats no earlier contest covered the same ground. Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Majority

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Votes between the winner and the runner-up

Sevenoaks
5,440
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Majority share

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Winning margin as a share of valid votes

Sevenoaks
10.9%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Vote share Conservative

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Share of valid votes

Sevenoaks
36.7%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Vote share Labour

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Share of valid votes

Sevenoaks
13.6%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Vote share Liberal Democrat

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Share of valid votes

Sevenoaks
25.8%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Vote share Reform UK

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Share of valid votes

Sevenoaks
18.7%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Vote share Green

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Share of valid votes

Sevenoaks
4.1%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Vote share other candidates

Named wider-area contextConstituency

All remaining candidates pooled

Sevenoaks
1.0%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Everything outside the named parties added together, including independents. It is not one party's support. Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Member elected in 2024

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Who won the seat on 4 July 2024

Sevenoaks
Laura Trott
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

The result of that election and nothing more. Who represents the seat TODAY is a separate, live figure — by-elections and defections have changed it in several seats since. Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Candidates standing

Named wider-area contextConstituency

People on the ballot paper

Sevenoaks
7
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

How many candidates appeared on the ballot, which is a fact about the contest rather than about the area. Describes the whole parliamentary constituency — roughly 70,000 electors — at the general election of 4 July 2024. It is not a figure for this postcode, this street or this neighbourhood, and areas within a single seat can differ from each other far more than seats differ from one another. Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for that election, so these figures cannot be compared with results published for an earlier one.

Source and provenance

General election results by constituency — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-ELECT-GE · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 21 October 2026

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Parliamentary constituency name

Named wider-area contextConstituency

The Westminster seat this postcode votes in

Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks
Source period
2026-10-02
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Constituency boundaries were re-drawn for the general election of 4 July 2024. This is the seat as it is now, which for many postcodes is not the seat they were in before that election — so results, majorities and turnout published for an earlier election under an older name do not describe this area.

Source and provenance

UK Parliament data — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-PARL · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026

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Current MP

Named wider-area contextConstituency

The member currently representing this constituency

Sevenoaks
Laura Trott MP, member since 2019-12-12
Source period
2026-10-02
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Correct as at the date shown beside it, and not necessarily today. Members change between general elections through by-elections, defections and resignations, and a seat can be vacant for months while a by-election is arranged — in which case this reads "Seat currently vacant" rather than naming whoever held it last. A constituency covers roughly 70,000 electors, so this is a fact about a large area and not about your street.

Source and provenance

UK Parliament data — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-PARL · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026

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MP political party

Named wider-area contextConstituency

The party the sitting member currently sits for

Sevenoaks
Conservative
Source period
2026-10-02
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

The party the member sits for now, which is not always the party they were elected for. Correct as at the date shown; a vacant seat has no party.

Source and provenance

UK Parliament data — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-PARL · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026

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MP contact details

Named wider-area contextConstituency

Published parliamentary office contact

Sevenoaks
Email
laura.trott.mp@parliament.uk
Email
020 7219 6898
Official page
https://members.parliament.uk/member/4780/contact
Source period
2026-10-02
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

The member's parliamentary office contact at the House of Commons, as Parliament publishes it. Constituency office details are not shown: they are sometimes a private address, and the Open Parliament Licence excludes personal data from what it permits us to reuse.

Source and provenance

UK Parliament data — UK Parliament

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

GOV-PARL · Open Parliament Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026

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07

Income, work & local economy

Local figures about work, income, businesses and relative disadvantage. They describe the area, not any household or person.

54figures

Overall relative disadvantage (decile, 1 = most deprived)

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

10 of 10, where 1 is most deprived

Where this neighbourhood sits among all English LSOAs

Source period
2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of the 33,755 small areas in England and decile 10 the least; rank 1 of 33,755 is the most deprived. This describes the whole LSOA — roughly 1,500 residents — and not this postcode or any household in it, so a comfortable street inside a deprived area still counts as deprived here. The English index cannot be compared with the Scottish (SIMD) or Welsh (WIMD) indices: different domains, different weights, different years and a different number of areas to rank against. It is also relative, not absolute — it says how this area compares with other English areas in 2025, and it is not comparable with IMD 2019.

Source and provenance

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 — MHCLG

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEP-IMD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Equivalised household income before housing costs

Range across the areaWider neighbourhood

£43,791

Mean disposable income, adjusted for household size

Highest — Sevenoaks 009
£44,064
Median
£43,791
Lowest — Sevenoaks 008
£43,518
Source period
FYE 2023
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
2 / 2

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Equivalised means adjusted for household size and composition on the modified-OECD scale, so a couple and a family of five can be compared. Do not read it as the cash a household receives. A modelled estimate for the financial year ending March 2023, not a measurement: ONS combine the Family Resources Survey with census and administrative data, and the method tends to pull estimates towards the average. Every figure carries a wide confidence interval — the true value could plausibly sit anywhere in it, so a difference between neighbouring areas may not be real. It is a mean, and income is skewed, so it sits above the typical household. The area is an MSOA of 2,000 to 6,000 households, several neighbourhoods rather than one street. England and Wales only: ONS publish no Scottish equivalent.

Source and provenance

Small area model-based income estimates — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-INCOME · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Jobs profile

Published area figureTown or built-up area

Mixed

Whether ONS classifies the town as working or residential from its job density

Source period
ONS towns classification, May 2026

Based on BRES employment, which includes employees and working proprietors but not all self-employed people.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

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Gross household income

Range across the areaWider neighbourhood

£70,532

Mean total annual income before tax

Highest — Sevenoaks 009
£74,296
Median
£70,532
Lowest — Sevenoaks 008
£66,767
Source period
FYE 2023
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
2 / 2

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Total income of every household member before tax, including benefits and tax credits, and not adjusted for household size. A modelled estimate for the financial year ending March 2023, not a measurement: ONS combine the Family Resources Survey with census and administrative data, and the method tends to pull estimates towards the average. Every figure carries a wide confidence interval — the true value could plausibly sit anywhere in it, so a difference between neighbouring areas may not be real. It is a mean, and income is skewed, so it sits above the typical household. The area is an MSOA of 2,000 to 6,000 households, several neighbourhoods rather than one street. England and Wales only: ONS publish no Scottish equivalent.

Source and provenance

Small area model-based income estimates — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-INCOME · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Income disadvantage (decile, 1 = most deprived)

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

10 of 10, where 1 is most deprived

Share of the neighbourhood on a low income, ranked against England

Source period
2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The income domain measures the proportion of people in this LSOA living in low-income households, ranked against all 33,755 English LSOAs; decile 1 is the most deprived tenth. It describes the area, not this postcode or any household. It carries 22.5% of the overall English index and is not comparable with the Scottish or Welsh income domains, which are built from different data and weighted differently.

Source and provenance

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 — MHCLG

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEP-IMD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Employment disadvantage (decile, 1 = most deprived)

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

10 of 10, where 1 is most deprived

Involuntary exclusion from work, ranked against England

Source period
2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The employment domain measures the share of working-age people in this LSOA involuntarily excluded from the labour market, ranked against all 33,755 English LSOAs; decile 1 is the most deprived tenth. It describes the area, not this postcode or any household, and it is not comparable with the Scottish or Welsh employment domains.

Source and provenance

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 — MHCLG

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEP-IMD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Net household income

Range across the areaWider neighbourhood

£51,158

Mean disposable annual income after tax

Highest — Sevenoaks 009
£53,107
Median
£51,158
Lowest — Sevenoaks 008
£49,208
Source period
FYE 2023
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
2 / 2

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

After income tax, national insurance, council tax and pension contributions, and not adjusted for household size. A modelled estimate for the financial year ending March 2023, not a measurement: ONS combine the Family Resources Survey with census and administrative data, and the method tends to pull estimates towards the average. Every figure carries a wide confidence interval — the true value could plausibly sit anywhere in it, so a difference between neighbouring areas may not be real. It is a mean, and income is skewed, so it sits above the typical household. The area is an MSOA of 2,000 to 6,000 households, several neighbourhoods rather than one street. England and Wales only: ONS publish no Scottish equivalent.

Source and provenance

Small area model-based income estimates — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-INCOME · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Equivalised household income after housing costs

Range across the areaWider neighbourhood

£41,562

Mean disposable income after rent or mortgage, adjusted for household size

Highest — Sevenoaks 009
£41,730
Median
£41,562
Lowest — Sevenoaks 008
£41,393
Source period
FYE 2023
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
2 / 2

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

What is left after housing costs, adjusted for household size. In expensive areas this can be far below the before-housing-costs figure, which is the point of showing both. A modelled estimate for the financial year ending March 2023, not a measurement: ONS combine the Family Resources Survey with census and administrative data, and the method tends to pull estimates towards the average. Every figure carries a wide confidence interval — the true value could plausibly sit anywhere in it, so a difference between neighbouring areas may not be real. It is a mean, and income is skewed, so it sits above the typical household. The area is an MSOA of 2,000 to 6,000 households, several neighbourhoods rather than one street. England and Wales only: ONS publish no Scottish equivalent.

Source and provenance

Small area model-based income estimates — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-INCOME · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Business premises in this neighbourhood

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

20

Premises with a rateable value, at the last 31 March

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts are rounded to the nearest 10 by the publisher, so a quiet residential area showing 0 may hold a handful of premises rather than none. A count of rateable business premises in this neighbourhood, from the Valuation Office's annual statistics — not a figure for any one property, and not a count of businesses: one firm can occupy several premises and one premises can stand empty. Rateable value is a notional annual rent assessed by the Valuation Office at a fixed valuation date, so it is neither the rent anyone pays nor the business rates bill. Areas with between one and four premises have their figures withheld by the publisher, so a blank here means a very small number rather than none. Individual rateable values are published only through the official Find a Business Rates Valuation service, under a licence that does not permit republication here.

Source and provenance

Non-domestic rating list / Find a business rates valuation — Valuation Office Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-VOA · Open Government Licence v3.0 (statistics only) · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Valuation Office Agency, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Economically inactive residents aged 16+

Published area figureTown or built-up area

40.3%

Residents aged 16 and over who were not working or actively seeking work

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 snapshot during coronavirus restrictions. The denominator is all usual residents aged 16 and over.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Employment rate

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Residents aged 16-64 in work, as a share of all residents that age

Sevenoaks
73.9%
Source period
2026-03
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A survey estimate for the WHOLE LOCAL AUTHORITY, not this postcode or neighbourhood. It comes from the Annual Population Survey, so it is a range rather than a figure: the published 95% confidence interval is stored and shown beside it, and two areas whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Smaller authorities have the widest intervals.

Source and provenance

Annual Population Survey via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

LAB-NOMIS-APS · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Number of children in low-income families, before housing costs

Representative locationWard

70

Children under 16 in this ward

Source period
FYE 2025

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

A count of children, so a large ward will show a larger number than a small one with more hardship. The share is the comparable figure. This is an administrative count, not a survey: it counts children in families that appear in DWP and HMRC benefit and tax-credit records, calibrated to the national Households Below Average Income total. Families entitled to support who do not claim are not in it, so treat the figure as a floor rather than a measurement. Rates divide by a mid-year child population estimate that can lag local change, small counts are rounded and disclosure-controlled, and the figures are provisional and revised in later releases. The area is an electoral ward, typically several thousand people. This measure does cover England, Scotland and Wales on one definition.

Source and provenance

Children in low income families local area statistics — DWP

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CHILDLOW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Retail premises in this neighbourhood

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

10

Shops, pubs and other retail premises

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The publisher's retail sector covers shops, pubs, restaurants, hotels and similar premises. It counts what is on the rating list, which includes premises standing empty — a full high street and a boarded-up one can count the same. A count of rateable business premises in this neighbourhood, from the Valuation Office's annual statistics — not a figure for any one property, and not a count of businesses: one firm can occupy several premises and one premises can stand empty. Rateable value is a notional annual rent assessed by the Valuation Office at a fixed valuation date, so it is neither the rent anyone pays nor the business rates bill. Areas with between one and four premises have their figures withheld by the publisher, so a blank here means a very small number rather than none. Individual rateable values are published only through the official Find a Business Rates Valuation service, under a licence that does not permit republication here.

Source and provenance

Non-domestic rating list / Find a business rates valuation — Valuation Office Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-VOA · Open Government Licence v3.0 (statistics only) · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Valuation Office Agency, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Retired residents aged 16+

Published area figureTown or built-up area

27.7%

Residents aged 16 and over who were economically inactive because they were retired

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 snapshot. This is a share of all usual residents aged 16 and over, not a share only of inactive residents.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Unemployment rate

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Economically active residents aged 16-64 who are unemployed

Sevenoaks
4.1%
Source period
2026-03
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

The international (ILO) measure: people without work who are available for and seeking it, as a share of the economically active. It is a survey estimate for the whole local authority and carries a 95% confidence interval that is often as large as the differences between areas. It is NOT the claimant count shown elsewhere in this report -- the two measure different populations and will not agree.

Source and provenance

Annual Population Survey via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

LAB-NOMIS-APS · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Economic activity rate

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Residents aged 16-64 either working or looking for work

Sevenoaks
77.1%
Source period
2026-03
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A survey estimate for the whole local authority with a 95% confidence interval. Counts residents aged 16-64 who are in work or actively seeking it; students, carers and the retired are outside it by definition, so a low figure describes the age and circumstance mix of an area as much as its job market.

Source and provenance

Annual Population Survey via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

LAB-NOMIS-APS · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Largest business sector in this neighbourhood

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Offices

The biggest of retail, offices, industry and other

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The largest of the publisher's four sectors by number of premises. Where two are close this can change year to year without the area changing, and "Other" is a residual category holding everything from schools to car parks. A count of rateable business premises in this neighbourhood, from the Valuation Office's annual statistics — not a figure for any one property, and not a count of businesses: one firm can occupy several premises and one premises can stand empty. Rateable value is a notional annual rent assessed by the Valuation Office at a fixed valuation date, so it is neither the rent anyone pays nor the business rates bill. Areas with between one and four premises have their figures withheld by the publisher, so a blank here means a very small number rather than none. Individual rateable values are published only through the official Find a Business Rates Valuation service, under a licence that does not permit republication here.

Source and provenance

Non-domestic rating list / Find a business rates valuation — Valuation Office Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-VOA · Open Government Licence v3.0 (statistics only) · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Valuation Office Agency, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Long-term sick or disabled residents aged 16+

Published area figureTown or built-up area

1.6%

Residents aged 16 and over who were economically inactive because of long-term sickness or disability

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 snapshot. This is a share of all usual residents aged 16 and over, not a share only of inactive residents.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Economic inactivity rate

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Residents aged 16-64 neither working nor seeking work

Sevenoaks
22.9%
Source period
2026-03
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A survey estimate for the whole local authority with a 95% confidence interval. Economic inactivity is not unemployment: it includes students, people caring for family, the long-term sick and the retired under 65, and a university town will read high for reasons that have nothing to do with the labour market.

Source and provenance

Annual Population Survey via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

LAB-NOMIS-APS · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Economically inactive students aged 16+

Published area figureTown or built-up area

3.9%

Residents aged 16 and over who were economically inactive students

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 snapshot. This is a share of all usual residents aged 16 and over, not a share only of inactive residents.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Number of children in low-income families, after housing costs

Representative locationWard

95

Children under 16 in this ward

Source period
FYE 2025

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

A count of children, so it reflects ward size as much as hardship. The share is the comparable figure. This is an administrative count, not a survey: it counts children in families that appear in DWP and HMRC benefit and tax-credit records, calibrated to the national Households Below Average Income total. Families entitled to support who do not claim are not in it, so treat the figure as a floor rather than a measurement. Rates divide by a mid-year child population estimate that can lag local change, small counts are rounded and disclosure-controlled, and the figures are provisional and revised in later releases. The area is an electoral ward, typically several thousand people. This measure does cover England, Scotland and Wales on one definition.

Source and provenance

Children in low income families local area statistics — DWP

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CHILDLOW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Total rateable value in this neighbourhood

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

£570,000

All rateable business premises added together

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A total, so it mostly reflects how many premises there are. A neighbourhood with one large distribution shed can outweigh a street of shops. A count of rateable business premises in this neighbourhood, from the Valuation Office's annual statistics — not a figure for any one property, and not a count of businesses: one firm can occupy several premises and one premises can stand empty. Rateable value is a notional annual rent assessed by the Valuation Office at a fixed valuation date, so it is neither the rent anyone pays nor the business rates bill. Areas with between one and four premises have their figures withheld by the publisher, so a blank here means a very small number rather than none. Individual rateable values are published only through the official Find a Business Rates Valuation service, under a licence that does not permit republication here.

Source and provenance

Non-domestic rating list / Find a business rates valuation — Valuation Office Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-VOA · Open Government Licence v3.0 (statistics only) · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Valuation Office Agency, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Average rateable value in this neighbourhood

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

£28,500

Total rateable value divided by number of premises

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A plain mean, which one large premises pulls a long way in a small area. The Valuation Office publishes a median only down to local authority level, so there is no neighbourhood median to show beside it. A count of rateable business premises in this neighbourhood, from the Valuation Office's annual statistics — not a figure for any one property, and not a count of businesses: one firm can occupy several premises and one premises can stand empty. Rateable value is a notional annual rent assessed by the Valuation Office at a fixed valuation date, so it is neither the rent anyone pays nor the business rates bill. Areas with between one and four premises have their figures withheld by the publisher, so a blank here means a very small number rather than none. Individual rateable values are published only through the official Find a Business Rates Valuation service, under a licence that does not permit republication here.

Source and provenance

Non-domestic rating list / Find a business rates valuation — Valuation Office Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PROP-VOA · Open Government Licence v3.0 (statistics only) · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Valuation Office Agency, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Looking after home or family

Published area figureTown or built-up area

5.2%

Residents aged 16 and over who were economically inactive while looking after home or family

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 snapshot. This is a share of all usual residents aged 16 and over, not a share only of inactive residents.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Residents with degree-level qualifications

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Aged 16-64 holding a qualification at RQF level 4 or above

Sevenoaks
58.7%
Source period
2025-12
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A survey estimate for the whole local authority with a 95% confidence interval. RQF level 4 and above covers degrees, higher national certificates and diplomas and equivalent vocational qualifications. The qualifications module of the survey is published once a year on the calendar year, so this figure is older than the employment figures beside it, and it rests on what respondents report about themselves.

Source and provenance

Annual Population Survey via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

LAB-NOMIS-APS · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Other economic inactivity

Published area figureTown or built-up area

1.8%

Residents aged 16 and over with another reason for economic inactivity

Source period
Census 2021

Census 2021 snapshot. This is a share of all usual residents aged 16 and over, not a share only of inactive residents.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Residents with no qualifications

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Aged 16-64 reporting no formal qualification

Sevenoaks
6.7%
Source period
2024-12
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A survey estimate for the whole local authority with a 95% confidence interval, published once a year on the calendar year rather than quarterly. Counts residents aged 16-64 who report holding no formal qualification. Qualifications gained abroad are not always recognised by the classification, so areas with many recent arrivals can read high for that reason.

Source and provenance

Annual Population Survey via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

LAB-NOMIS-APS · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Share of workers employed part time

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Of residents aged 16-64 in work

Sevenoaks
31.5%
Source period
2026-03
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A survey estimate for the whole local authority with a 95% confidence interval. Full time and part time are as the respondent describes their own job, not a fixed hours threshold, and part-time working is a choice as often as it is a constraint -- a high share is not on its own a sign of a weak job market.

Source and provenance

Annual Population Survey via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

LAB-NOMIS-APS · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Change in jobs, 2015 to 2024

Published area figureTown or built-up area

11.1%

Percentage change in employment located in the town

Source period
2015 to 2024

Based on BRES workplace employment, not employed residents. BRES includes employees and working proprietors but not all self-employed people.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

People claiming unemployment-related benefits

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

5

Universal Credit claimants required to seek work, plus JSA

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Counts people claiming unemployment-related benefits -- Universal Credit while required to search for work, plus remaining Jobseeker's Allowance claimants. THIS IS NOT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE. It leaves out unemployed people who do not claim, includes some people who are in low-paid work, and its level moves when benefit rules change rather than when the job market does. Values are rounded, so small numbers are approximate, and the figure describes the statistical neighbourhood containing this postcode -- around 1,500 people -- not the postcode itself.

Source and provenance

Claimant Count via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

LAB-NOMIS-CC · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Claimants as a share of working-age residents

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

0.8%

Claimants as a percentage of residents aged 16-64

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The claimant count expressed as a share of residents aged 16-64. THIS IS NOT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: it counts benefit claimants, a smaller and differently defined population, and it responds to changes in benefit rules. The underlying count is rounded, so in a small neighbourhood the share is approximate. It describes the statistical neighbourhood containing this postcode, not the postcode itself.

Source and provenance

Claimant Count via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

LAB-NOMIS-CC · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Jobs gained or lost, 2015 to 2024

Published area figureTown or built-up area

250

Absolute change in employment located in the town

Source period
2015 to 2024

Based on BRES workplace employment, not employed residents. A negative value means fewer jobs than in 2015.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Claimants aged 16-24

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

5

Of the people claiming unemployment-related benefits here

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The 16-24 part of the claimant count for this statistical neighbourhood. Same warning as the headline figure: these are benefit claimants, not unemployed people, and the two are not the same population. Age splits of an already rounded small-area count are coarse -- most neighbourhoods return 0, 5 or 10 -- so read it as an order of magnitude rather than a number.

Source and provenance

Claimant Count via Nomis — Office for National Statistics / Nomis

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

LAB-NOMIS-CC · Open Government Licence / Nomis terms · imported 24 August 2026

Companies registered at this postcode

Exact area totalPostcode

363

Active companies whose registered office is this postcode

Source period
2026-10
How calculated
Sum of complete unique source areas
Source areas
172 / 172

Counts companies whose REGISTERED OFFICE is this postcode. A registered office is not a place of business: accountants and company-formation agents register thousands of companies at a single address, so a large number here usually means one agent rather than a business district. Sole traders and ordinary partnerships are not on the register at all, so this undercounts businesses as most people use the word. Only companies with an active status on the monthly snapshot are counted; dissolved and liquidating companies are excluded. No address, company name or officer detail is stored or shown.

