Property market
The five-year median is £520,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH3 1LY. 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 1LY
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 1LY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 1
- Latitude
- 54.900168
- Longitude
- -1.577083
- British National Grid easting
- 427,220
- British National Grid northing
- 556,241
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
- E00041429
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 026C · E01008174
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 026 · E02001707
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Croft, Durham Road, Birtley, Chester Le Street, DH3 1LY | 17 September 2021 | £520,000 |
| The Highlands, Durham Road, Birtley, Chester Le Street, DH3 1LY | 4 April 2019 | £965,000 |
| The Highlands, Durham Road, Birtley, Chester Le Street, DH3 1LY | 8 August 2018 | £958,082 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 58
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 8
- 170 m
St Joseph's Catholic Infant School, Birtley
Academy converter
- 590 m
Ravensworth Terrace Primary School
Community school
- 692 m
Birtley East Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 904
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 289
- Anti social behaviour 157
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Burglary 62
- Vehicle crime 62
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH3 1 residents
- 8,378
11 female, 11 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 0.3% 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
15
within 5 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
922 m
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
2.9 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
2.9 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
2.9 km
WREKENTON MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, WREKENTON, GATESHEAD, NE9 7AD
ODS code A85016
3.0 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
3.4 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
3.6 km
CONCORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89022
3.7 km
NEW WASHINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89026
3.7 km
THE STEPHENSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89010
3.7 km
BEACON VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
6 BEACON LOUGH ROAD, BEACON LOUGH, GATESHEAD, NE9 6YS
ODS code A85026
3.7 km
FELL TOWER MEDICAL CENTRE
575-583 DURHAM ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE9 5EY
ODS code A85001
4.1 km
FELL COTTAGE SURGERY
123 KELLS LANE, LOW FELL, GATESHEAD, NE9 5XY
ODS code A85007
4.4 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
4.6 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
5.0 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
- 0.0 miles
Durham Road-Fire Station
BCT · Birtley
- 0.1 miles
Durham Road-Fire Station
BCT · Birtley
- 0.1 miles
Durham Road-Croftside
BCT · Birtley
- 0.2 miles
Durham Road-Ridgeway
BCT · Birtley
- 0.2 miles
Mount Pleasant Road
BCT · Birtley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 026C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,161 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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
- 1
- 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
58 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 8 secondary schools. St Joseph's Catholic Infant School, Birtley is the nearest published school at 170 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
904 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 289 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.