Property market
The five-year median is £245,998 from 18 recorded sales in DH3 2BP. 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.
DH3 2BP
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
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH3 2BP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2018
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 2
- Latitude
- 54.878293
- Longitude
- -1.571375
- British National Grid easting
- 427,601
- British National Grid northing
- 553,809
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
- E00183300
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 007D · E01020611
- 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 DH3
Property
69 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 46a, Wanstead Crescent, Chester Le Street, DH3 2BP | 13 February 2026 | £280,000 |
| 2, Wanstead Crescent, Chester Le Street, DH3 2BP | 13 February 2026 | £450,000 |
| 118, Wanstead Crescent, Chester Le Street, DH3 2BP | 13 June 2025 | £126,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 49
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 7
- 674 m
Barley Mow Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Portobello Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Rickleton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 656
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 201
- Anti social behaviour 121
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Vehicle crime 61
- Public order 47
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 146
- Postcode households
- 56
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- DH3 2 residents
- 6,298
77 female, 69 male
Age bands in DH3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
944 residents
597 residents
1,495 residents
1,632 residents
1,376 residents
This postcode contained 2.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH3 2 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.
GP practices
15
within 5 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
1.5 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
1.5 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
2.1 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
2.1 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
2.5 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
2.6 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
3.4 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
3.4 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
3.4 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
3.4 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
4.8 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
4.9 km
CONCORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89022
4.9 km
NEW WASHINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89026
4.9 km
THE STEPHENSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89010
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Vigo Lane-Bedford Avenue
BCT · Barley Mow
- 0.1 miles
Vigo Lane - Durham Road
BCT · Barley Mow
- 0.1 miles
Bedford Avenue-Cumberland Place
BCT · Barley Mow
- 0.1 miles
Bedford Avenue-Cumberland Place
BCT · Barley Mow
- 0.2 miles
Vigo Lane-Cumberland Place
BCT · Barley Mow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 007D, 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
30,647 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 7
- Medium risk addresses
- 9
- Low risk addresses
- 14
- 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
49 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 7 secondary schools. Barley Mow Primary School is the nearest published school at 674 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
656 published events cover 12 months, averaging 54.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 201 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.