Source and provenance

Companies House company register — Companies House

Method: Sum of complete unique source areas.

BUS-CH · Companies House data terms; public register data · imported 2 October 2026

Qualifications

Representative locationTown or built-up area

Residents grouped by highest qualification level

Level 1 or entry level
525 (9.0%)
Level 2
820 (14.1%)
Level 3
935 (16.0%)
Level 4 or above
2,385 (40.9%)
No qualifications
760 (13.0%)
Other qualifications
405 (6.9%)
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Reading at the representative postcode

Category counts are summed from wholly contained source areas; published disclosure-control adjustments are retained.

Census 2021 estimate published on the 2022 built-up-area boundary. Counts are rounded to the nearest five and may not match the current 2024 place boundary. This Census series cannot be made more recent between censuses.

Source and provenance

Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-ONS-BUA-CENSUS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Companies incorporated here in the last 12 months

Exact area totalPostcode

48

Registered at this postcode and incorporated within the year

Source period
2026-10
How calculated
Sum of complete unique source areas
Source areas
172 / 172

Of the active companies registered at this postcode, how many were incorporated in the twelve months before the snapshot. Company formation is cheap and common, and a new company is not a new business or a new job -- many never trade. Where a formation agent uses this postcode, this number counts the agent's throughput rather than local activity. No company or address detail is stored or shown.

Source and provenance

Companies House company register — Companies House

Method: Sum of complete unique source areas.

BUS-CH · Companies House data terms; public register data · imported 2 October 2026

Employment status

Representative locationTown or built-up area

Working-age residents grouped as employed or not employed

Employed
3,330 (57.1%)
Not employed
2,500 (42.9%)
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Reading at the representative postcode

Category counts are summed from wholly contained source areas; published disclosure-control adjustments are retained.

Census 2021 estimate published on the 2022 built-up-area boundary. Counts are rounded to the nearest five and may not match the current 2024 place boundary. This Census series cannot be made more recent between censuses.

Source and provenance

Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-ONS-BUA-CENSUS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Companies registered in this postcode district

Representative locationPostcode district

1,222

Active companies across the whole postcode district

Source period
2026-10

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Active companies registered anywhere in this postcode district, which covers a much wider area than the postcode itself. Registered offices are not trading premises, and a single formation agent in the district can dominate the total. Sole traders are not on the register.

Source and provenance

Companies House company register — Companies House

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

BUS-CH · Companies House data terms; public register data · imported 2 October 2026

Largest business category on the register here

Representative locationPostcode district

Professional, scientific and technical

The largest SIC section among companies registered in this district

Source period
2026-10

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The largest single category among companies registered in this postcode district, from the SIC code each company declares for itself. Declared codes are self-reported, frequently generic and rarely updated. Companies that declare themselves dormant or non-trading, and those that declare nothing at all, are shown as such rather than folded into a real industry -- in some districts they are the largest category, which is itself the clearest evidence that these are registered offices rather than workplaces. Published only for districts with enough companies that no individual one can be inferred.

Source and provenance

Companies House company register — Companies House

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

BUS-CH · Companies House data terms; public register data · imported 2 October 2026

Occupation of employed residents

Representative locationTown or built-up area

Employed residents grouped by broad occupation

Administrative and secretarial
375 (11.3%)
Associate professional and technical
545 (16.4%)
Caring, leisure and other services
235 (7.1%)
Elementary occupations
155 (4.7%)
Managers, directors and senior officials
700 (21.0%)
Process, plant and machine operatives
105 (3.2%)
Professional occupations
750 (22.5%)
Sales and customer service
160 (4.8%)
Skilled trades
305 (9.2%)
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Reading at the representative postcode

Category counts are summed from wholly contained source areas; published disclosure-control adjustments are retained.

Census 2021 estimate published on the 2022 built-up-area boundary. Counts are rounded to the nearest five and may not match the current 2024 place boundary. This Census series cannot be made more recent between censuses.

Source and provenance

Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-ONS-BUA-CENSUS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Company types registered in this district

Representative locationPostcode district
Private Limited Company
94.0%
Private company limited by guarantee
2.6%
Limited Liability Partnership
1.6%

The most common legal forms on the register here

Source period
2026-10

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The most common legal forms among companies registered in this postcode district -- private limited companies, limited liability partnerships and so on. Almost everywhere is dominated by private limited companies, so the interest is in what sits behind them. Published only for districts with enough companies that no individual one can be inferred, and never at postcode level.

Source and provenance

Companies House company register — Companies House

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

BUS-CH · Companies House data terms; public register data · imported 2 October 2026

Hours worked

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

31 to 48 hours

346

49 hours or more

167

16 to 30 hours

115

15 hours or less

96

Employed residents by usual weekly-hours band

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The denominator is residents aged 16 and over who were employed in the week before the Census. Bands are not a numerical average. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Socio-economic classification (NS-SEC)

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Higher managerial and professional

397

Lower managerial and professional

360

Intermediate occupations

155

Small employers and own-account workers

148

Full-time students

88

Semi-routine occupations

81

Routine occupations

46

Lower supervisory and technical

34

Never worked or long-term unemployed

29

Residents aged 16 and over by NS-SEC class

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

NS-SEC is an occupational classification, not a score, rank or measure of an individual's worth. Full-time students and people who have never worked are explicit categories. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Employment history

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Not worked in the last 12 months

463

Worked in the last 12 months

78

Never worked

75

People not in employment by when they last worked

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The denominator is residents aged 16 and over who were not in employment in the week before the Census, not all residents and not only people actively seeking work. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Jobs per working-age resident

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Number of jobs located in the local authority per resident aged 16 to 64

Sevenoaks
0.81 jobs per resident aged 16 to 64
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A workplace concentration ratio, not an employment rate. Commuting centres can exceed one because people travel in to work; the City of London is an extreme outlier.

Source and provenance

Job density — Office for National Statistics via Nomis

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

LAB-ELS-JOB-DENSITY · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics via Nomis. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Gross median weekly pay

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Median weekly gross pay for employee jobs, based on where employees live

Sevenoaks
£707
Source period
2025
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

ASHE sample-survey median for employee jobs, combining full-time and part-time work. It excludes self-employment, is not household income, and the 2025 estimate is provisional.

Source and provenance

Gross median weekly pay — Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

LAB-ELS-WEEKLY-PAY · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Economically active

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

60.4%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009A
66.4%
Median
60.4%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009B
54.1%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Employed

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

57.6%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009A
63.4%
Median
57.6%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009B
51.4%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Occupations

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Managers and directors

205

Professional

202

Associate professional and technical

123

Administrative and secretarial

68

Skilled trades

39

Caring, leisure and other service

37

Sales and customer service

25

Elementary

15

Process, plant and machine operatives

14

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Retired

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

25.9%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009B
34.8%
Median
25.9%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
21.6%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Self-employed

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

13.6%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009C
14.4%
Median
13.6%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
11.5%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Unemployed

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

2.4%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009E
3.3%
Median
2.4%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
1.3%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Work from home

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

46.5%

Highest — Sevenoaks 009D
60.1%
Median
46.5%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
35.9%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Industry of employed residents

Representative locationWider neighbourhood

Wholesale, retail and motor repair

416

Education

394

Professional, scientific and technical

381

Construction

373

Health and social work

350

Financial and insurance

346

Public administration and defence

196

Information and communication

192

Administrative and support services

178

Other industries

176

Manufacturing

117

Transport and storage

102

Accommodation and food

93

Real estate

82

Agriculture, forestry and fishing

22

Energy supply

15

Water, sewerage and waste

15

Mining and quarrying

1

Broad industry groups for residents employed in Census week

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Census-day industry describes employed residents aged 16 and over in March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. It is a profile of the surrounding MSOA, not workplaces or jobs at this postcode.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 MSOA topic summaries — Office for National Statistics via Nomis

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW-MSOA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics via Nomis. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

08

Local energy

Domestic gas and electricity consumption, and the local generation picture.

37figures

Estimated households in fuel poverty

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

42.5

Modelled number of fuel-poor households in this neighbourhood, 2024

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
82
Median
42.5
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009B
36
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

A modelled count, not a list of households. A neighbourhood with more homes will show a bigger number without being worse off, which is why the proportion beside it is the figure to read. A MODELLED estimate for the neighbourhood (LSOA) around this postcode for 2024, not a measurement and not a statement about any household here. England measures fuel poverty with the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) definition: a home rated D or worse for energy efficiency whose residual income after modelled energy costs falls below the poverty line. It is not a count of households unable to afford heating, and it is not a bill. The publisher states that small-area estimates "should only be used to look at general trends and identify areas of particularly high or low fuel poverty. They should not be used to identify trends over time within an LSOA, or to compare LSOAs with similar fuel poverty levels due to very small sample sizes and consequent instability". Scotland and Wales define fuel poverty differently and their figures are not on this scale.

Source and provenance

Sub-regional fuel poverty — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-FUELPOV · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

Estimated proportion of households in fuel poverty

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

7.0%

Modelled share of homes in this neighbourhood that are fuel poor, 2024

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
12.4%
Median
7.0%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
5.2%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

The headline figure, and the one the publisher intends to be read. A MODELLED estimate for the neighbourhood (LSOA) around this postcode for 2024, not a measurement and not a statement about any household here. England measures fuel poverty with the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) definition: a home rated D or worse for energy efficiency whose residual income after modelled energy costs falls below the poverty line. It is not a count of households unable to afford heating, and it is not a bill. The publisher states that small-area estimates "should only be used to look at general trends and identify areas of particularly high or low fuel poverty. They should not be used to identify trends over time within an LSOA, or to compare LSOAs with similar fuel poverty levels due to very small sample sizes and consequent instability". Scotland and Wales define fuel poverty differently and their figures are not on this scale.

Source and provenance

Sub-regional fuel poverty — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-FUELPOV · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

Households in this neighbourhood

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

660.5

Modelled number of homes in the LSOA, 2024

Highest — Sevenoaks 009D
690
Median
660.5
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
556
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

The denominator the proportion is worked out from, published as modelled rather than counted. It is close to but not the same as a census household count. A MODELLED estimate for the neighbourhood (LSOA) around this postcode for 2024, not a measurement and not a statement about any household here. England measures fuel poverty with the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) definition: a home rated D or worse for energy efficiency whose residual income after modelled energy costs falls below the poverty line. It is not a count of households unable to afford heating, and it is not a bill. The publisher states that small-area estimates "should only be used to look at general trends and identify areas of particularly high or low fuel poverty. They should not be used to identify trends over time within an LSOA, or to compare LSOAs with similar fuel poverty levels due to very small sample sizes and consequent instability". Scotland and Wales define fuel poverty differently and their figures are not on this scale.

Source and provenance

Sub-regional fuel poverty — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-FUELPOV · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

Fuel poverty in this local authority

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Modelled share of homes across the whole council area, 2024

Sevenoaks
8.1%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

The council-wide figure, given so the neighbourhood estimate can be read against something. It rests on a far larger sample and is the more stable of the two. A MODELLED estimate for the neighbourhood (LSOA) around this postcode for 2024, not a measurement and not a statement about any household here. England measures fuel poverty with the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) definition: a home rated D or worse for energy efficiency whose residual income after modelled energy costs falls below the poverty line. It is not a count of households unable to afford heating, and it is not a bill. The publisher states that small-area estimates "should only be used to look at general trends and identify areas of particularly high or low fuel poverty. They should not be used to identify trends over time within an LSOA, or to compare LSOAs with similar fuel poverty levels due to very small sample sizes and consequent instability". Scotland and Wales define fuel poverty differently and their figures are not on this scale.

Source and provenance

Sub-regional fuel poverty — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

DEMO-FUELPOV · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

Typical household electricity use

Representative locationPostcode

3,104 kWh

Median annual consumption across meters on this postcode

Source period
2024

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Median annual consumption across the domestic meters on this postcode. Postcodes with fewer than five meters are not published, so an absent figure means too few meters to report — not low usage. Consumption depends heavily on household size and heating type.

Source and provenance

Postcode-level electricity statistics — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-ELEC · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Domestic electricity meters

Representative locationPostcode

9

Meters counted on this postcode

Source period
2024

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The number of domestic electricity meters, which is close to but not the same as the number of homes. Fewer than five is not published.

Source and provenance

Postcode-level electricity statistics — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-ELEC · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Typical household gas use

Representative locationPostcode

16,861 kWh

Median annual consumption across meters on this postcode

Source period
2024

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Median annual gas consumption across the domestic meters on this postcode. An absent figure means either too few meters to publish or no gas supply — the published data cannot tell the two apart, so it should not be read as "no gas is used here".

Source and provenance

Postcode-level gas statistics — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-GAS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Domestic gas meters

Representative locationPostcode

10

Meters counted on this postcode

Source period
2024

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Domestic gas meters on this postcode. A postcode off the gas grid has none, and so does one with too few to publish.

Source and provenance

Postcode-level gas statistics — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-GAS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Annual solar irradiation

Range across the areaPostcode sector

1,295.5 kWh/m²

Energy falling on a square metre of optimally angled panel

Highest — TN14 5
1,297 kWh/m²
Median
1,295.5 kWh/m²
Lowest — TN15 6
1,294 kWh/m²
Source period
2005-2023
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
2 / 2

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled from satellite observations averaged over 2005-2023 for an unshaded surface at the best angle, at a point in this postcode sector. It is a property of the location and the weather, not of any building: roof pitch, direction, and shading from trees and neighbouring buildings all change what reaches an actual panel, and none of them is known here. Source: PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026.

Source and provenance

PVGIS 5.3 — European Commission Joint Research Centre

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENER-PVGIS · European Commission reuse policy (CC BY 4.0). Confirmed 2026-08-09 as covering figures derived from the API, which publishes no separate terms. Attribution is required and is carried in every metric caveat. · imported 25 August 2026

PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026

Electricity distribution network operator

Representative locationElectricity network area

UK Power Networks (South Eastern Power Networks)

The company that owns and operates the electricity network here

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The distribution network operator is not your electricity supplier — you choose a supplier, but the network operator is fixed by geography and is who you call in a power cut. Only seven of the fourteen GB licence areas publish an openly licensed boundary, so this is blank across the Midlands, South West, South Wales, Yorkshire, the North East and the North West. That blank is our licence gap, not an absence of an operator.

Source and provenance

DNO open-data portals — GB distribution network operators / NIE Networks separately

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-DNO · CC BY 4.0 (only datasets explicitly declaring it are ingested) · imported 29 August 2026

Contains data from UK Power Networks, SP Energy Networks and Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Typical output of a 4 kWp solar system

Range across the areaPostcode sector

4,067 kWh

A standard domestic array at the best angle, over a year

Highest — TN14 5
4,071 kWh
Median
4,067 kWh
Lowest — TN15 6
4,062 kWh
Source period
2005-2023
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
2 / 2

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

A modelled figure for a 4 kWp roof-mounted array facing the best direction at the best angle with nothing shading it, assuming 14% system losses. It is what this LOCATION could support, not a prediction for any particular house. A north-facing roof yields around 40% of a south-facing one at the same address, and shading from a single tree can cost more than moving hundreds of miles north. Source: PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026.

Source and provenance

PVGIS 5.3 — European Commission Joint Research Centre

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENER-PVGIS · European Commission reuse policy (CC BY 4.0). Confirmed 2026-08-09 as covering figures derived from the API, which publishes no separate terms. Attribution is required and is carried in every metric caveat. · imported 25 August 2026

PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026

Best panel tilt angle

Range across the areaPostcode sector

39°

The slope that captures most energy over a year here

Highest — TN15 6
39°
Median
39°
Lowest — TN14 5
39°
Source period
2005-2023
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
2 / 2

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

The tilt that would collect the most energy over a year at this latitude. A real installation follows the roof it is fixed to, and a fixed angle a few degrees away from optimum costs very little. Source: PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026.

Source and provenance

PVGIS 5.3 — European Commission Joint Research Centre

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENER-PVGIS · European Commission reuse policy (CC BY 4.0). Confirmed 2026-08-09 as covering figures derived from the API, which publishes no separate terms. Attribution is required and is carried in every metric caveat. · imported 25 August 2026

PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026

Best panel orientation

Representative locationPostcode sector

178°

The compass direction that collects most energy here

Source period
2005-2023

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town. The named source result is South (178°).

The compass bearing panels would ideally face, which in Great Britain is always close to due south. It is not a statement about any roof at this address. Source: PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026.

Source and provenance

PVGIS 5.3 — European Commission Joint Research Centre

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-PVGIS · European Commission reuse policy (CC BY 4.0). Confirmed 2026-08-09 as covering figures derived from the API, which publishes no separate terms. Attribution is required and is carried in every metric caveat. · imported 25 August 2026

PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026

Solar projects

Representative locationWithin 5 km

0

Schemes of 150 kW and above that exist or may yet exist

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts solar schemes of 150 kW and above that are operational, being built, approved, or awaiting a planning decision — the stage breakdown is shown with the count. Refused, withdrawn and abandoned applications are excluded. Domestic and small commercial rooftop solar is below the 150 kW threshold and is not in this database at all, so a zero here does not mean no solar panels nearby. Each scheme is a single map reference, not its boundary.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Onshore wind projects

Representative locationWithin 5 km

0

Schemes of 150 kW and above that exist or may yet exist

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts onshore wind schemes that are operational, being built, approved or awaiting a decision; the stage is shown with the count. Refused and abandoned applications are excluded — a great many wind applications are refused, and counting them would describe a landscape that does not exist. A wind farm is recorded as one point, so the nearest turbine may be closer or further than the distance suggests.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Offshore wind projects

Representative locationWithin 10 km

0

Schemes that exist or may yet exist

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Most offshore wind farms sit well beyond 10 km from the coast, and their recorded position is a single point for the whole array, so a zero here is the normal answer even on the coast and says nothing about what is visible from shore. Refused and abandoned schemes are excluded.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Battery storage projects

Representative locationWithin 5 km

0

Schemes that exist or may yet exist

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Grid-scale battery and other energy-storage schemes that are operational, being built, approved or awaiting a decision. Storage does not generate electricity; it moves it in time. Refused and abandoned applications are excluded.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Hydro projects

Representative locationWithin 5 km

0

Schemes of 150 kW and above that exist or may yet exist

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Small, large and pumped-storage hydro of 150 kW and above. Micro-hydro below that threshold, which is most of what exists on small watercourses, is not in this database. Refused and abandoned schemes are excluded.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Biomass and waste-to-energy projects

Representative locationWithin 5 km

0

Schemes that exist or may yet exist

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Groups dedicated biomass, anaerobic digestion, landfill gas, sewage sludge digestion and energy-from-waste incineration, which the database classifies as renewable generation but which differ greatly in what they burn and what they emit locally. Refused and abandoned schemes are excluded.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Other renewable technology projects

Representative locationWithin 5 km

0

Tidal, wave, geothermal, hydrogen and fuel cells

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Everything the database records that is not solar, wind, hydro, battery or biomass — tidal stream and lagoon, wave, geothermal, hydrogen and fuel cells. These are largely demonstration-scale, and most are awaiting a decision rather than operating. Refused and abandoned schemes are excluded.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Renewable energy projects

Representative locationWithin 5 km

0

All technologies, with the stage each has reached

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts projects of 150 kW and above within 5 km that are operational, under construction, approved, or awaiting a planning decision, and shows how many are at each stage. This is a planning database: schemes that were refused, withdrawn or abandoned are deliberately not counted, and a scheme awaiting a decision may never be built. Home rooftop solar is below the threshold and is absent entirely.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Operational renewable capacity

Representative locationWithin 5 km

0 MW

Installed capacity of schemes that are generating

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Adds the installed capacity of schemes recorded as operational only. Capacity is not output: a solar farm rated at 50 MW produces nothing at night and its annual generation is a fraction of that rating. Nothing consented or under construction is included here.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Renewable capacity in the pipeline

Representative locationWithin 5 km

0 MW

Approved, under construction or awaiting a decision

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Capacity that is not generating: schemes under construction, schemes with permission that have not been started, and applications still awaiting a decision. The split between those three stages is shown. An application may be refused and a permission may expire unused, so this is a measure of intent rather than of what will exist.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearest renewable energy project

Representative locationMapped place

5.4 km

Straight-line distance, with the scheme and its stage

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is The Sennocke Centre, High Street - Solar PV Systems — Solar Photovoltaics, 0.4 MW, approved but not yet built.

Straight-line distance to the nearest scheme within 25 km that is operational, being built, approved or awaiting a decision — a refused or abandoned application is never presented as somebody's nearest project. The scheme is named with its stage. Distance is measured to a single reference point for the whole site, so for a large wind or solar farm the nearest turbine or panel may be considerably closer.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Stage of the nearest renewable project

Representative locationMapped place

Planning Permission Granted (The Sennocke Centre, High Street - Solar PV Systems)

As recorded at the last quarterly extract

Source period
Q2 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The stage the nearest project has reached, in the publisher's own wording, and which project it refers to. It describes the same scheme as the distance above. A project with permission may never be built and one awaiting a decision may be refused; the stage is as at the most recent quarterly extract.

Source and provenance

Renewable Energy Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-REPD · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Heat network schemes

Representative locationWithin 5 km

1

Recorded schemes that exist or may yet exist

Source period
Q1 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is 1 under construction.

Counts recorded schemes that are operational, being built, approved or awaiting a decision, with the stage shown. A heat network serves the specific buildings it was built for: a scheme nearby does not mean a property here can connect, and there is no public register of which buildings are served. The database is compiled from planning review and developer outreach with no completeness claim, so "none recorded" is not "none exists".

Source and provenance

Heat Networks Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-HEAT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearest heat network scheme

Representative locationMapped place

4.4 km

Straight-line distance, with the scheme and its stage

Source period
Q1 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Berkeley House, 7 Oakhill Road - 69 Flats, under construction.

