Property market
The five-year median is £225,000 from 7 recorded sales in DH1 5JU. 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 5JU
Framwellgate & Newton Hall · 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 5JU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2018
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH1
- Postcode sector
- DH1 5
- Latitude
- 54.789862
- Longitude
- -1.582930
- British National Grid easting
- 426,918
- British National Grid northing
- 543,964
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Framwellgate & Newton Hall · E05016178
- Parish or community
- E04012745
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00183264
- 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
32 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Straughan Crescent, Aykley Heads, Durham, DH1 5JU | 7 February 2024 | £218,000 |
| 7, Straughan Crescent, Aykley Heads, Durham, DH1 5JU | 15 December 2023 | £225,000 |
| 12, Straughan Crescent, Aykley Heads, Durham, DH1 5JU | 20 January 2023 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 106 m
Durham Trinity School & Sports College
Community special school
- 747 m
St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham
Academy converter
- 788 m
Framwellgate Moor Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,538
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 943
- Shoplifting 358
- Public order 313
- Anti social behaviour 308
- Criminal damage and arson 176
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- DH1 5 residents
- 14,806
21 female, 27 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH1 5 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 straight-line
CHASTLETON MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
711 m
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
1.6 km
DUNELM MEDICAL PRACTICE
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
3.5 km
BELMONT & SHERBURN MEDICAL GROUP
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
3.5 km
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
3.7 km
SACRISTON MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Happy Wanderer
BCT · Framwellgate Moor
- 0.3 miles
Aykley Heads - for University Hospital
BCT · Durham
- 0.3 miles
Happy Wanderer
BCT · Framwellgate Moor
- 0.3 miles
Dryburn Hospital - old entrance
BCT · Durham
- 0.3 miles
Dryburn Hospital - old entrance
BCT · 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.
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
- 0
- 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
37 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Durham Trinity School & Sports College is the nearest published school at 106 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,538 published events cover 12 months, averaging 211.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 943 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.