Property market
The five-year median is £351,495 from 11 recorded sales in DH3 4ED. 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 4ED
Lumley & West Rainton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chester Le Street
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH3 4ED
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 4
- Latitude
- 54.858149
- Longitude
- -1.533346
- British National Grid easting
- 430,056
- British National Grid northing
- 551,583
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Lumley & West Rainton · E05016183
- Parish or community
- E04010599
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104455
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 015B · E01020591
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 015 · E02004295
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
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Chartershaugh Square, Lambton Park, Chester Le Street, DH3 4ED | 29 September 2025 | £279,995 |
| 14, Chartershaugh Square, Lambton Park, Chester Le Street, DH3 4ED | 13 August 2025 | £374,995 |
| 15, Chartershaugh Square, Lambton Park, Chester Le Street, DH3 4ED | 1 August 2025 | £394,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 43
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.1 km
Bournmoor Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Woodlea Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Lumley Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 217
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 63
- Anti social behaviour 47
- Criminal damage and arson 45
- Burglary 24
- Public order 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH3 4 residents
- 5,901
Age bands in DH3 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 29%
819 residents
518 residents
1,082 residents
1,679 residents
1,671 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+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 90%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90%
- 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
16
within 5 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
2.4 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
2.4 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
2.6 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
2.6 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
2.6 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
2.6 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
2.6 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
3.3 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
3.8 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
4.2 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
4.5 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
4.5 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
4.5 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
4.7 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
4.8 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
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
- 0.5 miles
Road End - The Meadows
BCT · Bournmoor
- 0.5 miles
Road End - The Meadows
BCT · Bournmoor
- 0.5 miles
Ellesmere
BCT · Bournmoor
- 0.6 miles
Church
BCT · Bournmoor
- 0.6 miles
Ellesmere
BCT · Bournmoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 015B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,957 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 7 secondary schools. Bournmoor 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
217 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 63 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.