Straight-line distance to the nearest recorded scheme within 10 km that exists or may yet exist. Distance to a heat network is not a measure of access: the pipe runs where it was built to run, capacity is finite, and connecting a building that was not designed for it is a major work. This cannot say whether any property is connected or could be.

Source and provenance

Heat Networks Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-HEAT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Stage of the nearest heat network scheme

Representative locationMapped place

Under Construction (Berkeley House, 7 Oakhill Road - 69 Flats)

As recorded at the last quarterly extract

Source period
Q1 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The publisher's own wording for the stage the nearest scheme has reached, and which scheme it is. Only 56 of the 1,494 schemes in Great Britain are operational, so a nearby scheme is much more likely to be a proposal than a working network.

Source and provenance

Heat Networks Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-HEAT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Type and scale of the nearest heat network

Representative locationMapped place

69

Network type, technology and reported connections

Source period
Q1 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Communal network, Air Source Heat Pumps, Domestic buildings, 69 connections.

What the operator declared about the nearest scheme: whether it is communal, district or campus, what technology supplies the heat, and how many connections it reports. Most technical fields in this database are optional and are frequently blank, so this describes what was declared rather than the scheme in full. Connections are a count of buildings or units served, never a statement about which ones.

Source and provenance

Heat Networks Planning Database — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-HEAT · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Emissions per resident

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Council area total divided by its population

Sevenoaks
5.76 t CO2e per resident
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

The council area total divided by its mid-year population. This is NOT a personal carbon footprint: it includes industry, agriculture and through-traffic in the area, so a small authority hosting a refinery or a power station shows a very high figure that no resident caused. It is useful for comparing areas, not for judging households.

Source and provenance

UK local authority greenhouse-gas emissions — DESNZ

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

ENER-GHG · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Council area greenhouse gas emissions

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Everything emitted inside the local authority boundary

Sevenoaks
706.5 kt CO2e
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A whole-council-area estimate: every postcode in this authority shows the same figure. It counts territorial emissions — everything released inside the boundary, including industry, agriculture and traffic passing through — so a single large plant or a motorway can dominate it and say nothing about residents. Aviation, shipping, military transport and F-gases are excluded. Figures are modelled estimates and the whole series is revised each year.

Source and provenance

UK local authority greenhouse-gas emissions — DESNZ

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

ENER-GHG · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Change in emissions since 2005

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Council area total against the start of the series

Sevenoaks
-40.0%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Change in the council area's territorial emissions between the first year of the series and the latest. Most of the national fall came from how electricity is generated rather than from anything that happened locally, and a single industrial site opening or closing can move one authority's figure sharply. Local authority boundaries have also changed over the period.

Source and provenance

UK local authority greenhouse-gas emissions — DESNZ

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

ENER-GHG · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Largest emitting sector

Representative locationCouncil area

61.6%

The sector responsible for most of the council area's emissions

Source period
2024

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Transport.

The single sector responsible for the largest share of this council area's emissions, and how large that share is. Shown beside the total because it is usually what explains it: an authority whose emissions are dominated by industry or by transport is not telling you about the households in it. Sectors are DESNZ's own groupings, and the share is of the net total, which includes any removals from land use and forestry.

Source and provenance

UK local authority greenhouse-gas emissions — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-GHG · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Greenhouse-gas emissions by sector

Representative locationCouncil area

Transport

435 kt CO2e

Domestic

170 kt CO2e

Agriculture

51.2 kt CO2e

Waste

34.6 kt CO2e

Commercial

31.6 kt CO2e

Industry

24.3 kt CO2e

Public Sector

11.9 kt CO2e

LULUCF

-52 kt CO2e

Source period
2024

Emissions by sector for the council area. Land use, land use change and forestry can be negative where an area absorbs more than it releases, and is netted into the total.

Source and provenance

UK local authority greenhouse-gas emissions — DESNZ

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-GHG · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Expected solar photovoltaic (PV) output by month

Representative locationPostcode sector
JFMAMJJASOND

Highest in July at 489 kWh.

Show the numbers
Expected solar photovoltaic (PV) output by month
January158 kWh
February213 kWh
March343 kWh
April454 kWh
May482 kWh
June487 kWh
July489 kWh
August445 kWh
September383 kWh
October276 kWh
November196 kWh
December146 kWh
Source period
2005-2023

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Modelled monthly output of a 4 kWp array at the optimum angle. December typically yields under a tenth of June, which is the point of showing the shape rather than the annual total alone. Source: PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026.

Source and provenance

PVGIS 5.3 — European Commission Joint Research Centre

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-PVGIS · European Commission reuse policy (CC BY 4.0). Confirmed 2026-08-09 as covering figures derived from the API, which publishes no separate terms. Attribution is required and is carried in every metric caveat. · imported 25 August 2026

PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026

Solar resource by month

Representative locationPostcode sector
JFMAMJJASOND

Highest in July at 162 kWh/m².

Show the numbers
Solar resource by month
January47.3 kWh/m²
February64.1 kWh/m²
March105 kWh/m²
April144 kWh/m²
May156 kWh/m²
June160 kWh/m²
July162 kWh/m²
August146 kWh/m²
September123 kWh/m²
October86 kWh/m²
November59.4 kWh/m²
December43.6 kWh/m²
Source period
2005-2023

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Monthly in-plane irradiation averaged over 2005-2023. Source: PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026.

Source and provenance

PVGIS 5.3 — European Commission Joint Research Centre

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENER-PVGIS · European Commission reuse policy (CC BY 4.0). Confirmed 2026-08-09 as covering figures derived from the API, which publishes no separate terms. Attribution is required and is carried in every metric caveat. · imported 25 August 2026

PVGIS © European Communities, 2001-2026

Central heating

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Mains gas

537

Two or more types

64

Electric

15

Oil

12

Tank or bottled gas

5

Renewable

4

No central heating

4

District or communal

1

Other

1

Solid fuel

0

Wood

0

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

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Air, land & environment

Air quality, noise, ground conditions and nearby industrial or waste sites.

79figures

Modelled PM2.5

Range across the area1 km area

7.13 µg/m³

Annual average fine particulate matter

Highest — TQ5458
7.4 µg/m³
Median
7.13 µg/m³
Lowest — TQ5559
7.02 µg/m³
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
12 / 12

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.

Source and provenance

UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).

Modelled PM10

Range across the area1 km area

12.22 µg/m³

Annual average coarse particulate matter

Highest — TQ5458
13.14 µg/m³
Median
12.22 µg/m³
Lowest — TQ5459
11.13 µg/m³
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
12 / 12

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.

Source and provenance

UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).

Modelled nitrogen dioxide

Range across the area1 km area

8.37 µg/m³

Annual average NO₂

Highest — TQ5458
9.24 µg/m³
Median
8.37 µg/m³
Lowest — TQ5559
8.1 µg/m³
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
12 / 12

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.

Source and provenance

UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).

Modelled nitrogen oxides

Range across the area1 km area

10.73 µg/m³ as NO₂

Annual average NOx, expressed as NO₂

Highest — TQ5458
11.94 µg/m³ as NO₂
Median
10.73 µg/m³ as NO₂
Lowest — TQ5559
10.36 µg/m³ as NO₂
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
12 / 12

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.

Source and provenance

UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).

Modelled sulphur dioxide

Range across the area1 km area

0.86 µg/m³

Annual average SO₂

Highest — TQ5458
1.08 µg/m³
Median
0.86 µg/m³
Lowest — TQ5260
0.81 µg/m³
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
12 / 12

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.

Source and provenance

UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).

Modelled benzene

Range across the area1 km area

0.38 µg/m³

Annual average benzene

Highest — TQ5458
0.4 µg/m³
Median
0.38 µg/m³
Lowest — TQ5159
0.37 µg/m³
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
12 / 12

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.

Source and provenance

UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).

Modelled ozone exceedance days

Range across the area1 km area

3.19 days

Days a year the 8-hour ozone target is exceeded

Highest — TQ5259
3.25 days
Median
3.19 days
Lowest — TQ5558
3.11 days
Source period
2024
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
12 / 12

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Defra's published ozone metric: the modelled number of days on which the daily maximum running 8-hour concentration exceeds 120 µg/m³. It is not an annual average concentration, and Defra publish no such figure for ozone. Modelled for the 1 km square containing this postcode, not measured here, and a background estimate that excludes the roadside increment.

Source and provenance

UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).

Indicative radon potential

Range across the area1 km area

Estimated share of homes above the radon Action Level

1 to 3% of homes above the Action Level
10
10 to 30% of homes above the Action Level
0
3 to 5% of homes above the Action Level
Suppressed
30% or more of homes above the Action Level
0
5 to 10% of homes above the Action Level
0
Less than 1% of homes above the Action Level
Suppressed
Source period
2021
How calculated
Counts using consistent category definitions
Source areas
12 / 12

Small category cells and a complementary cell are suppressed to prevent differencing.

This is the estimated chance that a home in this 1 km square exceeds the 200 Bq/m³ radon Action Level. It is NOT a measurement of radon at this address, and no map can tell you what any individual property contains — only a test in the property itself can, over three to six months. The mapping is also deliberately precautionary: BGS class each square by the HIGHEST radon potential found anywhere within it, so most homes in a square have a lower potential than the band shown. It does not apply to basements, cellars or underground rooms at all, which should be treated as higher risk wherever they are. For a definitive assessment of a specific address, UKHSA's UKradon service sells an address report.

Source and provenance

Indicative radon potential map — BGS / UKHSA

Method: Counts using consistent category definitions.

ENV-RADON · Open Government Licence v3.0 (BGS/UKHSA) · imported 25 August 2026

Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Contains UK Health Security Agency data.

Radon Affected Area

Range across the area1 km area

Whether UKHSA classify this square as radon affected

No — this square is below the Affected Area threshold
Suppressed
Yes — this square is within a radon Affected Area
Suppressed
Source period
2021
How calculated
Counts using consistent category definitions
Source areas
12 / 12

Small category cells and a complementary cell are suppressed to prevent differencing.

UKHSA define a radon Affected Area as one where at least one home in a hundred is expected to exceed the Action Level. This applies that definition to the indicative 1 km band, so it inherits the same precaution: the square is classed by its worst point, and most homes inside an Affected Area are not above the Action Level. Being inside one is a reason to test, not a finding about this property.

Source and provenance

Indicative radon potential map — BGS / UKHSA

Method: Counts using consistent category definitions.

ENV-RADON · Open Government Licence v3.0 (BGS/UKHSA) · imported 25 August 2026

Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Contains UK Health Security Agency data.

Nearest air-quality monitoring station

Representative locationMapped place

London Bexley

Closest automatic station currently reporting

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The closest station on the automatic network that is currently publishing readings. Around 570 monitoring sites are open across Great Britain but most are diffusion tubes and samplers with no hourly output, so a nearer site may exist that cannot tell you anything about today.

Source and provenance

UK-AIR monitoring / Sensor Observation Service — Defra + devolved administrations

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-AIRLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Air quality data funded by Defra, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.

Distance to nearest monitoring station

Representative locationMapped place

17 km

Straight-line distance to the closest reporting station

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Straight-line distance. There are only around 213 automatic stations for the whole UK — roughly one per 1,100 km² — so this is often kilometres and in rural areas tens of kilometres. The further away it is, the less its readings say about the air here.

Source and provenance

UK-AIR monitoring / Sensor Observation Service — Defra + devolved administrations

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-AIRLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Air quality data funded by Defra, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.

Nearest legally designated site

Representative locationMapped area

under 10 m

Closest SSSI, SAC, SPA, Ramsar, nature reserve, National Park or National Landscape

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is National Landscape: Kent Downs.

Statutory designations only. The ancient woodland and priority habitat inventories are excluded here because they map habitat rather than confer a designation.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-NATURE · Open Government Licence for most datasets; check each layer · imported 24 August 2026

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Type of the nearest monitoring station

Representative locationMapped place

Suburban Background

What kind of location that station measures

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Defra classify every site by what it is there to measure. A Rural Background station is sited away from traffic on purpose and an Urban Traffic station sits at a kerb, so the same reading means very different things depending on which one produced it. If the station type does not match the surroundings here, its numbers will be wrong for this postcode in a predictable direction.

Source and provenance

UK-AIR monitoring / Sensor Observation Service — Defra + devolved administrations

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-AIRLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Air quality data funded by Defra, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.

Average maximum temperature

Representative locationRegion

14.7 °C

Daily maximum, 1991–2020 average

Source period
1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.

Source and provenance

HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.

Nearest storm overflow

Representative locationMapped place

Home Farm, discharging to Freshwater River

The closest monitored outfall, and what it discharges into

Source period
2024

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A storm overflow is a relief point on the sewer network that discharges to the watercourse named here when the system is overloaded. It is near this postcode; the water it discharges into is not the water at this postcode. Only monitored overflows appear at all.

Source and provenance

Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

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Average minimum temperature

Representative locationRegion

6.6 °C

Daily minimum, 1991–2020 average

Source period
1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.

Source and provenance

HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.

Distance to nearest storm overflow

Representative locationMapped place

1.9 km

Straight-line distance to the closest monitored outfall

Source period
2024

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Home Farm.

Straight-line distance to the outfall recorded in the Environment Agency consents database, within 10 km. Proximity to an outfall is not exposure to it: it discharges into a watercourse, not onto the surrounding land.

Source and provenance

Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearest flood-warning area

Representative locationMapped area

450 m

The closest area the Environment Agency warns for

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is River Darent from Otford to Darenth — River Darent. A flood warning area is where the Environment Agency operates a warning service; it is not a map of which properties flood..

A flood warning area is where the Environment Agency operates a warning service for a river or the sea. It is not a flood risk map and not a flood extent: many properties inside one have never flooded, and surface water and groundwater flooding happen largely outside these areas. Distance is measured to the published outline where it is held and to the area centre otherwise.

Source and provenance

Environment Agency flood monitoring — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-FLOODLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 28 August 2026

this uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)

Average temperature

Representative locationRegion

10.6 °C

Daily mean, 1991–2020 average

Source period
1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.

Source and provenance

HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.

Nearest river-level monitoring station

Representative locationMapped place

1.0 km

Straight-line distance to the closest gauging station

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford on the River Darent at Otford. A gauge on a watercourse — its distance says nothing about whether water reaches this postcode..

A telemetry station on a watercourse, within 25 km. Its distance describes where the Environment Agency measures a river, not where water would reach.

Source and provenance

Environment Agency flood monitoring — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-FLOODLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 28 August 2026

this uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)

Annual rainfall

Representative locationRegion

806.1 mm

Total in an average year, 1991–2020

Source period
1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.

Source and provenance

HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.

Annual sunshine

Representative locationRegion

1,670.8 hours

Hours of bright sunshine in an average year, 1991–2020

Source period
1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.

Source and provenance

HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.

Average July maximum

Representative locationRegion

22.3 °C

Daily maximum in July, 1991–2020 average

Source period
1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.

Source and provenance

HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.

Flood warning area covering this postcode

Representative locationMapped area

0

Whether the postcode falls inside an Environment Agency warning area

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is This postcode is not inside an Environment Agency flood warning or alert area. That is not a statement that it cannot flood: these areas cover rivers and the sea, and surface water and groundwater flooding happen largely outside them..

Being inside a flood warning area means the Environment Agency would warn for this area if flooding were expected. It does NOT mean this property floods, and being outside one does not mean it is safe — these areas cover rivers and the sea, while surface water and groundwater flooding happen largely outside them. Long-term flood probability is a separate assessment that is not held here.

Source and provenance

Environment Agency flood monitoring — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-FLOODLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 28 August 2026

this uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)

Overflow operator (water company)

Representative locationMapped place

Thames Water

The company that reported this overflow to the Environment Agency

Source period
2024

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The water and sewerage company responsible for the nearest overflow. It is not necessarily the company that supplies drinking water to this postcode — water supply and sewerage areas do not always coincide.

Source and provenance

Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Average January minimum

Representative locationRegion

1.9 °C

Daily minimum in January, 1991–2020 average

Source period
1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.

Source and provenance

HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.

Reservoir failure extent — wet-day scenario

Representative locationMapped area

If a large raised reservoir failed on a wet day, when rivers are already high, this postcode centroid is outside the published mapped extents in this dataset.

Where released water could spread if a large raised reservoir failed while rivers were already high

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A credible worst-case emergency-planning scenario, not the probability of flooding or reservoir failure. The map shows extent only, not depth, velocity or arrival time. It omits smaller reservoirs and reservoirs commissioned after October 2016. The test uses the postcode centroid, so a postcode crossing an extent boundary can contain properties on either side.

Source and provenance

Reservoir flood extents — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-RESERVOIR · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Storm overflows

Representative locationWithin 5 km

10

Monitored outfalls on the sewer network nearby

Source period
2024

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is 9 of them returned no monitoring data.

Counts monitored storm overflows, not overflows. Unmonitored overflows exist and are not in this dataset, and where an overflow's monitor returned no data for the year that is stated rather than counted as zero spills. Overflows are concentrated where the sewer network is, so a rural postcode with few is not necessarily better served.

Source and provenance

Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Days of air frost

Representative locationRegion

43 days

Nights the air temperature fell below zero, 1991–2020 average

Source period
1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

AIR frost — nights when the air temperature at screen height fell below zero. It is not ground frost, which is measured at the grass surface and happens on many more nights, and it is not a guide to whether pipes will freeze at one address. A 1991–2020 average across a whole climate district, from an interpolated grid; altitude changes this figure sharply over short distances.

Source and provenance

HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.

Reservoir failure extent — dry-day scenario

Representative locationMapped area

If a large raised reservoir failed on a dry day, with rivers at normal levels, this postcode centroid is outside the published mapped extents in this dataset.

Where released water could spread if a large raised reservoir failed while rivers were at normal levels

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A credible worst-case emergency-planning scenario, not the probability of flooding or reservoir failure. The map shows extent only, not depth, velocity or arrival time. It omits smaller reservoirs and reservoirs commissioned after October 2016. The test uses the postcode centroid, so a postcode crossing an extent boundary can contain properties on either side.

Source and provenance

Reservoir flood extents — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-RESERVOIR · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Days with rain

Representative locationRegion

123.5 days

Days a year with at least 1 mm of rain, 1991–2020 average

Source period
1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Days on which at least 1 mm of rain fell — a measure of how OFTEN it rains, which is a different thing from how much falls. A 1991–2020 average across a whole climate district, from a grid interpolated between weather stations rather than measured at this postcode.

Source and provenance

HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.

Coal Mining Reporting Area intersection

Representative locationMapped area

Not within the Coal Mining Reporting Area

Whether this postcode sits in the area where a coal mining report is recommended

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

THIS IS NOT A COAL MINING REPORT. It says only whether the postcode's centre point falls inside the area where the Mining Remediation Authority recommends buyers obtain one — a consultation boundary covering whole districts, not a finding about any property. The official CON29M report is the only thing that answers the property question, and a conveyancer will order it where it is needed. Recorded workings only: the Authority states that before 1872 there was no requirement to deposit abandonment plans, so unrecorded workings exist and "outside the area" is not a guarantee about the ground.

Source and provenance

Coal mining information / map services — Mining Remediation Authority

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-COAL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains data supplied by the Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority) © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Nearest water quality monitoring site

Representative locationMapped place

BECKETTS WELL FISH FARM, OTFORD. SETTLEMENT LAKE OVERFLOW — AGRICULTURE - FISH FARMING - NOT WATER COMPANY

The closest Environment Agency sampling point, and what it samples

Source period
2025–2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A place the Environment Agency takes samples, within 15 km. The type matters: a freshwater point samples a river or lake, while a final-effluent point samples what a sewage or industrial works discharges, measured at the pipe before any dilution. Neither is drinking water.

Source and provenance

Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Coal-mining Development High Risk Area intersection

Representative locationMapped area

Not within a coal mining development risk area

The planning classification of the ground here: high risk, low risk, or neither

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A planning classification of an area, formerly called the Development Referral Area. High risk means the Authority records at least one coal mining feature somewhere in that polygon — a mine entry, shallow workings, a hazard, a mine gas site, a fissure or former surface mining — and that new development there must demonstrate it will be safe and stable. It does not mean any of those features lies under this postcode, and this is not a mining report.

Source and provenance

Coal mining information / map services — Mining Remediation Authority

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-COAL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains data supplied by the Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority) © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Distance to nearest water quality monitoring site

Representative locationMapped place

250 m

Straight-line distance to the closest sampling point

Source period
2025–2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is BECKETTS WELL FISH FARM, OTFORD. SETTLEMENT LAKE OVERFLOW.

How far away the nearest sampling point is, not how good the water is. Sampling points are sited for regulatory reasons — often just downstream of a discharge — so a nearby point is not a sign of either good or bad water.

Source and provenance

Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Coalfield consultation area

Representative locationMapped area

Not within a coalfield consultation area

Whether the postcode falls in a mapped coalfield consultation area

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A planning consultation trigger about coal RESOURCE — the only value the publisher uses in this layer is "Minable Coal". It is not about recorded workings, not about ground stability, and not a mining report.

Source and provenance

Coal mining information / map services — Mining Remediation Authority

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-COAL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains data supplied by the Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority) © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Coal mining licence area

Representative locationMapped area

Not within a coal mining licence area

Whether the postcode falls in an area licensed for coal mining, past or present

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A licence is a permission granted over an area — past, current or future — and licence areas are large. It is not a record that coal was worked there, and certainly not that anything was worked beneath a particular property.

Source and provenance

Coal mining information / map services — Mining Remediation Authority

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-COAL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains data supplied by the Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority) © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Bedrock geology

Representative locationMapped area

Grey Chalk Subgroup — Chalk (Cretaceous)

The rock mapped beneath this area, at 1:625,000

Source period
1:625,000 national geology, bedrock v5 (2008)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Mapped at 1:625,000 — a regional overview where one millimetre on the map is 625 metres on the ground. The boundary between two rock types can be hundreds of metres from where it is drawn, so this describes the district and not the ground under a particular building. It is a description of the rock, not an assessment of stability, subsidence or any other hazard.

