Property market
The five-year median is £3,500,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH1 4FW. 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 4FW
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH1 4FW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH1
- Postcode sector
- DH1 4
- Latitude
- 54.779685
- Longitude
- -1.579054
- British National Grid easting
- 427,174
- British National Grid northing
- 542,833
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
- E04012745
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00183273
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 033B · E01020702
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 033 · E02004315
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| One Milburngate, Milburngate, Durham, DH1 4FW | 27 July 2023 | £3,500,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 385 m
Durham Sixth Form Centre
Academy 16-19 converter
- 656 m
St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham
Academy converter
- 937 m
Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,305
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,133
- Shoplifting 604
- Anti social behaviour 365
- Public order 355
- Criminal damage and arson 206
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH1 4 residents
- 9,002
Age bands in DH1 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 47.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 15.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.6%
849 residents
4,231 residents
1,320 residents
1,415 residents
1,123 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
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
772 m
CHASTLETON MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
1.9 km
BELMONT & SHERBURN MEDICAL GROUP
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
3.4 km
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
3.5 km
DUNELM MEDICAL PRACTICE
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
3.7 km
THE MEDICAL GROUP
ADRIAN CLARK HOUSE, SAWMILLS LANE, MEADOWFIELD, DURHAM, DH7 8NH
ODS code A83022
4.7 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
Railway Station
BCT · Durham
- 0.1 miles
Radisson Hotel Waterside
BCT · Durham
- 0.1 miles
Durham Rail Station
RSE · Durham
- 0.1 miles
Durham Rail Station
RLY · Durham
- 0.1 miles
Durham Rail Station
RSE · Durham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 033B, 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
33,161 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
37 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Durham Sixth Form Centre is the nearest published school at 385 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,305 published events cover 12 months, averaging 275.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,133 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.