Property market
The five-year median is £75,000 from 3 recorded sales in DH4 6SW. 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.
DH4 6SW
Lumley & West Rainton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Houghton Le Spring
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH4 6SW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 6
- Latitude
- 54.815609
- Longitude
- -1.497563
- British National Grid easting
- 432,387
- British National Grid northing
- 546,865
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
- E04010710
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00105180
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 027B · E01020726
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 027 · E02004311
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 DH4
Property
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Chantry House, 6, Benridge Bank, West Rainton, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 6SW | 26 September 2025 | £80,000 |
| Chantry House, 6, Benridge Bank, West Rainton, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 6SW | 1 October 2024 | £75,000 |
| Chantry House, 2, Benridge Bank, West Rainton, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 6SW | 18 August 2021 | £63,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 3
- 875 m
West Rainton Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
East Rainton Primary School
Community school
- 2.4 km
Hetton Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 320
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 130
- Criminal damage and arson 50
- Anti social behaviour 44
- Other theft 25
- Public order 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.2
- DH4 6 residents
- 10,516
4 female, 3 male
Age bands in DH4 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
1,831 residents
1,114 residents
2,770 residents
2,871 residents
1,961 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH4 6 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+
- 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
692 m
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
3.3 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
3.5 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
3.5 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
3.8 km
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
3.8 km
BELMONT & SHERBURN MEDICAL GROUP
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Benridge Bank-The Meadows
BCT · West Rainton
- 0.1 miles
Rainton Lodge
BCT · West Rainton
- 0.1 miles
Benridge Bank
BCT · West Rainton
- 0.1 miles
Benridge Bank
BCT · West Rainton
- 0.2 miles
South Street
BCT · West Rainton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 027B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,097 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
30 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. West Rainton Primary School is the nearest published school at 875 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
320 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 130 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.