Property market
The five-year median is £620,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH1 2SQ. 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 2SQ
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 2SQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH1
- Postcode sector
- DH1 2
- Latitude
- 54.767737
- Longitude
- -1.524189
- British National Grid easting
- 430,712
- British National Grid northing
- 541,526
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
- E04012611
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00183225
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 041D · E01020732
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 041 · E02004318
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sherburn House Farm, Durham, DH1 2SQ | 14 February 2024 | £620,000 |
| The Old Steading, Durham, DH1 2SQ | 17 June 2021 | £425,000 |
| Sherburn House Farm, Catbells, Durham, DH1 2SQ | 25 May 2018 | £350,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.7 km
Shincliffe CofE (Controlled) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.8 km
Sherburn Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
St Thomas More Primary School, Belmont
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 568
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 149
- Shoplifting 142
- Anti social behaviour 61
- Criminal damage and arson 50
- Public order 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- DH1 2 residents
- 8,315
6 female, 4 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 0.1% 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
2.0 km
BELMONT & SHERBURN MEDICAL GROUP
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
2.1 km
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
3.0 km
BOWBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
3.5 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Care home
BCT · Sherburn House
- 0.1 miles
Care home
BCT · Sherburn House
- 0.5 miles
Sherburn Grange Farm
BCT · Sherburn Road
- 0.5 miles
Sherburn Grange Farm
BCT · Sherburn Road
- 0.6 miles
Motorway Bridge
BCT · Sherburn Road
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 041D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,488 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Shincliffe CofE (Controlled) Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
568 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 149 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.