Source and provenance

BGS OpenGeoscience — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-BGS · Open Government Licence (BGS OpenGeoscience) · imported 24 August 2026

Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026

Superficial geology

Representative locationMapped area

No superficial deposit mapped at 1:625,000

Deposits lying over the bedrock, where any are mapped

Source period
1:625,000 national geology, bedrock v5 (2008)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Superficial deposits are the loose material — clay, sand, gravel, peat, river alluvium — laid over the bedrock since the Ice Age. Much of Britain has none mapped at 1:625,000, and so does anywhere a deposit is too small or too thin to draw at that scale: "none mapped" does not mean bedrock at the surface. Same scale caveat as bedrock geology.

Source and provenance

BGS OpenGeoscience — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-BGS · Open Government Licence (BGS OpenGeoscience) · imported 24 August 2026

Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026

Broad soil landscape type

Representative location1 km area

Chalk

The geological material the soils here have formed over

Source period
2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

One value for a whole square kilometre, describing the material soils form over rather than the soil itself. Conditions in one garden can differ completely. Generalised from BGS's 1:50,000 model, and not a soil survey: it carries no pH, organic carbon or nutrient status.

Source and provenance

Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-SOILPARENT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026

Soil parent material grain size

Representative location1 km area

Argillic

BGS's grain-size class for the material beneath: clay-rich, sandy, gravelly or peat

Source period
2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The publisher's own classification, reported as it stands. Argillaceous means clay-rich, arenaceous sandy, rudaceous gravelly. Clay-rich ground raises the potential for shrink-swell movement, but whether that ever matters depends on foundations, drains, trees and the weather — none of which are in this data. This is not a subsidence assessment.

Source and provenance

Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-SOILPARENT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026

Soil texture class

Representative location1 km area

Chalky Clay To Chalky Loam

The texture range expected over this parent material

Source period
2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A modelled expectation for a 1 km square, not a measurement of any garden. Made ground, imported topsoil and long cultivation can leave a plot bearing no resemblance to the square it sits in.

Source and provenance

Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-SOILPARENT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026

Soil depth class

Representative location1 km area

Deep-Intermediate

How deep soils here typically run before reaching the parent material

Source period
2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A broad class — deep, intermediate or shallow — for a kilometre square. Not a depth to rock at any point, and no substitute for a site investigation.

Source and provenance

Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-SOILPARENT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026

Carbonate content of parent material

Representative location1 km area

High

How much chalk or limestone the underlying material holds

Source period
2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Describes the ground, not the water supply: how hard the water is at a tap depends on where the water company draws it from, which can be many miles away.

Source and provenance

Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Current official drought status

Representative locationRegion

Drought across Kent South London and East Sussex, as at 21 August 2026. Declared for the whole Environment Agency area, not for this postcode.

Declared status for the Environment Agency area, as at the last report

Source period
2026-08-21

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Declared for one of 14 Environment Agency operational areas, each covering several counties — this is the status of the wider area and not of this postcode. The Agency sometimes declares different statuses for different catchments inside one area, in which case both are shown. Reports are published weekly and only during a dry weather event; between events there is no current status, which is not the same as a declaration that conditions are normal. England only.

Source and provenance

Dry weather and drought status reports — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-DROUGHT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dry weather and drought status published by the Environment Agency.

Distance to nearest historic landfill

Representative locationMapped area

300 m

Straight-line distance to the edge of the nearest recorded site

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Tudor Drive.

A historic landfill is a site where the Environment Agency holds a record that waste was tipped, usually decades ago and often before waste licensing began in 1974. This is a record of a former site. It is NOT a statement about contamination, landfill gas, ground stability or any risk to any property, and it is not a substitute for an environmental search when buying a home. Records are knowingly incomplete — much of the pre-1974 content came from a survey of local authority records in the early 1990s — so the absence of a site nearby is not evidence that none existed. Some outlines are circles drawn around a map reference rather than surveyed boundaries.

Source and provenance

Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Shrink-swell clay susceptibility

Representative location5 km area

Significant susceptibility across the 5 km area (about 65 square kilometres) containing this postcode — areas of localised significant rating

How much the clay in this 5 km area is rated to swell and shrink with moisture

Source period
GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

THIS IS AREA CONTEXT, NOT A SURVEY. The rating covers a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres — bigger than most towns — and BGS state on the data itself that it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Shrink-swell is the clay behaviour behind most subsidence claims in Britain, and it changes street by street with the drift geology a 65 square kilometre average cannot see. Whether it matters at a particular house also depends on foundations, drains, nearby trees and the weather, none of which are in this dataset. Only a survey can answer for a property.

Source and provenance

BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

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Current water-supply and drought update

Representative locationCountry

Despite recent rainfall and cooler weather, conditions remain drier than normal, with below average rainfall observed across all regions. For England as a whole, the rainfall total for August to date is 17% of the long term average (LTA). Rivers flows responded to the rainfall, however the majority of sites remain classed as below normal or lower for the time of year. A quarter of river sites, predominantly across southern and eastern areas, are classed as exceptionally low. The seasonal decline of groundwater levels continues, with levels in the chalk generally healthier than levels in the Oolite Limestone aquifers which are exceptionally low in places. Reservoir storage for England has declined 3.4% this week, down to 62.6% on 18 August. This is below average for the time of year. Seven major reservoirs are classed as having exceptionally low storage. There has been no change to Environment Agency area drought status this week, with 71% of England by land now in drought. Water companies continue to face sustained high demand due to the long period of warm weather and reduced rainfall. Affinity Water expanded its temporary use ban (TUB) across its eastern region on 17 August and Wessex Water implemented a company wide TUB on 18 August. Approximately 29 million people now have restrictions on their use of water. The agricultural sector is under increasing pressure, with poor crop yields and reduced grass growth affecting livestock farmers. There are reports of agricultural boreholes drying up and farm reservoirs at critically low levels. Over 1,500 abstraction licence restrictions are currently in place, including mandatory section 57 spray irrigation reductions in East Anglia and a growing number of voluntary restrictions across several catchments. Root crop harvesting is expected to be challenging due to exceptionally hard ground conditions. Environmental impacts are also increasing. Since the start of 2026, 226 drought and dry weather related incidents have been recorded, including: Navigation across reservoir fed canals are increasingly affected by low levels, while river navigation routes remain more resilient. Many canals are open for navigation, but an increasing number of closures and restrictions are being reported. The Environment Agency continues its drought response, including activated incident management arrangements and increased environmental monitoring. The National Drought Group will now meet weekly to coordinate action and monitor risks as drought conditions continue.

The Environment Agency's own summary, verbatim

Source period
2026-08-21

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The Environment Agency's national summary of rainfall, river flows, groundwater and reservoir storage, quoted from the current weekly report. It describes England as a whole, so it is the same text for every English postcode and is context for the area status rather than a local measurement.

Source and provenance

Dry weather and drought status reports — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-DROUGHT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dry weather and drought status published by the Environment Agency.

Historic landfill site name

Representative locationMapped area

Tudor Drive

What the Environment Agency's record calls the nearest site

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The name in the record, which is usually the name of the land or the quarry the tip occupied rather than anything on the ground today. Many of these sites have been built on, landscaped or returned to farmland since.

Source and provenance

Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Landslide susceptibility

Representative location5 km area

Moderate susceptibility across the 5 km area (about 65 square kilometres) containing this postcode — areas of localised significant rating

How prone the ground across this 5 km area is rated to slope instability

Source period
GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Susceptibility is not occurrence: this does not record that any landslide has ever happened here, and a hexagon rated low can still contain a steep unstable slope too small to show at national scale.

Source and provenance

BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

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Environment Agency area

Representative locationRegion

Kent South London and East Sussex

Which of the 14 operational areas covers this postcode

Source period
2026-08-21

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

One of 14 operational areas the Environment Agency uses in England, each covering several counties. It is the geography drought status and water situation reports are published for, and it has no bearing on anything at property level.

Source and provenance

Dry weather and drought status reports — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-DROUGHT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dry weather and drought status published by the Environment Agency.

Historic landfill known waste type

Representative locationMapped area

inert — at Tudor Drive

The categories of waste the record says went into the nearest site

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The categories recorded, where any were recorded at all. Blank means the Environment Agency's record does not say, not that nothing of that kind went in — the dataset carries its own "waste type unknown" flag for exactly that reason and it is shown here when set. The categories are broad regulatory ones and say nothing about quantity, depth or what remains.

Source and provenance

Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Susceptibility to soluble rock and sinkholes

Representative location5 km area

Low susceptibility across the 5 km area (about 65 square kilometres) containing this postcode — areas of localised significant rating

How likely dissolvable rock — chalk, limestone, gypsum, salt — is to underlie this 5 km area

Source period
GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Dissolution features are by nature local: a hexagon rated low can contain a swallow hole, and a hexagon rated significant contains no sinkhole under most of the properties in it.

Source and provenance

BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

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Compressible-ground susceptibility

Representative location5 km area

Low susceptibility across the 5 km area (about 65 square kilometres) containing this postcode — areas of localised significant rating

How likely soft ground that settles under load is to underlie this 5 km area

Source period
GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Compressible deposits — peat, soft alluvium, made ground — follow valley floors and former marshes, so they can be present under one street and absent from the next.

Source and provenance

BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

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Collapsible-deposit susceptibility

Representative location5 km area

Low susceptibility across the 5 km area (about 65 square kilometres) containing this postcode — areas of localised significant rating

How likely deposits that collapse when wetted or loaded are to underlie this 5 km area

Source period
GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Collapsible deposits are uncommon in Britain and are mostly wind-blown silt; a low rating is the usual answer and carries little information about any individual site.

Source and provenance

BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

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Historic landfill sites

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Recorded former tips whose outline falls within a kilometre

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

How many recorded former landfill sites the Environment Agency's register places within a kilometre. A count of records, not of hazards, and not a complete count of sites: undocumented tips, especially small ones closed before the 1970s, are simply absent from the register. Sites are clustered where old quarries and gravel pits were, so a high count often reflects local geology.

Source and provenance

Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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How the nearest historic landfill outline was mapped

Representative locationMapped area

A boundary held in the Environment Agency's records, digitised from its own survey material

Whether the boundary is surveyed or approximated

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Roughly one site in five in this register has no surveyed boundary at all — its outline is a circle drawn around a single map reference. Where that is the case the distance shown above is approximate, and the true edge of the tip could lie in any direction from the point recorded.

Source and provenance

Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Running-sand susceptibility

Representative location5 km area

Moderate susceptibility across the 5 km area (about 65 square kilometres) containing this postcode

How likely water-bearing sand that can flow into excavations is to underlie this 5 km area

Source period
GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Running sand is a problem for excavation and drainage work rather than for a standing building, and whether it is met at all depends on the depth dug and the water table on the day.

Source and provenance

BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

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Elevation above sea level

Representative location50 m area

71 m

Ground height at the postcode centroid, from OS Terrain 50

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

THIS IS NOT A FLOOD MEASURE. Height above sea level says nothing about whether a place floods — that depends on catchment, drainage, tide and defences. It is the bare ground at the postcode centroid from Ordnance Survey's open 50 m terrain model, which OS verify at 4 m RMSE and which contains no buildings. The centroid is the mean of the postcode's addresses and in a rural postcode can sit in a field.

Source and provenance

OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

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Nearby permitted waste operations

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Permitted waste sites within 1 km

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is No permitted waste operation is registered within 1 km. A permit records that the Environment Agency has authorised a regulated activity at a place; it is not a measurement of pollution..

A permit records that the Environment Agency has AUTHORISED a waste activity at a site, under conditions it sets and enforces. It is not a measurement of pollution, not an incident, and says nothing about how the site behaves. Counts entries within 1 km of the postcode centroid, excluding expired registrations. England only.

Source and provenance

Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Projected change in summer temperature

Representative location12 km area

2.26 °C change

How much warmer summers here are projected to be at 2 °C of global warming, against 1981-2000

Source period
UKCP18 RCP8.5 regional projections at 1.5-4 °C global warming levels, against a 1981-2000 baseline

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Projection, not a forecast. Summer averaged 15.7 °C here in 1981-2000. At 2 °C of global warming the models project +1.8 to +2.9 °C on that (mid estimate +2.3); at 4 °C of global warming, +4.0 to +5.2 °C. Assumes a high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5)..

A PROJECTION, NOT A FORECAST. This is what climate models simulate under an assumed high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5), at a stated level of global warming rather than in a stated year — the Met Office index it that way because the year each warming level is reached differs between model runs. Nobody knows which pathway the world will follow, and the Met Office note that RCP8.5 sits considerably above current policy. The figure is a range because the models themselves disagree; the range is the message, not a margin of error on a prediction. It describes a 144 square kilometre model grid cell relative to the 1981-2000 model baseline, not a temperature anyone will measure at this address.

Source and provenance

UK Climate Projections (UKCP18), 12 km regional strand — Met Office / CEDA

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Local elevation range

Representative locationWithin 500 m

46 m

Highest ground minus lowest ground within 500 m

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The spread of ground heights within 500 m, from a 50 m model with 4 m vertical accuracy. A large range means broken or hilly ground somewhere in that circle, not that the postcode itself is on a slope.

Source and provenance

OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

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Nearby industrial installations

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Permitted installations within 1 km

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is No permitted industrial installation is registered within 1 km. A permit records that the Environment Agency has authorised a regulated activity at a place; it is not a measurement of pollution..

Installations permitted under the Environmental Permitting Regulations within 1 km. The register includes a great many small standby generators and medium combustion plants in office and hospital basements alongside heavy industry, so a count says how much regulated plant is nearby, not how industrial the area feels. A permit is an authorisation, not evidence of emissions.

Source and provenance

Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-REGISTER · Environment Agency Conditional Licence · imported 24 August 2026

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Projected very hot days per year

Representative location12 km area

6.7 days per year

Days a year above 30 °C projected here at 2 °C of global warming, against 1981-2000

Source period
UKCP18 RCP8.5 regional projections at 1.5-4 °C global warming levels, against a 1981-2000 baseline

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Projection, not a forecast. Days above 30 °C averaged 0.8 a year here in 1981-2000. At 2 °C of global warming the models project 3.5 to 9.0 days a year (mid estimate 6.7); at 4 °C of global warming, 17.0 to 31.1. Assumes a high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5)..

A PROJECTION, NOT A FORECAST, under an assumed high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5) at a stated level of global warming rather than in a stated year. It counts how often a maximum of 30 °C is exceeded, not by how much, and the Met Office describe the result as "an approximation … as there will be many factors such as natural variability and local scale processes that the climate model is unable to represent". The name is only a label for the threshold: days above 30 °C outside the summer months count too. It describes a 144 square kilometre model grid cell, and the range shown is the disagreement between model runs.

Source and provenance

UK Climate Projections (UKCP18), 12 km regional strand — Met Office / CEDA

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearby radioactive-substances permits

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Permits to keep or use radioactive material within 1 km

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is No radioactive substances permit is registered within 1 km. A permit records that the Environment Agency has authorised a regulated activity at a place; it is not a measurement of pollution..

These permits overwhelmingly cover hospitals, universities, laboratories and industrial measuring gauges. A permit authorises holding or using a regulated material safely under conditions — it is not a release, not a leak and not a hazard, and treating a count as a risk signal would be plainly wrong.

Source and provenance

Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-REGISTER · Environment Agency Conditional Licence · imported 24 August 2026

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Projected change in winter rainfall

Representative location12 km area

8.97 % change

How much wetter or drier winters here are projected to be at 2 °C of global warming

Source period
UKCP18 RCP8.5 regional projections at 1.5-4 °C global warming levels, against a 1981-2000 baseline

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Projection, not a forecast. Winter rainfall averaged 2.14 mm a day here in 1981-2000. At 2 °C of global warming the models project -5.9% to +16.9% on that (mid estimate +9.0%); at 4 °C of global warming, +8.5% to +21.8%. A seasonal average: it says nothing about individual storms. Assumes a high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5)..

A PROJECTION, NOT A FORECAST, under an assumed high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5) at a stated level of global warming rather than in a stated year. It is a change in the SEASONAL AVERAGE of daily rainfall, and the Met Office state that values averaged over a season "do not represent possible extreme conditions" — so it says nothing about storms, downpours or flooding, and must not be read as a flood risk. The range spans the disagreement between model runs and can include both drier and wetter outcomes at the same warming level. It describes a 144 square kilometre model grid cell against the 1981-2000 model baseline.

Source and provenance

UK Climate Projections (UKCP18), 12 km regional strand — Met Office / CEDA

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Contains Met Office data © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Derived from UKCP18 regional (12 km) climate projections.

Terrain slope

Representative location100 m area

1.6°

Gradient of the ground over a 100 m window around the postcode

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Calculated here rather than published: a plane fitted to the terrain-model heights within 100 m of the postcode. It describes the hillside, not a garden or a driveway — features that small are below the resolution of a 50 m model.

Source and provenance

OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

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Nearby discharge consents and permits

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Permitted discharges to water or ground within 1 km

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Within 1 km: Sewage - Secondary Treated Sewage Effluent. A permit records that the Environment Agency has AUTHORISED this activity under conditions — it is not evidence of pollution and says nothing about how the site behaves..

Most entries are small private sewage treatment plants serving individual properties that are not on the mains, rather than industrial outfalls. A permit sets the conditions a discharge must meet; it is not a measurement of what is discharged and not evidence that any limit has been exceeded. The catalogued register name "Discharge Consents" does not exist as an endpoint — the working register is water-discharges.

Source and provenance

Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-REGISTER · Environment Agency Conditional Licence · imported 24 August 2026

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Terrain aspect

Representative location100 m area

South-facing

Compass direction the surrounding ground faces downhill

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The direction the ground falls away over the same 100 m window as the slope figure. One of eight compass points, because a 50 m model cannot support a bearing in degrees. It describes the landform, not which way a particular house faces.

Source and provenance

OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

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Relative elevation versus surrounding neighbourhood

Representative locationWithin 1 km

-10 m

Height at the postcode against the average of the kilometre around it

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Positive means the postcode sits above the average ground of the surrounding kilometre. A landform comparison only: it is not a statement about drainage, exposure or flooding, and it changes with the size of the circle chosen.

Source and provenance

OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

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Nearest permitted site

Representative locationMapped place

500 m

Distance to the closest entry on any Environment Agency register

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Sewage - Secondary Treated Sewage Effluent. An authorised activity, not a pollution finding..

The closest site within 5 km holding a current Environment Agency permit, registration or exemption of any kind. A permit means an activity is authorised and regulated there — it is not a pollution finding, and the great majority of these sites are ordinary businesses, farms and buildings complying with the law.

Source and provenance

Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Ground height compared with the surrounding area

Representative locationWithin 1 km

Lower than the surrounding kilometre

Whether the postcode sits above or below its surroundings

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Anything within ten metres of the surrounding average is called level, because a single height post carries about 4 m of error and a smaller gap would be reading the model's noise. Says nothing about flood risk.

Source and provenance

OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Permitted sites

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Current register entries of every kind within 1 km

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Across 1 Environment Agency registers. Every entry is an activity the Agency has authorised under conditions; none of it is a record of pollution..

Counts every current entry across the Environment Agency registers held here — installations, waste operations, water discharges, radioactive substances, scrap metal, end-of-life vehicles, flood risk activities and waste exemptions. Waste exemptions in particular are small-scale low-risk activities registered in very large numbers, especially on farms, so a high count in a rural area reflects farming rather than industry. Every entry is an authorised activity, not pollution.

Source and provenance

Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Distance to mapped erosion frontage

Representative locationMapped area

18.0 km

How far this postcode is from the nearest stretch of coast mapped for erosion

Source period
2024

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is 18.0 km to the nearest mapped coastal erosion risk zone on the River Medway and Swale Estuary shoreline management plan. NCERM maps the coast of England only, so near the Welsh or Scottish border there may be eroding coast closer than this..

A distance to the nearest mapped zone, not a distance to the sea and not a measure of safety: a postcode 500 m from a frontage with a delivered Hold The Line plan is in a very different position from one 500 m from an unmanaged cliff, and the exposure metric beside this one is what says which. The Environment Agency states that this data is "intended for guidance only - it cannot provide details for individual properties", and that it "shows areas of land likely to be at erosion risk but does not show the precise future position of the shoreline". Erosion may happen faster or slower than shown, and the risk may change over time. Every distance is a CUMULATIVE total by the year given, not a yearly rate. Every figure also depends on two choices: which management scenario is assumed — "with the shoreline management plan delivered" assumes the funded plan for this stretch of coast is actually carried out, "no future intervention" assumes nothing is maintained — and which sea level allowance, the present-day baseline or the UKCP18 RCP8.5 70th or 95th percentile. The Environment Agency issues no erosion projection at all where the plan is to hold the line for the full period to 2105, so on a defended frontage the plan-delivered figure is an absence of a projection rather than a projection of nothing — and where a plan-delivered figure of zero IS shown, it means the defence is assumed to hold, not that the coast is stable. The mapped zone also runs from the Mean High Water Springs line to the backshore feature before it runs landward, so part of it is shore rather than land expected to be lost. NCERM maps the coast of England only, so near the Welsh or Scottish border there may be eroding coast closer than anything shown here. Coastal flooding is a separate matter with a separate map, and the Environment Agency states that erosion of foreshore features is generally not included.

Source and provenance

National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping (NCERM) — National (2024) — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Modelled topsoil geochemistry by element

Representative location500 m area
Arsenic
11.2 mg/kg
Cadmium
0.34 mg/kg
Chromium
72.1 mg/kg
Copper
19.8 mg/kg
Nickel
27.4 mg/kg
Lead
61.9 mg/kg
Selenium
0.78 mg/kg
Zinc
82.0 mg/kg

Modelled concentrations of eight trace elements in the topsoil of this 500 m square

Source period
Topsoil samples 1978-2014, modelled surface published 2024

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A MODELLED ESTIMATE FOR A 500 METRE SQUARE, NOT A SOIL TEST. Predicted by kriging from 57,966 topsoil samples collected between 1978 and 2014, using the nearest five to eight samples within 10 km — so the nearest real sample can be kilometres away and up to 48 years old, and nothing was dug up here. These are total concentrations by X-ray fluorescence, not the fraction a plant or a child could absorb. They are contextual chemistry and NOT a contamination assessment: they are not compared with any screening or assessment criterion, and no value here can say a garden is safe or unsafe. Much of the variation is natural geology rather than pollution. Most of Scotland was never surveyed and shows as not sampled.

