Property market
The five-year median is £166,000 from 2 recorded sales in DH1 2FW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for County Durham is £138,148 in June 2026, up 7.0% year on year.
DH1 2FW
Elvet, Gilesgate & Shincliffe · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Durham
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DH1
- Postcode sector
- DH1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH1 2FW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH1
- Postcode sector
- DH1 2
- Latitude
- 54.772392
- Longitude
- -1.540347
- British National Grid easting
- 429,669
- British National Grid northing
- 542,037
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Elvet, Gilesgate & Shincliffe · E05016175
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00105159
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 029D · E01020724
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 029 · E02004313
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DH1
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Catley Mews, Durham, DH1 2FW | 6 June 2025 | £262,000 |
| 22, Catley Mews, Durham, DH1 2FW | 27 March 2025 | £70,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 759 m
Laurel Avenue Community Primary School
Community school
- 831 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate
Academy converter
- 877 m
St Hild's College Church of England Primary School, Durham
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,675
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 462
- Violence and sexual offences 393
- Anti social behaviour 198
- Criminal damage and arson 152
- Public order 120
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH1 2 residents
- 8,315
Age bands in DH1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.1%
1,234 residents
1,099 residents
1,851 residents
2,006 residents
2,077 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
BELMONT & SHERBURN MEDICAL GROUP
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
1.7 km
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
1.7 km
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
1.9 km
CHASTLETON MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
4.0 km
BOWBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
4.1 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Dragon Lane End
BCT · Sherburn Road
- 0.2 miles
Dragon Lane End
BCT · Sherburn Road
- 0.3 miles
Dragon Lane Retail Park
BCT · Gilesgate Moor
- 0.3 miles
Bingo
BCT · Sherburn Road
- 0.3 miles
Motorway Bridge
BCT · Sherburn Road
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 029D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,376 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Laurel Avenue Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 759 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,675 published events cover 12 months, averaging 139.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 462 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.