Property market
The five-year median is £360,000 from 3 recorded sales in DH2 1AY. 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.
DH2 1AY
North Lodge · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chester Le Street
- Ward
- North Lodge
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH2
- Postcode sector
- DH2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH2 1AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH2
- Postcode sector
- DH2 1
- Latitude
- 54.874218
- Longitude
- -1.585692
- British National Grid easting
- 426,685
- British National Grid northing
- 553,350
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- North Lodge · E05016186
- Parish or community
- E04010673
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104570
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 007E · E01020612
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 007 · E02004292
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 DH2
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Third Avenue, Unit 33a, Drum Industrial Estate, Chester Le Street, DH2 1AY | 31 July 2025 | £360,000 |
| Third Avenue, Unit 32, Drum Industrial Estate, Chester Le Street, DH2 1AY | 22 August 2024 | £235,000 |
| Third Avenue, Unit 30, Drum Industrial Estate, Chester Le Street, DH2 1AY | 7 December 2021 | £1,800,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.1 km
Pelton Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
St Benet's Catholic Primary School, Ouston
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Chester-Le-Street CofE (Controlled) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,061
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 367
- Anti social behaviour 196
- Criminal damage and arson 177
- Public order 67
- Other theft 51
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH2 1 residents
- 10,157
Age bands in DH2 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
1,576 residents
1,032 residents
2,511 residents
3,269 residents
2,432 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
11
within 5 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
1.2 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
1.8 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
2.1 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
2.2 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
2.4 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
2.5 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
2.6 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
3.6 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
4.4 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
4.4 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Mysons
BCT · Drum Industrial Estate
- 0.2 miles
Mysons
BCT · Drum Industrial Estate
- 0.4 miles
North Lodge Estate
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.6 miles
Conyers Avenue - Pelaw Road
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.6 miles
Conyers Avenue - Pelaw Road
BCT · Chester-le-Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 007E, 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
31,093 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. Pelton Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,061 published events cover 12 months, averaging 88.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 367 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.