Source and provenance

UK topsoil geochemistry raster (UKTS) — British Geological Survey / partners

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Modelled topsoil element concentration

Representative location500 m area

61.86 mg/kg

Modelled total lead in the topsoil of this 500 m square, in mg/kg

Source period
Topsoil samples 1978-2014, modelled surface published 2024

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Modelled total lead, 61.9 mg/kg, for the 500 m square containing this postcode.

A MODELLED ESTIMATE OF TOTAL LEAD FOR A 500 METRE SQUARE, NOT A SOIL TEST. Lead is shown because it has the clearest health literature for garden and allotment soil; the other seven elements are on the topsoil geochemistry profile. Predicted by kriging from samples collected between 1978 and 2014, so the nearest real measurement can be kilometres away and decades old, and roadside, industrial and demolition legacies at a particular address are invisible at this scale. Total lead by XRF, not the bioaccessible fraction. This figure is NOT compared to any screening value and cannot say whether soil here is safe: only a test of the actual ground can. Most of Scotland was never surveyed and shows as not sampled.

Source and provenance

UK topsoil geochemistry raster (UKTS) — British Geological Survey / partners

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Distance to nearest mapped airport noise contour

Representative locationMapped area

20.7 km

How far this postcode is from the nearest mapped airport noise contour

Source period
2021 traffic (Environmental Noise Regulations Round 4)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is 20.7 km to the nearest mapped airport noise contour, around London City Airport. Only the fifteen English airports above 50,000 aircraft movements a year are mapped, so a smaller airport or airfield may be closer than this..

Read the word "mapped". This is the distance to the nearest contour Defra publish, not to the nearest airport: eleven of England's airports, and every airport in Scotland and Wales, are below the threshold that requires mapping and appear nowhere in this measurement. A large distance therefore means no MAPPED contour is nearby, which is not the same as no aircraft noise. Distances are measured to a 50 m cell, so they are accurate to a few tens of metres rather than exactly. Strategic noise mapping is a MODEL of annual-average aircraft noise for 2021 air traffic, run on a 10 m grid at 4 m above the ground. Nobody took a measurement, and nothing here reflects traffic since 2021. Only the fifteen English airports with 50,000 or more aircraft movements a year are mapped, because that is what the Environmental Noise Regulations require — so the absence of a contour is a statement about the law, not about the sky. Scotland maps aircraft noise only summed together with road, rail and industry, and Wales has no airport large enough to require mapping at all. The dB bands shown are our own grouping of Defra's continuous values. The level is taken as the loudest modelled value within 50 m of the centre of the postcode, which is an average of its addresses rather than any one building. Single flights, flight paths and how many aircraft pass overhead are not in this dataset at any level.

Source and provenance

Airport noise, all metrics, England, Round 4 — Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest recorded landslide

Representative locationMapped place

0.3 km

How far away the nearest landslide in the national record is

Source period
2026

Reading at the active settlement postcode nearest the point-on-surface of the official boundary, with postcode tie-break. This is not a Town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the settlement. Distance searches indicative survey points within 25 km; the count uses a 1 km radius and is not a count of unique landslide events. Records with positional uncertainty above 1 km are excluded; uncertainty affects proximity. The register is incomplete and unevenly reported. No eligible record is not evidence of stable ground or absence of hazard. Not a property hazard, susceptibility or insurance assessment. Seek professional advice before technical interpretation. Automated number checks are applied; the metric-specific numeric rules have not yet been reviewed.

Straight-line distance from the postcode centroid to an indicative recorded survey point, not to a landslide boundary or its nearest edge. Points do not describe landslide size or extent. The record's positional uncertainty is stated with the result; records located to worse than 1 km are excluded, and the search extends to 25 km. Several surveys can describe the same landslide. The register is incomplete and unevenly reported: no nearby eligible record is not evidence that the ground is stable. This is not a property hazard or susceptibility assessment. Not for insurance purposes. Obtain professional advice before technical interpretation; this information does not replace detailed ground investigation.

Source and provenance

National Landslide Database / GeoIndex index — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Recorded landslides

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

How many landslides in the national record are within a kilometre

Source period
2026

Reading at the active settlement postcode nearest the point-on-surface of the official boundary, with postcode tie-break. This is not a Town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the settlement. Distance searches indicative survey points within 25 km; the count uses a 1 km radius and is not a count of unique landslide events. Records with positional uncertainty above 1 km are excluded; uncertainty affects proximity. The register is incomplete and unevenly reported. No eligible record is not evidence of stable ground or absence of hazard. Not a property hazard, susceptibility or insurance assessment. Seek professional advice before technical interpretation. Automated number checks are applied; the metric-specific numeric rules have not yet been reviewed.

Count of eligible recorded survey points within 1 km of the postcode centroid, not a count of unique landslide events. Several surveys can describe the same landslide. Points are indicative locations, not landslide boundaries or extents. Locations are uncertain; records located to worse than 1 km are excluded, and uncertainty can affect whether a point falls within the radius. The register is incomplete and unevenly reported, so clusters can reflect survey effort. Zero means no eligible record within the radius, not that the ground is stable. This is not a property hazard or susceptibility assessment. Not for insurance purposes. Obtain professional advice before technical interpretation; this information does not replace detailed ground investigation.

Source and provenance

National Landslide Database / GeoIndex index — British Geological Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nature & green space

Parks, woodland, protected habitats and access to nature.

33figures

Nearest public park

Representative locationMapped place

200 m

The closest site mapped as a public park or garden

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Palace Field.

Straight-line distance to the park's nearest mapped entrance, not walking distance. Cemeteries, religious grounds and golf courses are not counted as parks. Woodland, commons, beaches and other informal green space are not in this dataset at all, so this is not a measure of how green the area is.

Source and provenance

OS Open Greenspace — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Distance to nearest public park

Representative locationMapped place

200 m

Straight-line distance to its nearest mapped entrance

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Measured to the park's nearest mapped pedestrian entrance rather than to the edge of the site, because a boundary you cannot cross is not access. Straight-line, not walking distance.

Source and provenance

OS Open Greenspace — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Public greenspace count

Representative locationWithin 1 km

11

Mapped greenspace sites reaching within 1 km

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts every mapped greenspace function: parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields, allotments, cemeteries, religious grounds, bowling greens, tennis courts, golf courses and other outdoor sports facilities. Not all of these are places to walk in. Woodland, commons and farmland are not counted because Ordnance Survey do not map them in this product.

Source and provenance

OS Open Greenspace — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Public greenspace area

Representative locationWithin 1 km

12.9 ha

Hectares of mapped greenspace inside the 1 km circle

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Each site is clipped to the 1 km circle, so a large park on the edge of the radius contributes only the part that is genuinely nearby. Covers mapped public greenspace only — not woodland, farmland, commons or private gardens.

Source and provenance

OS Open Greenspace — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest play space

Representative locationMapped place

400 m

The closest mapped children's play area

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Unnamed play space.

Ordnance Survey record that a play space exists and where you get into it. They record nothing about its equipment, age range, condition or whether it is currently open.

Source and provenance

OS Open Greenspace — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest playing field

Representative locationMapped place

250 m

The closest mapped playing field

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Sevenoaks Vine Cricket Club.

A mapped playing field may belong to a school or a club and need not be open to the public. Straight-line distance to its nearest mapped entrance.

Source and provenance

OS Open Greenspace — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest sports facility

Representative locationMapped place

450 m

Outdoor sites mapped by Ordnance Survey: sports facilities, bowling greens, tennis courts and golf courses

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Tennis Court.

Outdoor, Ordnance-Survey-mapped sites only — gyms, pools and other indoor facilities are not in this dataset. Many are private or members-only, and the data says nothing about who may use them. Most tennis courts sit inside a larger park and have no entrance of their own, so their distance is measured to the edge of the court rather than to a gate.

Source and provenance

OS Open Greenspace — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest allotment

Representative locationMapped place

500 m

The closest allotments or community growing space

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Unnamed allotments.

Where the allotments are, not whether a plot is available — waiting lists are held by councils and associations and are not in this data.

Source and provenance

OS Open Greenspace — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest greenspace access point

Representative locationMapped place

100 m

The closest mapped way in to any greenspace site

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is St Bartholomew's Church.

A mapped gate or entrance, which is the honest measure of access: a site boundary can run along your fence while its only entrance is a mile away. Motor-vehicle-only gates are excluded. Not every site has a mapped entrance.

Source and provenance

OS Open Greenspace — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Designations covering this postcode

Representative locationMapped area

National Landscape: Kent Downs

Every legal designation whose boundary contains the postcode centroid

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Being inside a designation is what carries consequences for land — consent requirements, restricted permitted development, notification duties. Being near one generally carries none, which is why this is a separate measure from the distance ones. Tested against the postcode centroid, so it is a guide to the area and not a determination for any individual property. Designations overlap, so several entries here often describe the same ground.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest Site of Special Scientific Interest

Representative locationMapped area

650 m

Straight-line distance to the boundary of the closest SSSI

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford to Shoreham Downs SSSI.

Distance to the site boundary, not to anywhere you can go: an SSSI is a conservation designation over the land itself and is frequently private, with no public access. Being near one places no restriction on a property; being inside one can.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Inside a Site of Special Scientific Interest

Representative locationMapped area

Not inside a Site of Special Scientific Interest

Whether the postcode centroid falls within an SSSI boundary

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Tested against the postcode centroid. A postcode covers an area, so one straddling a boundary may be reported either side, and this is never a substitute for checking a specific property on the Natural England designated sites map. Land inside an SSSI is subject to consent requirements for certain operations.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest National Nature Reserve

Representative locationMapped area

8.9 km

Straight-line distance to the closest reserve boundary

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is NORTH KENT WOODS AND DOWNS.

National Nature Reserves are managed for nature first. Many welcome visitors, but access is a decision for the manager and is not implied by the designation.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest Local Nature Reserve

Representative locationMapped area

4.9 km

Straight-line distance to the closest reserve boundary

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is DRYHILL.

Declared by local authorities, so coverage reflects which councils have chosen to declare reserves as much as where the wildlife is.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest ancient woodland

Representative locationMapped area

5.6 km

Straight-line distance to the closest mapped parcel within 10 km

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Rushmore Hill Wood.

The Ancient Woodland Inventory is indicative mapping of woodland believed continuously wooded since 1600. It is not a designation in itself, though it is a material consideration in planning, and boundaries are approximate. Most ancient woodland is privately owned.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest Special Area of Conservation

Representative locationMapped area

15 km

Straight-line distance to the closest SAC boundary

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is North Downs Woodlands.

SACs protect habitats and species listed in the Habitats Regulations. They overlap SSSIs almost everywhere, so this is usually the same ground under a second designation rather than a second place.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest Special Protection Area

Representative locationMapped area

21 km

Straight-line distance to the closest SPA boundary

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Thames Estuary & Marshes.

SPAs are classified for wild birds. Like SACs they usually sit on top of an existing SSSI, so designations must never be counted as separate areas.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest internationally protected wetland (Ramsar site)

Representative locationMapped area

20 km

Straight-line distance to the closest wetland of international importance

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Thames Estuary & Marshes.

Ramsar sites are wetlands listed under an international convention. England's are published as multi-part boundaries, so a single site can appear as several separate pieces of ground.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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National Park

Representative locationMapped area

Not in a National Park. Nearest is SOUTH DOWNS National Park, about 45.6 km away

Whether this postcode is inside one, and the nearest if not

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Inside a National Park the authority is the planning authority and permitted development rights are more restricted. Outside one, proximity carries no such effect — the two answers are different in kind, not degree.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest National Landscape (formerly Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty)

Representative locationMapped area

Inside Kent Downs National Landscape

Whether this postcode is inside one, and the nearest if not

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty were renamed National Landscapes in 2023; the legal designation is unchanged. Being inside one restricts some permitted development rights. Being near one does not.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest priority habitat

Representative locationMapped area

200 m

Closest mapped parcel within 10 km

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Deciduous woodland.

The Priority Habitats Inventory maps habitat types of principal importance. It is a best-available compilation from many surveys of different ages, not a designation, and its boundaries are indicative.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest priority habitat: type

Representative locationMapped area

Deciduous woodland

The main habitat recorded for the closest parcel

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The habitat recorded by the survey behind that parcel, which may be several years old. Habitats change, and a parcel can hold more than one.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Priority habitat

Representative locationWithin 1 km

50.2 ha

Mapped habitat area, clipped to the radius

Source period
2026-08-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Hectares of mapped priority habitat inside a 1 km circle. Habitat parcels overlap designated sites, so this figure must not be added to any designated area. It says nothing about whether the land can be reached.

Source and provenance

Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest mapped woodland

Representative locationMapped place

200 m

The closest wood of half a hectare or more, and its type

Source period
2024 (imagery to summer 2024)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Broadleaved, 0.9 ha.

Straight-line distance to the edge of the wood, not a walking distance and not a right of way — most woodland in Britain is private. The type is interpreted from satellite and aerial imagery rather than from anyone standing in the wood.

Source and provenance

National Forest Inventory / Forestry Commission open data — Forestry Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-NFI · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right 2025 Ordnance Survey [AC0000814847]

Distance to nearest woodland

Representative locationMapped place

200 m

Straight-line distance to the nearest mapped woodland

Source period
2024 (imagery to summer 2024)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Measured from the postcode's centre point to the woodland edge. The inventory maps woods of 0.5 hectare and larger only, so a copse, a line of street trees or a wooded garden closer than this figure is simply not in the data. Searched to 10 km.

Source and provenance

National Forest Inventory / Forestry Commission open data — Forestry Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-NFI · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right 2025 Ordnance Survey [AC0000814847]

Woodland area

Representative locationWithin 500 m

3.6 ha

Hectares of mapped woodland inside a 500 m circle

Source period
2024 (imagery to summer 2024)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Each wood is clipped to the circle, so one on the edge contributes only the part that is genuinely nearby. Counts mapped woodland of 0.5 hectare and above: street trees, garden trees, hedgerows and small copses are excluded by the inventory's definition, so zero here means no mapped woodland and not no trees.

Source and provenance

National Forest Inventory / Forestry Commission open data — Forestry Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-NFI · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right 2025 Ordnance Survey [AC0000814847]

Woodland area

Representative locationWithin 1 km

48.4 ha

Hectares of mapped woodland inside a 1 km circle

Source period
2024 (imagery to summer 2024)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Clipped to the circle. Mapped woodland of 0.5 hectare and above only — a low figure is not an absence of trees, and this says nothing about whether any of it can be walked in.

Source and provenance

National Forest Inventory / Forestry Commission open data — Forestry Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-NFI · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right 2025 Ordnance Survey [AC0000814847]

Woodland area

Representative locationWithin 5 km

1,619.9 ha

Hectares of mapped woodland inside a 5 km circle

Source period
2024 (imagery to summer 2024)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A 5 km circle covers nearly 8,000 hectares, most of it well beyond walking distance, so this describes the wider landscape rather than the neighbourhood. Each wood is clipped to the circle.

Source and provenance

National Forest Inventory / Forestry Commission open data — Forestry Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-NFI · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right 2025 Ordnance Survey [AC0000814847]

Woodland type

Representative locationWithin 1 km

Broadleaved (38.0 ha within 1 km)

The interpreted forest type covering most ground within 1 km

Source period
2024 (imagery to summer 2024)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The type covering the largest area within 1 km, weighted by area rather than counted by parcel. Types are interpreted from imagery, not surveyed on the ground — "Assumed woodland" says so in its name. "Felled" and "Ground prep" are phases of managed woodland that remains in the inventory and is usually replanted; they are not deforestation.

Source and provenance

National Forest Inventory / Forestry Commission open data — Forestry Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

ENV-NFI · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right 2025 Ordnance Survey [AC0000814847]

Nearest classified river or water body

Representative locationMapped place

500 m

Distance to the closest river, lake or coastal water assessed under the Water Framework Directive

Source period
Cycle 3 — ecological 2022, chemical 2019

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Middle and Lower Darent (river).

Measured to the watercourse or water body itself, not to a centroid. Only water bodies large enough to be classified under the Water Framework Directive appear: smaller streams, brooks and ponds are not assessed and are absent, so a long distance means no CLASSIFIED water nearby rather than no water nearby.

Source and provenance

Catchment Data Explorer water-body classification — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Ecological status

Representative locationCatchment

Good — Middle and Lower Darent (2022 assessment)

How the Environment Agency classify the river water body this postcode drains into

Source period
Cycle 3 — ecological 2022, chemical 2019

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A Water Framework Directive classification of the RIVER — plants, invertebrates, fish, flow and physical condition. It is not drinking water, which is abstracted, treated and regulated separately. The year shown is the round in which this water body was last actually assessed, which is not the same year as its chemical status. Groundwater bodies are not assessed ecologically at all.

Source and provenance

Catchment Data Explorer water-body classification — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Chemical status

Representative locationCatchment

Fail — Middle and Lower Darent (2019 assessment; 100% of assessed English surface water bodies are classified the same)

The Environment Agency chemical classification of that water body, with how common the same verdict is

Source period
Cycle 3 — ecological 2022, chemical 2019

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Read this one carefully. Cycle 3 assesses chemical status against ubiquitous, persistent substances — chiefly mercury and PBDEs — which are present in effectively every water body in England from historic and atmospheric sources. As a result almost all of them classify as Fail. That is a consequence of the assessment method, not a finding about this particular river, which is why the share of English water bodies with the same verdict is stated alongside it. The year shown is the last round in which chemical status was actually assessed — the 2022 update revised ecological status only — so it is older than the ecological figure above it. It says nothing about drinking water.

Source and provenance

Catchment Data Explorer water-body classification — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-CDE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

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Number of reasons the water body is below good status

Representative locationCatchment

2 reasons

How many pressures the Environment Agency record on that water body, and which sectors

Source period
Cycle 3 — ecological 2022, chemical 2019

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Water Industry — Middle and Lower Darent.

Each entry is an Environment Agency assessment of a pressure on the water body, carrying its own certainty — "Probable", "Suspected", "Confirmed" — so this is a count of assessed pressures, not of proven causes. Many entries carry "no sector responsible", which is a published verdict rather than a gap; those are counted but not named. Zero is a genuine answer meaning the water body is not failing.

Source and provenance

Catchment Data Explorer water-body classification — Environment Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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13

Planning, buildings & heritage

Planning applications, special planning rules and protected historic places nearby.

13figures

Conservation area

Representative locationMapped place

No

Whether this postcode falls inside a designated conservation area

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Tested against the postcode centroid, so a postcode straddling a boundary can differ from an individual address — the council's own map is authoritative. Conservation areas reach the national platform only from councils that publish them, so where a council does not, this reports incomplete coverage rather than "no". Being inside one restricts permitted development rights.

Source and provenance

Planning Data platform — MHCLG

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Green Belt

Representative locationMapped place

No

Whether this postcode falls inside designated Green Belt

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Green Belt is compiled nationally, so a negative answer here is a real one. The designation constrains development on the land, which is not the same as a guarantee that the land stays open — boundaries are reviewed through local plans.

Source and provenance

Planning Data platform — MHCLG

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest listed building

Representative locationMapped place

100 m

Straight-line distance to the closest statutorily listed building

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Straight-line distance, not walking distance. A listed building nearby places no restriction on your own property — listing protects the listed building itself, and work affecting its setting is a matter for the council. Statutory listing is a national register and is effectively complete; buildings on a council's local list are not included.

Source and provenance

Planning Data platform — MHCLG

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Listed buildings

Representative locationWithin 500 m

26

Statutorily listed buildings close to this postcode

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A high count usually means a historic centre rather than a constraint on any one property. Each listing protects that building; none of them restricts a neighbour.

Source and provenance

Planning Data platform — MHCLG

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

PLAN-DATA · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

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Scheduled monument

Representative locationMapped area

Not inside a scheduled monument

Whether this postcode falls inside a scheduled monument

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Works to a scheduled monument need scheduled monument consent, and doing them without it is a criminal offence. The mapped outline indicates the location of the designation; its legal extent is the National Heritage List entry, not this map, and many outlines were digitised at 1:10,000 where an edge can be tens of metres out. England only — Cadw and Historic Environment Scotland keep the Welsh and Scottish registers.

Source and provenance

National Heritage List spatial data — Historic England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest scheduled monument

Representative locationMapped place

50 m

Straight-line distance to the closest scheduled monument within 10 km

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Palace.

Distance to the edge of the nearest monument, not a constraint on this postcode: being near a scheduled monument imposes nothing on a neighbouring owner. Straight-line, not walking distance, and many monuments are on private land with no public access. Searched to 10 km.

Source and provenance

National Heritage List spatial data — Historic England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Registered park/garden

Representative locationMapped area

Not inside a registered park or garden

Whether this postcode falls inside a registered park or garden

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Registration is a material consideration in planning decisions affecting the land; it does not by itself prevent development, and it gives no right of access — many registered parks are private. Grades I, II* and II mark relative interest, not the strength of protection. Location is indicative; the legal extent is the list entry. England only.

Source and provenance

National Heritage List spatial data — Historic England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest registered park/garden

Representative locationMapped place

4.1 km

Straight-line distance to the closest registered park or garden within 10 km

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is KNOLE.

A register of historic designed landscapes, not a list of places to visit: most are privately owned and closed to the public. Straight-line distance to the boundary, searched to 10 km.

Source and provenance

National Heritage List spatial data — Historic England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Registered battlefield

Representative locationMapped area

Not inside a registered battlefield

Whether this postcode falls inside a registered battlefield

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Forty-seven battlefields are registered in England. Registration makes the historic interest of the site a consideration in planning decisions; it does not restrict ordinary use of the land. The boundary is Historic England's assessment of where the action took place and is inevitably approximate.

