Property market
The five-year median is £182,000 from 7 recorded sales in DH1 2LD. 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 2LD
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 2LD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH1
- Postcode sector
- DH1 2
- Latitude
- 54.778833
- Longitude
- -1.549415
- British National Grid easting
- 429,081
- British National Grid northing
- 542,750
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
- E00105167
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 029C · E01020723
- 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
42 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 34, The Moorlands, Durham, DH1 2LD | 3 June 2026 | £220,000 |
| 28, The Moorlands, Durham, DH1 2LD | 1 December 2023 | £182,000 |
| 60, The Moorlands, Durham, DH1 2LD | 12 January 2023 | £220,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 199 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate
Academy converter
- 324 m
Laurel Avenue Community Primary School
Community school
- 336 m
St Hild's College Church of England Primary School, Durham
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,129
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 573
- Shoplifting 508
- Anti social behaviour 258
- Criminal damage and arson 177
- Public order 161
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 73
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- DH1 2 residents
- 8,315
35 female, 38 male
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
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
1.1 km
BELMONT & SHERBURN MEDICAL GROUP
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
1.6 km
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
1.7 km
CHASTLETON MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
3.1 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.6 km
BOWBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
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
- 0.1 miles
Sunderland Road Musgrave Gardens
BCT · Gilesgate Moor
- 0.1 miles
Moorlands
BCT · Sherburn Road
- 0.1 miles
Moorlands
BCT · Sherburn Road
- 0.1 miles
Hare and Hounds Veterinary Centre
BCT · Gilesgate Moor
- 0.1 miles
Edward Street
BCT · Gilesgate Moor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 029C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,496 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 7
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate is the nearest published school at 199 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,129 published events cover 12 months, averaging 177.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 573 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.