Property market
The five-year median is £116,250 from 2 recorded sales in DH6 1DL. 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.
DH6 1DL
Pittington & Sherburn · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Durham
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH6 1DL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 1
- Latitude
- 54.776216
- Longitude
- -1.504968
- British National Grid easting
- 431,942
- British National Grid northing
- 542,478
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Pittington & Sherburn · E05016189
- Parish or community
- E04010690
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00105196
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 027E · E01020730
- 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 DH6
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Park House Gardens, Sherburn Village, Durham, DH6 1DL | 23 January 2026 | £157,500 |
| 5, Park House Gardens, Sherburn Village, Durham, DH6 1DL | 10 March 2025 | £75,000 |
| 1, Park House Gardens, Sherburn Village, Durham, DH6 1DL | 2 December 2011 | £99,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 1
- 216 m
Sherburn Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
St Thomas More Primary School, Belmont
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 414
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 150
- Anti social behaviour 54
- Criminal damage and arson 44
- Burglary 43
- Vehicle crime 31
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DH6 1 residents
- 6,705
9 female, 3 male
Age bands in DH6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.2%
1,075 residents
671 residents
1,634 residents
1,981 residents
1,445 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH6 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
1.7 km
BELMONT & SHERBURN MEDICAL GROUP
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
1.9 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
3.9 km
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
4.0 km
BOWBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Aged Miners
BCT · Sherburn
- 0.0 miles
Aged Miners
BCT · Sherburn
- 0.1 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Sherburn
- 0.1 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Sherburn
- 0.1 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Sherburn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 027E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,816 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- 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
20 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sherburn Primary School is the nearest published school at 216 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
414 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 150 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.