Source and provenance

National Heritage List spatial data — Historic England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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World Heritage Site

Representative locationMapped area

Not inside a World Heritage Site

Whether this postcode falls inside a World Heritage Site

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Inscription is international recognition given effect through the planning system: the site and its setting are a material consideration, and local policy usually goes further. It is not itself a prohibition. Buffer zones around inscribed areas are not included in this outline. England only.

Source and provenance

National Heritage List spatial data — Historic England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest World Heritage Site

Representative locationMapped place

21 km

Straight-line distance to the closest World Heritage Site within 50 km

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Maritime Greenwich.

Twenty-eight sites are inscribed in England, so this is searched to 50 km and most postcodes will still have none. Being near one places no obligation on a property; the planning weight applies inside the site and its setting.

Source and provenance

National Heritage List spatial data — Historic England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Heritage at risk entries

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Designated assets on the 2024 Heritage at Risk Register nearby

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Historic England's 2024 register of designated assets judged at risk from neglect, decay or inappropriate change. It is an annual assessment of condition, not a designation, and it is not a survey of the area's buildings: only already-designated assets can appear, and grade II listed buildings outside London are assessed by sample rather than exhaustively.

Source and provenance

National Heritage List spatial data — Historic England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest heritage at risk entry

Representative locationMapped place

50 m

Straight-line distance to the closest entry on the 2024 register within 5 km

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Remains of corner tower to former Archbishops Palace.

Distance to the nearest asset recorded as at risk in 2024. The register describes the condition of that asset in that year and says nothing about the condition of anything else nearby, including this postcode's own buildings.

Source and provenance

National Heritage List spatial data — Historic England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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14

Schools & childcare

Nearby schools and providers. Distance is not catchment — admission is set by each authority or school.

24figures

Nearest primary school

Representative locationMapped place

300 m

Straight-line distance to the closest open primary school

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Primary School.

Straight-line distance, not walking distance, and not a catchment. A school's admission area is set by its admission authority and is not a circle around your home: living nearest confers no right to a place, and the school a child is offered is often not the closest one.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest primary school: reading, writing and maths

Representative locationMapped place

63.0%

Pupils reaching the expected standard in all three, most recent published year

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Primary School (2024/25).

One cohort in one year at one school, and not comparable with earlier years — primary assessment changed and nothing was published for 2019/20 or 2020/21. Small cohorts are suppressed by the Department for Education, which shows here as no figure rather than a low one. England only.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest secondary school

Representative locationMapped place

2.9 km

Straight-line distance to the closest open secondary school

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Knole Academy.

Straight-line distance, not walking distance, and not a catchment. Secondary admission is decided by the admission authority against published oversubscription criteria; proximity is only one of them and guarantees nothing.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest secondary school: Attainment 8

Representative locationMapped place

44.3

Average score across eight qualifications, most recent published year

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Knole Academy (2024/25).

Attainment 8 measures results, which track pupil intake closely. It is not comparable with years before the 9-1 grades, and no results were published for 2019/20 or 2020/21, so there is no trend to read. England only.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest further education provider

Representative locationMapped place

13 km

Closest college or 16-plus provider on the DfE register

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is North Kent College.

Get Information About Schools records colleges less completely than schools, and independent training providers are largely absent, so this is a floor rather than a full list of what is available locally.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest secondary school: Progress 8

Representative locationMapped place

-0.49

Progress from key stage 2 to key stage 4, most recent published year

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Knole Academy (2023/24).

Zero is the national average, so a small negative figure is not a failing school. The measure is suppressed for small cohorts, special schools and independent schools — where it is missing that is usually why, not poor performance. DfE do not publish it every year, so the year shown can be earlier than the other school figures here, and the values are not comparable across years in any case. England only.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest school: phase

Representative locationMapped place

Primary

The age range group the closest school serves

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Describes the single closest school, which may not be the one a child at this postcode would attend.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest school: type

Representative locationMapped place

Community school

Academy, community school, voluntary aided and so on

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Establishment type governs who runs and admits to the school, which is often why the admission rules differ from the local authority's.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest school: pupils on roll

Representative locationMapped place

239

From the most recent school census recorded in GIAS

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Primary School.

Pupils on roll at the last census date held, which can be up to a year old. It is not the number of places available.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest school: pupils eligible for free school meals

Representative locationMapped place

14.6%

A pupil characteristic, not a measure of the school

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Primary School.

Describes who attends, not how the school performs, and it reflects the catchment population rather than this postcode. Eligibility rules have changed over time, so shares are not comparable with older figures.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest school: academy trust

Representative locationMapped place

Not part of an academy trust

The trust running the closest school, where it is in one

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Trust membership changes when a school converts or transfers, and Get Information About Schools can lag those changes by a month or two.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-PERF · Open Government Licence · imported 28 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics and Get Information About Schools.

Primary schools

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Open primary schools on the DfE register

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts schools, not places. None of them is guaranteed to admit a child at this postcode — admission is decided by each school's admission authority, and a popular school can fill from a few hundred metres away.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-PERF · Open Government Licence · imported 28 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics and Get Information About Schools.

Secondary schools

Representative locationWithin 5 km

2

Open secondary schools on the DfE register

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts schools, not places, and 5 km is a straight line rather than a travel distance. Admission is not decided by proximity alone.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-PERF · Open Government Licence · imported 28 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics and Get Information About Schools.

Latest school inspection date

Representative locationMapped place

18 October 2023

When the nearest school was last inspected

Source period
2026-07-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The date of the most recent inspection of any kind — a report card, a graded inspection or an ungraded one. Which kind it was decides what the outcome beside it means. Describes the NEAREST school in a straight line, which is not a catchment and says nothing about whether a child here could get a place — admission is decided by each admission authority against its own criteria. An inspection describes a school on the days inspectors visited and can be years old. Ofsted no longer give one overall grade: inspections from 10 November 2025 produce a report card with a separate judgement per area, inspections between September 2024 and November 2025 were given no overall grade, and earlier grades come from a framework that no longer exists. Those are different judgements and are never placed on one scale. Management information, revised monthly. England only — Estyn and Education Scotland inspect on frameworks that produce nothing comparable.

Source and provenance

State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-OFSTED · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted.

Nearest nursery or childcare provider

Representative locationMapped place

300 m

Straight-line distance to the closest registered provider

Source period
2026-03-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Little Treacle's Nursery Ltd.

Straight-line distance to the nearest ACTIVE provider on non-domestic premises — a nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club. Childminders are excluded because Ofsted redact their addresses, which are private homes, so this is not the nearest childcare of any kind. It is not walking distance, and it says nothing about whether a place is available: registration is a ceiling, not a vacancy.

Source and provenance

Ofsted childcare providers and inspections — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-CHILD · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections.

Childcare providers

Representative locationWithin 1 km

2

Active providers on non-domestic premises

Source period
2026-03-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts nurseries, pre-schools and out-of-school clubs within 1 km. It does NOT count childminders, who make up a large share of registered childcare and whose home addresses Ofsted does not publish — so a low number here does not mean there is little childcare nearby. It counts premises, not places, and says nothing about vacancies.

Source and provenance

Ofsted childcare providers and inspections — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-CHILD · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections.

Latest school inspection outcome judgements

Representative locationMapped place

Ungraded inspection of 18 October 2023 under the previous framework: School remains Good

What the inspection concluded, on the framework it was made under

Source period
2026-07-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The value names its own framework because there is no single scale spanning them. A report card gives a judgement per area and no overall grade; a graded inspection from before September 2024 gives one overall grade; one from between September 2024 and November 2025 gives area judgements and no overall grade at all. Describes the NEAREST school in a straight line, which is not a catchment and says nothing about whether a child here could get a place — admission is decided by each admission authority against its own criteria. An inspection describes a school on the days inspectors visited and can be years old. Ofsted no longer give one overall grade: inspections from 10 November 2025 produce a report card with a separate judgement per area, inspections between September 2024 and November 2025 were given no overall grade, and earlier grades come from a framework that no longer exists. Those are different judgements and are never placed on one scale. Management information, revised monthly. England only — Estyn and Education Scotland inspect on frameworks that produce nothing comparable.

Source and provenance

State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-OFSTED · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted.

Nearest childcare provider type

Representative locationMapped place

Childcare on non-domestic premises

What kind of provider the nearest one is

Source period
2026-03-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Describes the single nearest provider, which may be some distance away, and not the mix of childcare in this area.

Source and provenance

Ofsted childcare providers and inspections — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-CHILD · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections.

School inspection report link

Representative locationMapped place

http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/118279

The Ofsted page for the nearest school

Source period
2026-07-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The report itself is the only place the judgements are explained in the inspectors' own words, and it is worth more than any summary of it. Describes the NEAREST school in a straight line, which is not a catchment and says nothing about whether a child here could get a place — admission is decided by each admission authority against its own criteria. An inspection describes a school on the days inspectors visited and can be years old. Ofsted no longer give one overall grade: inspections from 10 November 2025 produce a report card with a separate judgement per area, inspections between September 2024 and November 2025 were given no overall grade, and earlier grades come from a framework that no longer exists. Those are different judgements and are never placed on one scale. Management information, revised monthly. England only — Estyn and Education Scotland inspect on frameworks that produce nothing comparable.

Source and provenance

State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-OFSTED · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted.

Nearest childcare provider inspection date

Representative locationMapped place

30 September 2025 (Little Treacle's Nursery Ltd)

When Ofsted last inspected the nearest provider

Source period
2026-03-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The date of one inspection at one provider. Inspection cycles run to years, so a recent date and an old one do not mean what they would for a routine check.

Source and provenance

Ofsted childcare providers and inspections — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-CHILD · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections.

Years since the nearest school was inspected

Representative locationMapped place

2.9 years

How old the judgement beside it is

Source period
2026-07-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Built because the age of a judgement changes what it is worth. A school inspected six years ago may share nothing but its URN with the school of that name today, and its grade was awarded under a framework that no longer exists. Describes the NEAREST school in a straight line, which is not a catchment and says nothing about whether a child here could get a place — admission is decided by each admission authority against its own criteria. An inspection describes a school on the days inspectors visited and can be years old. Ofsted no longer give one overall grade: inspections from 10 November 2025 produce a report card with a separate judgement per area, inspections between September 2024 and November 2025 were given no overall grade, and earlier grades come from a framework that no longer exists. Those are different judgements and are never placed on one scale. Management information, revised monthly. England only — Estyn and Education Scotland inspect on frameworks that produce nothing comparable.

Source and provenance

State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-OFSTED · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted.

Nearest childcare provider inspection outcome

Representative locationMapped place

2 (Education inspection framework (legacy))

What Ofsted found at the nearest provider

Source period
2026-03-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Ofsted has replaced the single overall grade with separate judgements for each area of practice plus a safeguarding met/not-met decision. Providers inspected under the old framework still carry the old grade. The two are not points on one scale, so the framework is stated with the judgement and no combined score is invented. Providers only on the Childcare Register are not routinely inspected and have no outcome at all.

Source and provenance

Ofsted childcare providers and inspections — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-CHILD · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections.

Nearest childcare provider registered places

Representative locationMapped place

36

How many children the nearest provider may care for

Source period
2026-03-31

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Little Treacle's Nursery Ltd.

The maximum the provider is registered for. It is a ceiling, not a vacancy: no availability data is published anywhere in this source, and a fully subscribed nursery shows the same number as an empty one.

Source and provenance

Ofsted childcare providers and inspections — Ofsted

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-CHILD · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections.

Nearest school: published capacity

Representative locationMapped place

300

Number of places in the latest GIAS register

Source period
2024/25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Primary School.

Capacity is the published number of places, not vacancies. Pupil count and capacity may come from different census dates, and proximity does not imply admission or catchment.

Source and provenance

Compare school performance data — Department for Education

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

EDU-PERF · Open Government Licence · imported 28 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics and Get Information About Schools.

15

Health & care

Nearby health services and health figures for the wider area. These are shown separately because they describe different things.

56figures

Nearest GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

150 m

Straight-line distance to the closest practice still open

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

The closest practice by straight line within 10 km, measured to the middle of its postcode. Distance is straight-line to the practice's registered postcode, not a walking or driving route. Being near a practice is not the same as being able to join it: practices hold registered boundaries and can close their lists, so check with the practice itself before assuming you could register.

Source and provenance

NHS Organisation Data Service — GP practice register — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-ODS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 28 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service.

GP practices

Representative locationWithin 5 km

5

Open practices with a registered address inside 5 km

Source period
2026-08-28

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts practices, not appointments and not capacity. Several branches of one partnership are registered separately and each is counted. Distance is straight-line to the practice's registered postcode, not a walking or driving route. Being near a practice is not the same as being able to join it: practices hold registered boundaries and can close their lists, so check with the practice itself before assuming you could register.

Source and provenance

NHS Organisation Data Service — GP practice register — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-ODS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 28 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service.

Recorded diabetes prevalence at GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

6.8%

Patients aged 17 and over on the practice's diabetes register

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

The diabetes register covers patients aged 17 and over, so the denominator is that part of the list and not the whole of it. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

Recorded asthma prevalence at GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

6.1%

Patients aged 6 and over on the practice's asthma register

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

The asthma register covers patients aged 6 and over who have been prescribed treatment, so children under 6 are outside both the register and the denominator. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

Recorded hypertension prevalence at GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

16.7%

Patients on the practice's hypertension register

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Hypertension is substantially under-diagnosed everywhere, so this is a floor rather than a rate: an area with more recorded hypertension may simply be finding more of it. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

Recorded chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) prevalence at GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

1.4%

Patients on the practice's COPD register

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is diagnosed by spirometry, and access to testing varies, so recorded prevalence partly reflects how readily a practice can confirm a diagnosis. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

Recorded depression prevalence at GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

15.7%

Patients aged 18 and over on the practice's depression register

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

The register counts patients with a NEW diagnosis recorded since April 2006, so it is a cumulative record of diagnoses rather than a count of people currently depressed, and it under-counts anyone who never sought help. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

Recorded coronary heart disease prevalence at GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

3.0%

Patients on the practice's coronary heart disease register

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

A register of people who have already had heart disease diagnosed, which rises with the age of a practice's list as much as with anything about the area. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

GP practice quality-framework achievement

Representative locationMapped place

97.6%

Points earned against the maximum available to that practice

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Achievement measures documented process against payment thresholds — a reading recorded in a window, a review offered — and not clinical outcome. It is compressed near the top: most practices score above 90%, so small differences are not meaningful. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

Recorded cancer prevalence at GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

5.4%

Patients on the practice's cancer register

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Counts patients diagnosed since April 2003 who are still registered — so it rises where survival is good, and a higher figure is not a worse one. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

Recorded dementia prevalence at GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

1.2%

Patients on the practice's dementia register

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Dementia diagnosis rates vary widely between practices independently of how many people have dementia, and a list with more older patients will record more of it whatever the area is like. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

Registered list size at the nearest GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

11,476

Patients registered with that practice

Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

The size of the practice's list, not the population of this area. It is context for every other practice figure: the smaller the list, the more a single patient moves a percentage. This is RECORDED prevalence among patients registered at the practice — the share of its list that appears on a register the practice maintains and is paid to maintain. It measures how well a practice finds and records a condition as much as how common the condition is, so a high figure can mean better case-finding rather than worse health. It describes a registered list, wherever those patients live, and not the people around this postcode. England only: Scotland abolished QOF in 2016/17 and Wales uses a different framework, so no comparable figure exists for either.

Source and provenance

Quality and Outcomes Framework — NHS England

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-QOF · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework.

Male life expectancy at birth

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Years a boy born here now could expect to live

Sevenoaks
81.7 years
Source period
2019 - 23
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A period life expectancy: how long a boy born today would live IF the death rates of the last few years held for his whole life. It is not a forecast of anyone's lifespan. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Nearby care homes

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Care homes registered with CQC within 1 km

Source period
01 September 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts homes registered with CQC at an address within 1 km. It says nothing about vacancies, cost, or whether a home is taking new residents, and dormant registrations are excluded.

Source and provenance

Care Quality Commission register — Care Quality Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-CQC · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Contains CQC information, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Overall experience of GP practice

Representative locationMapped place

69.2%

Patients rating their practice good overall

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 32: "Overall, how would you describe your experience of your GP practice?" The figure is the share answering very good or fairly good. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Experience of contacting the practice

Representative locationMapped place

62.8%

Patients describing their last contact as good

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 16: "Overall, how would you describe your experience of contacting your GP practice on this occasion?" Only people who tried to make contact answer, so anyone who gave up before trying is not in it. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Female life expectancy at birth

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Years a girl born here now could expect to live

Sevenoaks
84.6 years
Source period
2019 - 23
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A period life expectancy: how long a girl born today would live IF the death rates of the last few years held for her whole life. It is not a forecast of anyone's lifespan. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Nearby regulated GP services

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

GP practice sites registered with CQC within 1 km

Source period
01 September 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Zero means no GP practice is REGISTERED at an address within 1 km — not that no GP serves this postcode. Practice boundaries routinely extend several kilometres, and whether a practice will register you is its own decision. Private consulting doctors are excluded.

Source and provenance

Care Quality Commission register — Care Quality Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-CQC · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Contains CQC information, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ease of contacting the practice by phone

Representative locationMapped place

59.5%

Patients finding the phone easy to use

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 1: "Generally, how easy or difficult is it to contact your GP practice on the phone?" People who have not tried are excluded rather than counted as finding it easy. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Male life expectancy at 65

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Further years a man reaching 65 could expect

Sevenoaks
20.1 years
Source period
2023 - 25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Further years of life expected from age 65, which is always shorter than the difference between 65 and life expectancy at birth. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Nearby regulated dentists

Representative locationWithin 1 km

2

Dental practices registered with CQC within 1 km

Source period
01 September 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The register does not record whether a practice is NHS or private, or whether it is accepting patients — both of which matter far more than distance.

Source and provenance

Care Quality Commission register — Care Quality Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-CQC · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Contains CQC information, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ease of contacting the practice through its website

Representative locationMapped place

69.7%

Patients finding the website easy to use

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 2: "Generally, how easy or difficult is it to contact your GP practice using their website?" Most patients have never tried, so this describes a small and self-selected group. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Female life expectancy at 65

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Further years a woman reaching 65 could expect

Sevenoaks
22.1 years
Source period
2023 - 25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Further years of life expected from age 65, which is always shorter than the difference between 65 and life expectancy at birth. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Nearby hospitals

Representative locationWithin 5 km

2

Acute hospital sites registered with CQC within 5 km

Source period
01 September 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts registered acute hospital sites, NHS and independent together. A site in the count is not necessarily one with an emergency department, and the nearest hospital is not always the one you would be taken to.

Source and provenance

Care Quality Commission register — Care Quality Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-CQC · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Contains CQC information, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Care Quality Commission rating of the nearest service

Representative locationMapped place

Good — Otford Medical Practice, published 20 March 2024

The regulator's judgement on one named service, with its date

Source period
01 September 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A CQC rating describes one registered service at its last assessment, which can be several years ago — the publication date is shown for that reason. It is not a measure of care in the area, and most dentists and many GP practices carry no location-level rating at all, which is not the same as a poor one.

Source and provenance

Care Quality Commission register — Care Quality Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-CQC · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Contains CQC information, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ease of contacting the practice through the NHS App

Representative locationMapped place

39.0%

Patients finding the NHS App easy to use

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 3: "Generally, how easy or difficult is it to contact your GP practice using the NHS App?" App users skew younger and more confident online, so this is not a measure of the practice's accessibility to everyone. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Under 75 mortality from all causes

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Age-standardised deaths under 75, per 100,000

Sevenoaks
245.88 per 100,000
Source period
2023 - 25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Age-standardised, so districts with older and younger populations can be compared. It counts deaths before 75 only, and says nothing about the chance of any individual dying. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Helpfulness of reception staff

Representative locationMapped place

76.3%

Patients finding reception helpful

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 4: "Overall, how helpful do you find the reception and administrative team at your GP practice?" A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Latest Care Quality Commission (CQC) report publication date nearby

Representative locationWithin 1 km

20 March 2024

The most recent publication date among rated services within 1 km

Source period
01 September 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The most recent date any nearby service was rated. A recent date for one service says nothing about how long ago the others were assessed, and CQC ratings in the register run back more than a decade.

Source and provenance

Care Quality Commission register — Care Quality Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-CQC · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Contains CQC information, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Under 75 mortality from cardiovascular disease

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Age-standardised deaths under 75, per 100,000

Sevenoaks
54.33 per 100,000
Source period
2023 - 25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Age-standardised. Cause of death is taken from the death certificate, and certification practice varies between areas. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Confidence and trust in the healthcare professional

Representative locationMapped place

89.2%

Patients with confidence in whoever they saw

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 28: "Did you have confidence and trust in the healthcare professional you saw or spoke to?" It is about one appointment with one person, not about the practice as a whole. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Registered care services

Representative locationWithin 1 km

4

All CQC-registered locations, health and social care together

Source period
01 September 2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts registered ADDRESSES within 1 km. Homecare agencies, out-of-hours services and remote advice lines register an office and deliver care elsewhere, so a high count is not the same as a lot of care available on your doorstep.

