Property market
The five-year median is £220,000 from 7 recorded sales in DH1 5GG. 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 5GG
Sacriston & Witton Gilbert · 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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH1 5GG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH1
- Postcode sector
- DH1 5
- Latitude
- 54.802403
- Longitude
- -1.611378
- British National Grid easting
- 425,081
- British National Grid northing
- 545,349
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Sacriston & Witton Gilbert · E05016190
- Parish or community
- E04010717
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00171856
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 026B · E01020680
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 026 · E02004310
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
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Trinity Mews, Durham, DH1 5GG | 31 March 2025 | £192,500 |
| 1, Trinity Mews, Durham, DH1 5GG | 28 February 2025 | £240,000 |
| Oakhurst, 8, Trinity Mews, Durham, DH1 5GG | 6 March 2023 | £180,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.3 km
New College Durham
Further education
- 1.7 km
Framwellgate Moor Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Witton Gilbert Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 364
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 141
- Shoplifting 57
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Public order 44
- Criminal damage and arson 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH1 5 residents
- 14,806
Age bands in DH1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
2,170 residents
1,252 residents
3,809 residents
4,195 residents
3,509 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.
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CHASTLETON MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
1.7 km
SACRISTON MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
2.2 km
DUNELM MEDICAL PRACTICE
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
2.6 km
BROWNEY HOUSE SURGERY
FRONT STREET, LANGLEY PARK, DURHAM, DH7 9YT
ODS code A83617
3.8 km
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lane Ends
BCT · Sacriston
- 0.1 miles
Lane Ends
BCT · Sacriston
- 0.3 miles
Hospital
BCT · Durham
- 0.3 miles
Hospital
BCT · Durham
- 0.5 miles
Findon Lodge
BCT · Sacriston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 026B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,904 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
33 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 4 secondary schools. New College Durham is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
364 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 141 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.