Property market
The five-year median is £97,000 from 11 recorded sales in DH3 1JZ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Gateshead is £158,254 in June 2026, up 7.8% year on year.
DH3 1JZ
Birtley North & Lamesley · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chester Le Street
- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH3 1JZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 1
- Latitude
- 54.904022
- Longitude
- -1.579398
- British National Grid easting
- 427,069
- British National Grid northing
- 556,669
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Birtley North & Lamesley · E05016545
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South · E14001567
- Output area
- E00041695
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 025B · E01008223
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 025 · E02001706
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 DH3
Property
89 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 25, Glamis Villas, Birtley, Chester Le Street, DH3 1JZ | 8 December 2025 | £120,000 |
| 49, Glamis Villas, Birtley, Chester Le Street, DH3 1JZ | 11 November 2025 | £120,000 |
| 45, Glamis Villas, Birtley, Chester Le Street, DH3 1JZ | 22 November 2024 | £112,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 60
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 8
- 410 m
Birtley East Community Primary School
Community school
- 575 m
St Joseph's Catholic Infant School, Birtley
Academy converter
- 940 m
Ravensworth Terrace Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 867
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 282
- Anti social behaviour 152
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Other theft 59
- Burglary 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 66
- Postcode households
- 44
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- DH3 1 residents
- 8,378
38 female, 28 male
Age bands in DH3 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
1,590 residents
874 residents
2,326 residents
2,165 residents
1,443 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH3 1 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
17
within 5 km straight-line
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
1.4 km
WREKENTON MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, WREKENTON, GATESHEAD, NE9 7AD
ODS code A85016
2.6 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
3.1 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
3.1 km
BEACON VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
6 BEACON LOUGH ROAD, BEACON LOUGH, GATESHEAD, NE9 6YS
ODS code A85026
3.2 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
3.3 km
CONCORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89022
3.6 km
NEW WASHINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89026
3.6 km
THE STEPHENSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89010
3.6 km
FELL TOWER MEDICAL CENTRE
575-583 DURHAM ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE9 5EY
ODS code A85001
3.7 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
3.8 km
FELL COTTAGE SURGERY
123 KELLS LANE, LOW FELL, GATESHEAD, NE9 5XY
ODS code A85007
3.9 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
4.0 km
LONGRIGG MEDICAL CENTRE
2 LONGRIGG, LEAM LANE ESTATE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 8PH
ODS code A85004
4.9 km
CROWHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85009
4.9 km
ST. ALBANS MEDICAL GROUP
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85011
4.9 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Durham Road-Windsor Road
BCT · Birtley
- 0.1 miles
Durham Road-Windsor Road
BCT · Birtley
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Road
BCT · Birtley
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Road
BCT · Birtley
- 0.1 miles
Durham Road-Ridgeway
BCT · Birtley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 025B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,641 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 4
- Low risk addresses
- 13
- 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
60 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 8 secondary schools. Birtley East Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 410 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
867 published events cover 12 months, averaging 72.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 282 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.