Source and provenance

Care Quality Commission register — Care Quality Commission

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-CQC · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Contains CQC information, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Under 75 mortality from cancer

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Age-standardised deaths under 75, per 100,000

Sevenoaks
96.7 per 100,000
Source period
2023 - 25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Age-standardised. Measures deaths, not diagnoses: an area with good survival and high incidence can look the same as one with the opposite. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Infant mortality rate

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Deaths under one year per 1,000 live births

Sevenoaks
2.34 per 1,000 live births
Source period
2022 - 24
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Built on small numbers even pooled over three years, so it moves sharply on a handful of deaths and districts that look different frequently are not. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Needs met at the last appointment

Representative locationMapped place

88.2%

Patients whose needs were met, definitely or in part

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 31: "Thinking about the reason for your last appointment, were your needs met?" Only people who had an appointment answer. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Reception-age children living with obesity

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Children aged 4 to 5 measured as obese

Sevenoaks
7.2%
Source period
2024/25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Children are weighed and measured at school through the National Child Measurement Programme, so this is measured rather than reported — but families may opt out, and it describes the district's schools rather than any one of them. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Satisfaction with the wait for the last appointment

Representative locationMapped place

69.1%

Patients content with how long they waited

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 21: "How do you feel about how long you waited for your appointment?" It measures how people felt about the wait, not how long the wait was — the same delay is acceptable for a review and not for a new symptom. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Being listened to at the last appointment

Representative locationMapped place

78.1%

Patients rating the professional good at listening

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 24: "During your last appointment, how good was the healthcare professional at listening to you?" A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Year 6 children living with obesity

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Children aged 10 to 11 measured as obese

Sevenoaks
15.3%
Source period
2024/25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Measured at school. Year 6 prevalence is roughly double reception prevalence everywhere, so the two must never be read as a trend in the same children. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Being involved in decisions about care

Representative locationMapped place

85.7%

Patients as involved as they wanted to be

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 29: "At your last appointment, were you involved as much as you wanted to be in decisions about your care and treatment?" A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Low birth weight of term babies

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Babies born at 37 weeks or later under 2,500g

Sevenoaks
2.2%
Source period
2024
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Restricted to babies born at 37 weeks or later, because most pre-term babies are low birth weight by definition and including them would measure prematurity instead. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Experience of NHS services when the practice was closed

Representative locationMapped place

55.8%

Patients rating out-of-hours contact good

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Question 36: "Overall, how would you describe your experience of NHS services on this occasion when your GP practice was closed?" It covers 111, pharmacy and urgent care as well as an out-of-hours GP, and only the minority who used one in the last year answer, so the base is small and the interval wide. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

General fertility rate

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Live births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44

Sevenoaks
61.15 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44
Source period
2018 - 22
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Births to women resident in the district. Student and military populations distort the denominator in some areas. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Adults who smoke

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Adults 18 and over who currently smoke

Sevenoaks
9.6%
Source period
2022 - 24
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A SURVEY ESTIMATE from the Annual Population Survey, not a count. The sample in one district is small and the confidence interval is correspondingly wide — wide enough that neighbouring districts frequently cannot be told apart at all. Smoking is also under-reported in surveys. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Survey response rate at the nearest practice

Representative locationMapped place

28.4%

Questionnaires returned as a share of those sent

Source period
2026

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is OTFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Not a judgement on the practice. It is the number that says how much weight every other survey figure for this practice will bear, and who answered a postal survey is not a random sample of who is registered. A weighted estimate from a postal and online survey of patients REGISTERED at the practice, wherever they live — not the view of this neighbourhood. About a hundred people answer for a typical practice, so the published 95% confidence interval is wide and two practices whose intervals overlap have not been shown to differ. Fieldwork runs January to April and results are published once a year. Results based on fewer than ten responses are suppressed by the publisher and appear here as no result rather than as a low score. England only: Scotland runs a different survey and Wales has no practice-level equivalent.

Source and provenance

GP Patient Survey 2026 — NHS England / Ipsos

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

HEALTH-GPPS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, GP Patient Survey (Ipsos).

Physically active adults

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Adults meeting the recommended activity level

Sevenoaks
75.7%
Source period
2024/25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A SURVEY ESTIMATE from Active Lives, based on what respondents report doing. Self-reported activity runs higher than measured activity, and the interval around a single district is wide. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Out of work benefit claimants

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Working-age people claiming an out-of-work benefit

Sevenoaks
2.1%
Source period
2024/25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Counts claims, not unemployment. Eligibility rules and how they are applied change over time, which moves this figure independently of the labour market. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Fuel poverty

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Households on the low income, low energy efficiency measure

Sevenoaks
9.6%
Source period
2023
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A MODELLED estimate of households, produced by combining survey data with housing and income models — not a count of households in difficulty. The definition counts a household as fuel poor when it is on a low income AND lives in a poorly insulated home, so improving insulation moves the figure without anyone's income changing. A figure for the whole local authority district — tens or hundreds of thousands of residents — and not for this postcode, this street or anyone living here. England only: Scotland and Wales run separate frameworks on different definitions.

Source and provenance

Fingertips public-health data — OHID

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-OHID · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips.

Life satisfaction

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Average rating by adults aged 16 and over, from 0 not at all satisfied to 10 completely satisfied

Sevenoaks
7.73 score out of 10
Source period
2022/23
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A sample-survey mean for the whole local authority, not a measurement of every resident and not a statement about this postcode or any individual.

Source and provenance

Personal wellbeing estimates — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-ELS-WELLBEING · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Happiness

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Average rating of happiness yesterday by adults aged 16 and over, from 0 to 10

Sevenoaks
7.89 score out of 10
Source period
2022/23
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A sample-survey mean for the whole local authority, not a measurement of every resident. The question asks about happiness yesterday and can move with survey sampling.

Source and provenance

Personal wellbeing estimates — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-ELS-WELLBEING · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Anxiety

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Average rating of anxiety yesterday by adults aged 16 and over, from 0 not at all anxious to 10 completely anxious

Sevenoaks
2.71 score out of 10
Source period
2022/23
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A sample-survey mean for the whole local authority. Unlike the other wellbeing scores, a higher anxiety score means more anxiety; comparisons state only higher or lower and do not turn that into a verdict.

Source and provenance

Personal wellbeing estimates — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-ELS-WELLBEING · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Life worthwhile

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Average rating that the things adults do in life are worthwhile, from 0 to 10

Sevenoaks
8.08 score out of 10
Source period
2022/23
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A sample-survey mean for the whole local authority, not a measurement of every resident and not a statement about this postcode or any individual.

Source and provenance

Personal wellbeing estimates — Office for National Statistics

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-ELS-WELLBEING · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Adults living with obesity

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Estimated percentage of adults aged 18 and over classified as living with obesity

Sevenoaks
24.0%
Source period
2024/25
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Based on self-reported height and weight in the Active Lives Adult Survey, adjusted to estimate likely measured values. It is an authority-wide estimate with uncertainty, not a diagnosis or a count of residents.

Source and provenance

Adult obesity prevalence — Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (distributed by ONS)

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

HEALTH-ELS-OBESITY · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 22 October 2026

Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Disability

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

14.1%

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
17.8%
Median
14.1%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
11.8%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Self-reported general health

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Very good

983

Good

510

Fair

146

Bad

30

Very bad

6

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Unpaid carers

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

9.2%

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
10.0%
Median
9.2%
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009E
8.2%
Source period
Census 2021
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

16

Transport & getting around

Stops, stations, roads and how easily this location connects to elsewhere.

63figures

Commuting method

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Work at or from home

435

Car or van (driving)

200

Train

47

Car or van (passenger)

16

On foot

15

Other

6

Bicycle

2

Motorcycle or scooter

2

Bus, minibus or coach

1

Underground, metro, tram

0

Taxi

0

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

Use England/Wales Census 2021, Scotland Census 2022 or NISRA Census 2021 according to country; these are area characteristics, not attributes of an individual postcode household.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Access to a major town or city

Published area figureTown or built-up area

Further from a major town or city

ONS nearer/further classification based on modelled driving time

Source period
ONS towns classification, May 2026

Derived with network analysis and modelled driving times. It is a broad town classification, not a live journey-time estimate.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearest bus stop

Representative locationMapped place

150 m

Straight-line distance to the closest stop

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Straight-line distance, not walking distance. NaPTAN records that a stop exists, not how often it is served — a stop with two buses a week looks identical here to one with a bus every few minutes.

Source and provenance

National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-NAPTAN · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Bus stops

Representative locationWithin 500 m

9

Straight-line distance to the closest station

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Straight-line distance, not travel distance. Says nothing about how many trains call there or where they go.

Source and provenance

National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-NAPTAN · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Nearest railway station

Representative locationMapped place

250 m

Straight-line distance to the closest station

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Straight-line distance, not travel distance. Says nothing about how many trains call there or where they go.

Source and provenance

National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-NAPTAN · Open Government Licence · imported 2 October 2026

Which A road is nearest

Representative locationMapped place

A225 (Station Road)

By number, and by name where OS record one

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Names the nearest A-classified road so the distance beside it can be judged. Classification is a highway-authority designation, not a description of size or traffic: some A roads carry motorway-scale flows and others are single-track.

Source and provenance

OS Open Roads — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-OSROADS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Distance to the nearest A road

Representative locationMapped place

30 m

Straight-line distance to the carriageway

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is A225.

An A road can be a six-lane dual carriageway or a village high street, so the distance means little without the road number shown beside it. Measured to a centreline generalised to 1:25,000, from the centre of the postcode rather than from any particular address.

Source and provenance

OS Open Roads — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-OSROADS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Distance to the nearest motorway

Representative locationMapped place

950 m

Straight-line distance to the carriageway

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is M26.

Distance to the carriageway, which is NOT access to it — the way on to a motorway is a junction, and the nearest one can be many miles away. A motorway a few hundred metres from the door is usually experienced as noise, light and traffic rather than as a convenience. Measured to a centreline generalised to 1:25,000, so treat it as good to a few tens of metres.

Source and provenance

OS Open Roads — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-OSROADS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Nearest motorway junction

Representative locationMapped place

4.3 km

Where the motorway network can actually be joined

Source period
2026-04

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is M25 J5.

The access metric, as opposed to the proximity one: this is where you can get on to the motorway. Straight-line distance, so the road distance is always further, and a junction can be restricted to particular directions — OS Open Roads records no turn or access restrictions at all.

Source and provenance

OS Open Roads — Ordnance Survey

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-OSROADS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Estimated entries and exits at the nearest station

Representative locationMapped place

445,500

Over the most recent published year

Otford
Otford
Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. ORR station usage is estimated from ticket-sales modelling, not a count of people. The nearest station has its latest published entries/exits estimate for 2024-25.

An ESTIMATE produced by Steer for the Office of Rail and Road, derived primarily from ticket sales — not a count of passengers. Entries and exits are counted separately, so a single return journey contributes several. Season tickets are apportioned by an assumed number of journeys and contactless pay-as-you-go travel is under-represented, which understates busy London and south-east stations most. It describes the station, not this postcode.

Source and provenance

Estimates of station usage — Office of Rail and Road

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ORR · Open Government Licence · imported 20 October 2026

Source: Office of Rail and Road, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Station positions from NaPTAN, Department for Transport, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Estimated interchanges at the nearest station

Representative locationMapped place

48,704

Passengers changing trains without leaving the station

Otford
Otford
Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. ORR station usage is estimated from ticket-sales modelling, not a count of people. The nearest station has its latest published entries/exits estimate for 2024-25.

Modelled from ticketing rather than observed, and zero at most stations because most stations are not interchange points. A high figure describes people passing through, who never leave the platform and are not local traffic.

Source and provenance

Estimates of station usage — Office of Rail and Road

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ORR · Open Government Licence · imported 20 October 2026

Source: Office of Rail and Road, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Station positions from NaPTAN, Department for Transport, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Station-usage trend

Representative locationMapped place

11.2%

Between the two most recent published years

Otford
Otford, 2023-24 to 2024-25
Source period
2024-25

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. ORR station usage is estimated from ticket-sales modelling, not a count of people. The nearest station has its latest published entries/exits estimate for 2024-25.

Compares two years of MODELLED estimates, so a change can come from a change in ticketing or in the model rather than in travel. Years affected by the pandemic and by industrial action move sharply for reasons that have nothing to do with the area, and ORR mark a break in the series at 2022-23.

Source and provenance

Estimates of station usage — Office of Rail and Road

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ORR · Open Government Licence · imported 20 October 2026

Source: Office of Rail and Road, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Station positions from NaPTAN, Department for Transport, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Journey time to nearest employment centre by public transport or walking

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

11.84 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
31.24 minutes
Median
11.84 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
4.43 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Reported injury collisions

Representative locationWithin 1 km

23

Over the five years of data we hold

Source period
2021 to 2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts collisions that injured someone AND were reported to the police. Damage-only crashes are not collected at all, and the Department for Transport states that many non-fatal injuries never reach the police, so this is a lower bound rather than a total. A 1 km circle usually includes main roads, so this describes the local road network rather than your street.

Source and provenance

STATS19 road safety open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-STATS19 · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Fatal collisions

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Collisions in which someone died

Source period
2021 to 2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Fatal collisions are recorded consistently over time, unlike serious and slight injuries. Numbers this small move a great deal year to year, and one collision in five years is not a measure of how dangerous a road is.

Source and provenance

STATS19 road safety open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-STATS19 · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Journey time to nearest employment centre by cycle

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

10.14 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
19.02 minutes
Median
10.14 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
6.52 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest employment centre by car

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

7.96 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
11.82 minutes
Median
7.96 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
6.02 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Serious injury collisions

Representative locationWithin 1 km

8

On the Department for Transport's adjusted basis

Source period
2021 to 2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Police forces changed how injury severity is recorded at different dates between 2012 and 2025, which moved many injuries from "slight" to "serious" without anything changing on the roads. This figure uses the Department for Transport's own per-collision correction so that areas covered by different forces can be compared. It is an estimate, not a tally.

Source and provenance

STATS19 road safety open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-STATS19 · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Journey time to nearest primary school by public transport or walking

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

12.72 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 009A
15.47 minutes
Median
12.72 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009C
7.9 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Pedestrian casualties

Representative locationWithin 1 km

7

People on foot injured in reported collisions

Source period
2021 to 2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts people, not collisions: one collision can injure several. Only injuries reported to the police are included.

Source and provenance

STATS19 road safety open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-STATS19 · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Cyclist casualties

Representative locationWithin 1 km

2

People on bicycles injured in reported collisions

Source period
2021 to 2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Cyclist injuries are the most under-reported in this dataset: a collision involving no motor vehicle very often never reaches the police. Treat this as a floor, and never as evidence that cycling here is safe.

Source and provenance

STATS19 road safety open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-STATS19 · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Journey time to nearest primary school by cycle

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

10.93 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 009A
12.19 minutes
Median
10.93 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009C
9.04 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest primary school by car

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

7.96 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 009E
9.94 minutes
Median
7.96 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009C
6.56 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest secondary school by public transport or walking

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

22.25 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
44.24 minutes
Median
22.25 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009E
19.28 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest secondary school by cycle

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

21.32 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
32.37 minutes
Median
21.32 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
18.53 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest secondary school by car

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

12.84 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
17 minutes
Median
12.84 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
11.97 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest further education college by public transport or walking

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

22.73 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
44.21 minutes
Median
22.73 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009E
19.18 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest further education college by cycle

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

21.59 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
30.57 minutes
Median
21.59 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
18.48 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Nearest Department for Transport (DfT) traffic count point

Representative locationMapped place

The A225, 800 m away (Vestry Rd, Sevenoaks to A20)

The road link traffic is counted on, and how far away it is

Source period
2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Traffic figures describe the road link named here, not this postcode or its own street. Most residential streets have no count point at all, and their absence from this data says nothing about their traffic.

Source and provenance

Road traffic statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-TRAFFIC · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Distance to the nearest count point

Representative locationMapped place

800 m

Straight-line distance to the counted road

Source period
2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Straight-line distance, not walking distance. Distance alone means little: being 200 m from a motorway count point and 200 m from a quiet B road are very different situations, which is why the road is named alongside it.

Source and provenance

Road traffic statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-TRAFFIC · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Journey time to nearest further education college by car

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

12.91 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
16.48 minutes
Median
12.91 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
12.02 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Annual average daily motor vehicles

Representative locationMapped place

8,140 vehicles a day on the A225 (2025 figure)

On the nearest counted road link

Source period
2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The average number of vehicles a day across a full year on the road named, expanded from 12-hour weekday roadside counts. It is a volume, not a speed, and it says nothing about congestion. It belongs to that road link and not to this postcode. The year shown is the most recent year that link has a figure for, which on a minor road is often several years ago.

Source and provenance

Road traffic statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-TRAFFIC · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Journey time to nearest GP surgery by public transport or walking

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

23.8 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 009C
27.7 minutes
Median
23.8 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
10.71 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Heavy goods vehicles a day

Representative locationMapped place

148 HGVs a day on the A225 (2025 figure)

On the nearest counted road link

Source period
2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Lorries counted on the road named, averaged over a full year. Comes from the same record as the total, so where that figure is an estimate this one is too.

Source and provenance

Road traffic statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-TRAFFIC · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Journey time to nearest GP surgery by cycle

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

15.63 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 009C
19.13 minutes
Median
15.63 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
9.34 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

How the traffic figure was produced

Representative locationMapped place

Counted on the A225 in 2025

Counted on the road that year, or estimated from an earlier count

Source period
2025

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Major roads are manually counted once every one to eight years — up to twelve in Scotland and Wales — and the years in between are factored from the last survey. Most published major-road figures are therefore estimates rather than a count taken that year.

Source and provenance

Road traffic statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-TRAFFIC · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

Journey time to nearest GP surgery by car

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

10.98 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 009C
12.81 minutes
Median
10.98 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
7.47 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest hospital by public transport or walking

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

67.41 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
72.83 minutes
Median
67.41 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
54.17 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest hospital by cycle

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

54.88 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 009C
61.6 minutes
Median
54.88 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 008E
44.46 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest hospital by car

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

26.03 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 009C
29.26 minutes
Median
26.03 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009E
20.73 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest food store by public transport or walking

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

8.38 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
10.75 minutes
Median
8.38 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
6.34 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest food store by cycle

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

10.31 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
18.37 minutes
Median
10.31 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
6.85 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest food store by car

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

8.38 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
10.75 minutes
Median
8.38 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009A
6.34 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest town centre by public transport or walking

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

34.12 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
47.7 minutes
Median
34.12 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
25.64 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest town centre by cycle

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

28.34 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
35.34 minutes
Median
28.34 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
26.46 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest town centre by car

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

16.41 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2019

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
19.19 minutes
Median
16.41 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009D
16.06 minutes
Source period
2019
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest pharmacy by cycle

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

9.51 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2015

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
17.51 minutes
Median
9.51 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009C
6.06 minutes
Source period
2015
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Journey time to nearest pharmacy by car

Range across the areaLocal neighbourhood

7.3 minutes

Modelled for a representative weekday, 2015

Highest — Sevenoaks 008E
9.96 minutes
Median
7.3 minutes
Lowest — Sevenoaks 009C
5.08 minutes
Source period
2015
How calculated
Range across complete intersecting source areas
Source areas
6 / 6

Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.

Modelled for 2019 and never updated — the Department for Transport discontinued this series in 2025, so it cannot describe today's roads or bus services. It is a neighbourhood average computed from timetables and a network model for a representative weekday departure, not a measured journey from this address. England only: Scotland and Wales were never covered.

Source and provenance

Journey Time Statistics — Department for Transport

Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.

TRANS-JTS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Journey Time Statistics.

Public electric vehicle (EV) chargers in the local authority

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Reported operational at the quarter end

Sevenoaks
117
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

A count for the whole local authority, which is far larger than a postcode — it says nothing about whether there is a charger on this street. The figures are compiled from operators' own returns via Zapmap and describe chargers REPORTED OPERATIONAL at midnight on the reporting date. A charger counted here may be out of order, blocked, on a private site, or on a network you have no account with.

Source and provenance

Public EV charging infrastructure statistics — Department for Transport / Zapmap-derived

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

TRANS-EV · Open Government Licence for publication; underlying Zapmap data licensing separate · imported 19 October 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, electric vehicle charging device statistics. Charger data supplied by Zapmap; population denominators from Office for National Statistics mid-year estimates.

Rapid and ultra-rapid chargers (50 kW and above)

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

The subset able to charge in minutes rather than hours

Sevenoaks
29
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

DfT define rapid and ultra-rapid as 50 kW and above. Speed matters more than count: twenty 7 kW lamp-post posts and twenty 150 kW units are the same number and a completely different proposition. The published tables carry power bands only — there is no breakdown by connector type, so this does not tell you whether a particular car can use them.

Source and provenance

Public EV charging infrastructure statistics — Department for Transport / Zapmap-derived

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

TRANS-EV · Open Government Licence for publication; underlying Zapmap data licensing separate · imported 19 October 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, electric vehicle charging device statistics. Charger data supplied by Zapmap; population denominators from Office for National Statistics mid-year estimates.

Public electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints per 100,000 people

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Chargers per head of the local authority population

Sevenoaks
95.317
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Divides an operator-reported charger count by an ONS mid-2024 population estimate for the whole council area. Councils covering a motorway service area or a large retail park score highly on chargers that mostly serve people passing through rather than residents.

Source and provenance

Public EV charging infrastructure statistics — Department for Transport / Zapmap-derived

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

TRANS-EV · Open Government Licence for publication; underlying Zapmap data licensing separate · imported 19 October 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, electric vehicle charging device statistics. Charger data supplied by Zapmap; population denominators from Office for National Statistics mid-year estimates.

Change in public electric vehicle (EV) chargers over the quarter

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

Against the previous quarter in the same series

Sevenoaks
1.7%
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

One quarter against the one before, which is a short window: counts fall as well as rise here, both because units are decommissioned and because operators correct their own earlier returns. A district with few chargers swings widely on a handful of installations.

Source and provenance

Public EV charging infrastructure statistics — Department for Transport / Zapmap-derived

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

TRANS-EV · Open Government Licence for publication; underlying Zapmap data licensing separate · imported 19 October 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, electric vehicle charging device statistics. Charger data supplied by Zapmap; population denominators from Office for National Statistics mid-year estimates.

Roadworks permitted

Representative locationWithin 500 m

77

In the twelve months to the latest archive

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts distinct street and road works PERMITTED within 500 m over a twelve-month window — not works you would have seen. A permit is permission to dig: some are never used, some are extended, and an "immediate" permit is applied for after an emergency dig has already started. A high count usually means old utility infrastructure or a busy through-route rather than anything about the houses.

Source and provenance

Street Manager roadworks open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ROADWORKS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager.

Rapid and ultra-rapid chargers per 100,000 people

Named wider-area contextCouncil area

50 kW and above, per head of the local authority population

Sevenoaks
23.626
Source period
2026-07
How calculated
Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure

Shown as named wider-area context. These values describe the source areas covering the town, not an exact town total or average.

