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South East

Dartford

7th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 2,560 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.
NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)

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Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Dartford yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
112/543
health
308/543
income
313/543
housing
121/543
education
359/543
employment
364/543
environment
336/543

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Identified resource gaps

crime MODERATE
Rank 112/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
housing LOW
Rank 121/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
222 housing-focused charities, 4026 employees

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

4634 registered charities

4,634
Charities
£40,165,227
Grants to HQ'd charities
25,602
Employees
112,862
Volunteers
14.5%
Govt funded
LOW
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

MARY MASTERS
ELIZABETH ANN FORREST
UNKNOWN DONOR
GEORGE SMEED FOR COAL AND BREAD
THOMAS STANLEY
BETENSONS ALMSHOUSES MAINTENANCE FUND
SARA GODFREY
THE SHORNE CHARITY OF SIR THOMAS SMYTHE FOR THE POOR
FORDWICH TOWN TRUST
SIDNEY AND LILIAN HOWLAND TRUST (C.H.) N0 2 ACCOUNT

GP and primary care

9
GP practices
54
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,560
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 360 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Dartford, by sector

Sector Employees
Transport 8,430
Construction 8,300
NHS / Healthcare 8,000
Education 3,000
Social Care 1,950
Environment / Green 750

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

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