Property market
The five-year median is £155,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH3 4HD. 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 4HD
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 4HD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 4
- Latitude
- 54.847621
- Longitude
- -1.539043
- British National Grid easting
- 429,698
- British National Grid northing
- 550,409
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
- E04010635
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104555
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 015C · E01020608
- 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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Pear Tree Terrace, Castle Dene, Chester Le Street, DH3 4HD | 1 November 2023 | £155,000 |
| 5, Pear Tree Terrace, Castle Dene, Chester Le Street, DH3 4HD | 14 December 2018 | £255,000 |
| 5, Pear Tree Terrace, Castle Dene, Chester Le Street, DH3 4HD | 27 November 2009 | £182,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 4
- 904 m
Lumley Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Lumley Junior School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Woodlea Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 304
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 118
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Burglary 24
- Vehicle crime 16
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- DH3 4 residents
- 5,901
3 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH3 4 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+
- 0%
- 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
1.2 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
2.4 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
2.6 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
3.3 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
3.5 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
3.7 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
3.8 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
3.8 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
3.9 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
4.1 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
4.6 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.6 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Castle Dene
BCT · Great Lumley
- 0.0 miles
Castle Dene
BCT · Great Lumley
- 0.1 miles
Scorers Lane End
BCT · Great Lumley
- 0.1 miles
Scorers Lane End
BCT · Great Lumley
- 0.3 miles
Road End
BCT · Lumley Thicks
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 015C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,092 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
33 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 4 secondary schools. Lumley Infant and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 904 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
304 published events cover 12 months, averaging 25.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 118 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.