Published by DfT alongside the raw count, using an ONS mid-2024 population estimate for the whole council area. As with every figure in this section, it counts chargers operators say are operational, not chargers checked to be working.

Source and provenance

Public EV charging infrastructure statistics — Department for Transport / Zapmap-derived

Method: Named wider-area context — not an exact local figure.

TRANS-EV · Open Government Licence for publication; underlying Zapmap data licensing separate · imported 19 October 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, electric vehicle charging device statistics. Charger data supplied by Zapmap; population denominators from Office for National Statistics mid-year estimates.

Roadworks under way at the latest archive date

Representative locationWithin 500 m

0

Started and not finished when the archive was cut

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

NOT A LIVE FIGURE. Street Manager's open archive publishes monthly, in arrears, so this describes the last day of the most recent archived month and not today. Works permitted since then — including the emergency digs that are raised and finished within days — are not here at all. Treat it as "how much was going on recently", never as "what is on the road now".

Source and provenance

Street Manager roadworks open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ROADWORKS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager.

Roadworks permitted but not yet started

Representative locationWithin 500 m

0

Due to begin after the latest archive date

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Works with a permit to start after the most recent archive date. Forward looking only as far as promoters had applied by then: a work starting next week may have been permitted after the archive was cut and would not appear. Permits are also routinely cancelled, so this is intention rather than schedule.

Source and provenance

Street Manager roadworks open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ROADWORKS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager.

Nearest roadworks

Representative locationMapped place

30 m

Closest works permitted in the last twelve months

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is STATION ROAD.

Straight-line distance to the works location Street Manager was given, which is a single point on a street rather than the extent of the dig — a trench running 300 m along a road is recorded at one end of it. Nothing is shown beyond 2 km.

Source and provenance

Street Manager roadworks open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ROADWORKS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager.

Who is carrying out the nearest works

Representative locationMapped place

SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC

The promoter named on the permit

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The organisation that applied for the permit — usually a utility, sometimes the highway authority. The work itself is often subcontracted, so the name on the barrier may differ from the name here.

Source and provenance

Street Manager roadworks open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ROADWORKS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager.

Nearest works: start date

Representative locationMapped place

23 Jul 2025

Actual where reported, otherwise proposed

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Marked "(proposed)" where the promoter had not reported an actual start by the archive date. A proposed date is an application, not an event.

Source and provenance

Street Manager roadworks open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ROADWORKS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager.

Nearest works: end date

Representative locationMapped place

31 Aug 2025

Actual where reported, otherwise proposed

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A proposed end date is an intention. Street works overrun routinely and permits are extended, so a date in the past does not prove the road reopened then.

Source and provenance

Street Manager roadworks open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ROADWORKS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager.

Nearest works: what is being done

Representative locationMapped place

Utility repair and maintenance works — Major

Activity type and permit category

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The open data carries no free-text description of the works — only the promoter's activity type and the permit category (Major, Standard, Minor, Immediate). "Immediate" means an emergency dig started before a permit was applied for.

Source and provenance

Street Manager roadworks open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ROADWORKS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager.

Nearest works: traffic management

Representative locationMapped place

Road closure

What the permit allowed on the road

Source period
2026-07

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

What was PERMITTED — road closure, multi-way signals, give and take, lane closure. What actually appeared on the street can differ, and the permit does not say how long each measure was in place.

Source and provenance

Street Manager roadworks open data — Department for Transport

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

TRANS-ROADWORKS · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager.

Distance travelled to work

Representative locationLocal neighbourhood

Works mainly from home

435

10 to under 20 km

73

No fixed workplace or other

53

2 to under 5 km

51

20 to under 30 km

43

30 to under 40 km

22

5 to under 10 km

19

Under 2 km

15

40 to under 60 km

9

60 km and over

4

Employed residents by straight-line workplace-distance band

Source period
Census 2021

Representative-location reading for the source area containing TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total or average and may differ elsewhere in the town.

The denominator is residents aged 16 and over who were employed in the week before the Census. Distance is straight-line home-to-work distance; home working and no fixed workplace are separate categories. Lockdown materially affected this topic. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions. This describes the LSOA around the postcode, not a household or address. ONS applies statistical disclosure control, so small category counts are perturbed and components may differ slightly from the published total. England and Wales only; Scotland's Census was held separately in 2022.

Source and provenance

Census 2021 — Office for National Statistics

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

DEMO-CENSUS-EW · Open Government Licence · imported 24 August 2026

17

Shops, food & amenities

Shops, food businesses, leisure facilities and everyday services nearby.

63figures

Food businesses

Representative locationWithin 1 mile

24

Premises inspected under the food hygiene scheme

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts only premises the Food Standards Agency holds a location for. About a fifth of the register has no coordinates, so this is a floor rather than a complete count. It covers inspected food businesses, not every shop.

Source and provenance

Food Hygiene Rating Scheme — Food Standards Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-FHRS · Open Government Licence/FSA terms · imported 2 October 2026

Rated food businesses

Representative locationWithin 1 km

13

Premises registered for food hygiene inspection

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts premises registered for food hygiene inspection, which is not the same as every place to eat: registration covers shops, schools and care homes as well as restaurants, and a closed business can stay on the register for some months.

Source and provenance

Food Hygiene Rating Scheme — Food Standards Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-FHRS · Open Government Licence/FSA terms · imported 2 October 2026

Premises rated 5

Representative locationWithin 1 mile

20

Businesses holding the top food hygiene rating

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

The 0 to 5 scheme applies in England and Wales. Scotland uses a different scheme with no equivalent score, so this measure does not apply there. A rating describes one inspection on one date, not the premises today.

Source and provenance

Food Hygiene Rating Scheme — Food Standards Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-FHRS · Open Government Licence/FSA terms · imported 2 October 2026

Share rated 5

Representative locationWithin 1 km

83.3%

Of premises with a current rating

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A share of premises that hold a current rating, so premises awaiting inspection are excluded rather than counted as poor. Scotland uses a different scheme and is reported on its own terms.

Source and provenance

Food Hygiene Rating Scheme — Food Standards Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-FHRS · Open Government Licence/FSA terms · imported 2 October 2026

Nearest restaurant or cafe

Representative locationMapped place

250 m

Straight-line distance to the closest rated premises

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Straight-line distance to the nearest premises registered for food hygiene inspection. Registration is not a recommendation, and a business that has closed can remain on the register for some months.

Source and provenance

Food Hygiene Rating Scheme — Food Standards Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-FHRS · Open Government Licence/FSA terms · imported 2 October 2026

Restaurants and cafes

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Straight-line distance to the closest rated premises

Source period
2026-10-02

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Straight-line distance to the nearest premises the FSA holds a location for, not walking distance. Premises without coordinates are not considered.

Source and provenance

Food Hygiene Rating Scheme — Food Standards Agency

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-FHRS · Open Government Licence/FSA terms · imported 2 October 2026

Nearest supermarket

Representative locationMapped place

1.8 km

To the closest shop mapped as a supermarket

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Sainsbury's.

Counts shops tagged as supermarkets only, so a large convenience store is not one and a supermarket mapped with just a brand name is missed. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of supermarkets

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

About a twelve-minute walk

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Branches, not floor space: a large store and a small one count the same. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest convenience shop

Representative locationMapped place

300 m

To the closest corner shop or general store

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is One Stop.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of convenience shops

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Corner shops and general stores

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest pharmacy

Representative locationMapped place

150 m

To the closest dispensing pharmacy

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Pharmacy.

A chemist without a dispensary is not counted, and nothing here says whether the pharmacy is open. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of pharmacies

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Dispensing pharmacies

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest doctor or clinic

Representative locationMapped place

250 m

To the closest surgery or clinic on the map

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Medical Centre.

Where a surgery is, not whether it would take you. HEALTH-ODS holds the NHS practice register and is the better answer to that question. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Doctors and clinics

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Surgeries and clinics on the map

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts buildings, not appointments, and not practices accepting patients. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest hospital

Representative locationMapped place

2.7 km

To the closest site mapped as a hospital

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Sevenoaks Hospital.

Anything tagged as a hospital, from a major acute site to a small community hospital, and it says nothing about whether there is an A&E. Searched to 30 km, because hospitals are sparse and a 10 km answer would be blank for much of the country. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of hospitals

Representative locationWithin 5 km

1

Hospital sites of any kind

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Five kilometres rather than one: a hospital within a kilometre is unusual everywhere, so a walking-distance count would be zero almost everywhere and say nothing. A large site mapped as several buildings can be counted more than once. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest dentist

Representative locationMapped place

350 m

To the closest dental surgery

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Dental Surgery.

Nothing here distinguishes an NHS practice from a private one, which is usually the question being asked. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of dentists

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Dental surgeries

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Nearest vet

Representative locationMapped place

1.5 km

To the closest veterinary surgery

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Vets4Pets.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of vets

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Veterinary surgeries

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Nearest school

Representative locationMapped place

200 m

To the edge of the closest school site

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Russell House School.

Primary and secondary, state and independent, all together — and being near a school is not the same as being in its catchment. EDU-GIAS holds the authoritative register with phase, age range and admissions. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Count of schools

Representative locationWithin 1 km

2

All phases and sectors together

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Colleges and universities are not counted. A split-site school can appear twice. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Nearest nursery or childcare

Representative locationMapped place

2.6 km

To the closest nursery or childcare premises

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Broughton Cottage Day Nursery.

Childminders working from home are essentially never on the map, so this misses a large part of the childcare that actually exists. EDU-OFSTED holds the registered provider list. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Count of nurseries and childcare

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Nurseries, pre-schools and childcare premises

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Nearest Post Office

Representative locationMapped place

350 m

To the closest branch or counter

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Post Office.

Post Office counters inside other shops are only found where somebody has mapped them as a Post Office rather than as the shop around them. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Count of Post Offices

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Branches and counters

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Nearest bank

Representative locationMapped place

4.7 km

To the closest bank branch

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Santander.

Branch closures have been rapid and the map lags them, so a branch shown here may already have gone. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Count of banks

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Bank branches

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Nearest ATM

Representative locationMapped place

300 m

To the closest free-standing cash machine

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Only machines mapped in their own right. A cash machine recorded as a feature of its bank branch is not found, so this materially under-counts, and nothing here distinguishes free machines from fee-charging ones. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Count of ATMs

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Free-standing cash machines only

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

A machine recorded as a feature of its bank rather than in its own right is not counted, so this is a floor rather than a total. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Nearest pub

Representative locationMapped place

150 m

To the closest premises mapped as a pub

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is The Woodman, Otford.

Bars, clubs and hotel bars are not counted, and a pub whose trade is mostly food is often mapped as a restaurant instead. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Count of pubs

Representative locationWithin 1 km

2

About a twelve-minute walk

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Bars and clubs are not counted, and a pub that closed can stay on the map for a long time. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Nearest restaurant

Representative locationMapped place

250 m

To the closest sit-down restaurant

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Hilal Restaurant Bar & Terrace.

Takeaways and fast food are excluded. AMEN-FHRS holds every premises registered for food hygiene inspection and is the complete list of places to eat. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Count of restaurants

Representative locationWithin 1 km

3

Sit-down restaurants only

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Takeaways and fast food are excluded, so this is not a count of places to eat. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Nearest cafe

Representative locationMapped place

150 m

To the closest cafe or coffee shop

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Pond View Cafe And Tea Rooms.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Count of cafes

Representative locationWithin 1 km

4

Cafes and coffee shops

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

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Nearest park

Representative locationMapped place

150 m

To the edge of the closest mapped park

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Palace Green.

Measured to the park boundary rather than its middle. Only land tagged as a park: commons, village greens, recreation grounds and playing fields are tagged differently and are not counted. GREEN-OSGS (OS Open Greenspace) is the surveyed national dataset and is the better answer to how much green space there is. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of parks

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Land mapped as a park

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts parks, not area. One large park and four pocket parks are four apart on this figure and nothing like it on the ground. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest playground

Representative locationMapped place

400 m

To the edge of the closest mapped playground

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Includes playgrounds inside school grounds, which are not open to the public. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of playgrounds

Representative locationWithin 1 km

2

Including school playgrounds

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest gym

Representative locationMapped place

2.3 km

To the closest fitness centre

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is PureGym.

Private gyms and fitness centres. Council leisure centres are counted separately. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of gyms

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Fitness centres

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest leisure centre

Representative locationMapped place

3.7 km

To the closest sports centre or leisure centre

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Hollybush Tennis Centre.

Sports halls and leisure centres. Individual pitches, courts and swimming pools are tagged separately and are not counted. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of leisure centres

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Sports and leisure centres

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest library

Representative locationMapped place

450 m

To the closest library building

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Otford Library.

Includes school and university libraries that the public cannot use, and says nothing about opening hours, which for a library is most of the question. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of libraries

Representative locationWithin 1 km

1

Including libraries not open to the public

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest place of worship

Representative locationMapped place

80 m

To the closest building of any religion

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is St Bartholomew's.

Every religion and denomination together, including buildings that are listed and no longer in use. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of places of worship

Representative locationWithin 1 km

3

Every religion together

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest petrol station

Representative locationMapped place

1.6 km

To the closest fuel forecourt

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Sainsbury's.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of petrol stations

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Fuel forecourts

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Nearest mapped electric vehicle (EV) charging station

Representative locationMapped place

2.5 km

To the closest charging site on the map

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Sevenoaks Supercharger.

A charging SITE, not a connector, so a twelve-bay hub counts once. TRANS-EV holds the National Chargepoint Registry, which carries connector counts and speeds that OpenStreetMap does not reliably have. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Count of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations

Representative locationWithin 1 km

0

Charging sites, not connectors

Source period
2026-08-23

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Counts sites. A twelve-bay hub and a single lamp-post charger count the same, and TRANS-EV carries the connector counts and speeds that would separate them. From OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, so this is what has been MAPPED around this postcode rather than what is there. Coverage is uneven and is not surveyed: busy centres are mapped in detail and rural areas frequently are not, so a low figure can mean few mappers as easily as few amenities. Where too little of the surrounding area has been mapped for a zero to mean anything, no figure is shown at all rather than a confident none. OpenStreetMap is a live database seen here as a dated snapshot: somewhere that closed can still be on the map, and somewhere that opened last month may not be on it yet. Distance is straight-line from the middle of the postcode, not a walking route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Source and provenance

OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

AMEN-OSM · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution AND share-alike: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. A rendered report page is a produced work and needs attribution only; any bulk export or API over the derived amenity layer would be a derivative database and could only be distributed under ODbL. · imported 24 August 2026

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Water supplier

Representative locationMapped area

South East Water

The company appointed to supply water to this postcode

Source period
April 2024 (Ofwat v1_5)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

From Ofwat's digitised appointment boundaries (April 2024), which are for analysis rather than the legal record — a property near an edge can be served by the neighbouring company. Where a small new appointment (a NAV) covers a development, that company is named instead of the regional one. New appointments are granted monthly, so a recent development may still show its regional company. Your sewerage provider may be a different company.

Source and provenance

Water and sewerage undertaker boundaries — Ofwat

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-BOUNDARIES · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains Ofwat water and sewerage undertaker boundary data, digitised from the legal appointments by the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) with support from Ordnance Survey. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Wastewater and sewerage provider

Representative locationMapped area

Thames Water

The company appointed to provide sewerage services here

Source period
April 2024 (Ofwat v1_5)

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.

Eleven of the sixteen water companies in England and Wales also provide sewerage; the other five supply water only. So this is frequently a different company from the water supplier, and it is looked up against separate Ofwat boundaries rather than inferred. Analysis boundaries, not the legal record.

Source and provenance

Water and sewerage undertaker boundaries — Ofwat

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-BOUNDARIES · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains Ofwat water and sewerage undertaker boundary data, digitised from the legal appointments by the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) with support from Ordnance Survey. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Water-company leakage performance

Representative locationWater company area

-2.4%

How much your water company has cut leakage since its 2019-20 baseline

Source period
Financial year 2023-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is South East Water had let leakage rise 2.4% against its 2019-20 baseline by 2023-24. Ofwat's target for that year was a reduction of 5.0%, which the company missed. In absolute terms it lost 101 megalitres a day. This is the whole company's network across its entire supply area, not the pipes in this postcode..

A figure for the whole company's network across its entire supply area, not for the pipes in this postcode. It is a percentage change from each company's own 2019-20 baseline rather than an absolute rate, so it says how much a company improved and not how leaky it is; a company that started well has less room to improve. Where leakage rose, the published figure is negative and this is stated in words. Ofwat regulate England and Wales; Scotland has a different regulator and no comparable figure.

Source and provenance

Water Company Performance Report 2023-24 (open data) — Ofwat

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-OFWAT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains Water Company Performance Report data published by Ofwat, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Supply interruptions

Representative locationWater company area

44.74 minutes

Average minutes of water supply lost per property last year, across your water company

Source period
Financial year 2023-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is South East Water: the average property lost 44.7 minutes of supply in 2023-24. That is 15th best of the 16 companies reporting it. Ofwat's target for that year was 5.4 minutes, which the company missed. This describes the whole company across its entire supply area, not this postcode..

An average across every property the company supplies, over a whole year. Most properties lose no supply at all and a few lose it for many hours, so this is not the time any particular household went without water. Only interruptions of three hours or more count towards Ofwat's measure. The company figure is comparable with other companies because Ofwat define it centrally.

Source and provenance

Water Company Performance Report 2023-24 (open data) — Ofwat

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-OFWAT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains Water Company Performance Report data published by Ofwat, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Sewer flooding performance

Representative locationWater company area

1.88 per 10,000 connections

Homes flooded internally by sewage per 10,000 connections, across your sewerage company

Source period
Financial year 2023-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Thames Water: 1.88 homes flooded internally by sewage per 10,000 sewer connections in 2023-24. That is 6th best of the 11 companies reporting it. Ofwat's target for that year was 1.4 per 10,000 connections, which the company missed. This describes the whole company across its entire supply area, not this postcode..

A rate for the whole sewerage company, not a count of flooding near this postcode. It counts sewage entering buildings, which is the most serious category; external flooding of gardens and driveways is a separate and much larger figure that is not shown here. Your sewerage company is often not your water company — five of the sixteen appointed companies supply water only.

Source and provenance

Water Company Performance Report 2023-24 (open data) — Ofwat

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-OFWAT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains Water Company Performance Report data published by Ofwat, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Pollution incidents

Representative locationWater company area

32.12 per 10,000 km

Pollution incidents per 10,000 km of sewer, across your sewerage company

Source period
Financial year 2023-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Thames Water: 32.1 pollution incidents per 10,000 km of sewer in 2023-24. That is 6th best of the 11 companies reporting it. Ofwat's target for that year was 22.4 per 10,000 km of sewer, which the company missed. This describes the whole company across its entire supply area, not this postcode..

A company-wide rate normalised by the length of its sewer network, not a count of incidents anywhere near this postcode. It covers pollution of rivers, lakes and beaches caused by the sewerage system in categories 1 to 3, as counted by the environmental regulator. Storm overflow spills are counted separately and are not included in this figure.

Source and provenance

Water Company Performance Report 2023-24 (open data) — Ofwat

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-OFWAT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains Water Company Performance Report data published by Ofwat, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Customer satisfaction

Representative locationWater company area

70.81 score

Your water company's C-MeX score, Ofwat's customer measure of experience

Source period
Financial year 2023-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is South East Water: scored 70.8 on Ofwat's C-MeX customer measure of experience in 2023-24. That is 14th best of the 16 companies reporting it. This describes the whole company across its entire supply area, not this postcode..

C-MeX combines a survey of randomly sampled customers with a survey of customers who recently contacted the company. It is a company-wide score from a sample of households, not a measure of the service in this postcode, and Ofwat publish no target for it — companies are ranked against each other. Scores are for household customers only; business customers are measured separately.

Source and provenance

Water Company Performance Report 2023-24 (open data) — Ofwat

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-OFWAT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains Water Company Performance Report data published by Ofwat, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Performance against targets

Representative locationWater company area

39.5%

The share of its 2020-25 promises to Ofwat that your water company met

Source period
Financial year 2023-24

Representative-location estimate at TN14 5RA, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is South East Water: met 39% of the performance commitments it agreed with Ofwat for 2020-25 in 2023-24. That is 16th best of the 16 companies reporting it. This describes the whole company across its entire supply area, not this postcode..

Each company agreed its own set of performance commitments with Ofwat at its own levels, so this measures delivery against that company's own promises and is only loosely comparable between companies — a company with easier commitments can achieve more of them. The two customer-experience measures are excluded from the count. Ofwat published a per-commitment met/not-met flag for 2020-21 only, which is why this is a percentage rather than a list.

Source and provenance

Water Company Performance Report 2023-24 (open data) — Ofwat

Method: Reading at the representative postcode.

WATER-OFWAT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Contains Water Company Performance Report data published by Ofwat, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Highest local visitor-to-resident ratio

Published area figureTown or built-up area

0.9

Maximum ratio among the LSOAs within the town

Source period
November 2024 to November 2025

Experimental ONS research using anonymised, aggregated O2 Motion data from November 2024 to November 2025. This is not an official statistic and should not be used for policy or decision making. The maximum can reflect one transport hub or attraction.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Typical local visitor-to-resident ratio

Published area figureTown or built-up area

0.6

Median ratio among the LSOAs within the town

Source period
November 2024 to November 2025

Experimental ONS research using anonymised, aggregated O2 Motion data from November 2024 to November 2025. This is not an official statistic and should not be used for policy or decision making.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Visitor pattern

Published area figureTown or built-up area

more visited visitor to resident profile

ONS profile based on the distribution of local visitor-to-resident quintiles

Source period
November 2024 to November 2025

Experimental ONS research using anonymised, aggregated O2 Motion data from November 2024 to November 2025. This is not an official statistic and should not be used for policy or decision making.

Source and provenance

Understanding towns in England and Wales, investigating socioeconomic trends — Office for National Statistics

Method: Published directly at this geography.

DEMO-ONS-TOWNS · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.