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Primary school results beat 92% of towns in England. With 3,241 residents, it is a town in Kent, South East.
A solid town with one catch. Its strongest is jobs & income (A) — the mean household earns £66,767 a year. It also does well on health — life expectancy 83.3 for men, 85.3 for women. The catch is cost of living (C): the median home sold for £412,500, 6 years of area income. Hazard risk is higher than most (C−): 2.4% of homes face a high or medium risk of river or sea flooding. Put together, the subjects come to an A− overall, ranking #6 of 87 in Kent. Set against the rest, it does better than 84% of UK towns.
Figures: income and life expectancy, ONS · claimants, DWP · prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · flood risk, Environment Agency.
The 3 things Dunton Green does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Dunton Green is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Historic England lists 2 buildings inside Dunton Green’s built-up area.
17% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dunton Green.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Grade II covers all 2 listed buildings that Historic England records here. Listed buildings per head: 6 for every 10,000 residents of Dunton Green. Also worth knowing: homes from before 1919 make up 17% of the total, below Kent’s towns (19%) and close to England’s towns (16%).
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Key Stage 2 results at the 9 primary schools within 3 km: 72% of pupils meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (three-year average). Below is its only school. Attainment 8 at the 2 secondary schools within 3 km averages 45.1, and two in five pupils get grade 5 or above in English and maths.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunton Green Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 160 | D |
87% of Dunton Green’s residents described their health as good or very good at the census, above both Kent’s towns (82%) and England’s towns (82%). Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 3% of the town. Seeing a GP means leaving Dunton Green: the nearest practice is 1 miles away. Women here live to 85.3 on average and men to 83.3 (2019–23).
| Census 2021 | Dunton Green | Kent | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 87% | 82% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 3% | 5.1% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 12% | 18% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Because the census answers ignore age, a younger population lifts them; that is why the Health Grade is built on age-adjusted measures like life expectancy and early deaths.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 47% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
About 2% of its commuters stay in Dunton Green for work. 47% of workers worked mainly from home, above both Kent’s towns (30%) and England’s towns (31%). There are 0.3 jobs in Dunton Green for each resident in work.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
The median sale, £412,500, comes from 178 standard sales inside Dunton Green’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Private rents average £1,809 a month across the Sevenoaks council area. 14% live in social housing, about level with Kent’s towns (14%) and below England’s towns (18%).
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £780,000 | 15 |
| Semi-detached | £533,500 | 24 |
| Terraced | £525,000 | 61 |
| Flat or maisonette | £305,500 | 78 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
The 12 months to August 2026 brought 109 recorded crimes inside Dunton Green’s built-up area, and 29 reports of anti-social behaviour. Violence and sexual offences accounted for 50% of recorded crime. Homes saw 11.8 burglaries and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year, near Kent’s towns (12.3) and higher than England’s towns (9.4).
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
Just over two in five adults hold a degree, above both Kent’s towns (29%) and England’s towns (34%). People aged 15 to 24 are 7.8% of the population. Dunton Green has a median age of 36.3 years.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Dunton Green | Kent | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 7.8% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 36% | 25% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 26% | 25% |
| 65+ | 12% | 19% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 13% | 18% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 4.7% | 5.7% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 42% | 29% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Kent and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Dunton Green. Best known first.
Historic house · National TrustKnole House3.4 km outside town, to the southeast
Historic houseCombe Bank School3.1 km outside town, to the westMuseumMuseumShoreham Aircraft Museum3.9 km outside town, to the northMuseumMuseumSevenoaks Museum2.5 km outside town, to the southeastMuseumMuseumOtford Heritage Centre1.9 km outside town, to the northeastArt galleryArt gallerySevenoaks Kaleidoscope Art Gallery2.5 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunton Green | 3,241 | — | A− | C | B | A |
| Sevenoaks | 26,474 | 1.1 | A− | D | B− | A |
| Otford and Kemsing | 7,332 | 1.8 | A | D | B+ | A+ |
| Sundridge | 1,190 | 2.1 | — | C− | C | A |
| Seal | 1,616 | 2.2 | — | D | B+ | B |
| Westerham | 3,390 | 4.6 | B | C− | C− | A |
| Ightham | 2,037 | 4.9 | — | D | A+ | A |
| West Kingsdown | 4,306 | 5.3 | B− | C | B | B |
Sundridge, Seal and Ightham have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
A young town. At the 2021 Census, 21% of residents were under 15 and 36% were 25 to 44, against 18% and 27% across England’s towns; only 12% were 65 or over.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Homes cost more than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £412,500, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: flats £305,500, terraced houses £525,000, semi-detached houses £533,500 and detached houses £780,000.
Town in Kent, England
Dunton Green is a built-up area of 3,241 people, in the Sevenoaks council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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