Property market
The five-year median is £902,500 from 1 recorded sale in DH6 2QB. 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 2QB
Easington & Shotton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Durham
- Ward
- Easington & Shotton
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH6 2QB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 2
- Latitude
- 54.751334
- Longitude
- -1.376771
- British National Grid easting
- 440,213
- British National Grid northing
- 539,775
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Easington & Shotton · E05016174
- Parish or community
- E04010693
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105350
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 034B · E01020761
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 034 · E02004326
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Edder Acres Farm Cottage, Shotton Colliery, Durham, DH6 2QB | 24 January 2022 | £902,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.5 km
The Academy at Shotton Hall
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Shotton Hall Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Shotton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 924
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 278
- Violence and sexual offences 244
- Criminal damage and arson 130
- Anti social behaviour 112
- Public order 47
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- DH6 2 residents
- 9,636
2 female, 3 male
Age bands in DH6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
1,602 residents
997 residents
2,255 residents
2,606 residents
1,658 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH6 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.
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
1.3 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
1.5 km
EAST DURHAM MEDICAL GROUP
THE CARADOC SURGERY, FRONT STREET WEST, WINGATE, TS28 5PZ
ODS code A83057
2.9 km
WINGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE INTRAHEALTH
FRONT STREET WEST, WINGATE, TS28 5PZ
ODS code A83610
2.9 km
WILLIAM BROWN CENTRE
MANOR WAY, PETERLEE, SR8 5TW
ODS code A83012
3.0 km
THE HORDEN GROUP PRACTICE
SEA VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, FOURTH STREET, HORDEN, PETERLEE, SR8 4LD
ODS code A83044
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Turning Circle
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.5 miles
Birchwood
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.5 miles
Station Industrial Estate
BCT · Shotton Colliery
- 0.5 miles
Station Industrial Estate
BCT · Shotton Colliery
- 0.6 miles
Swan Road
BCT · Peterlee
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 034B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,103 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
36 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Academy at Shotton Hall is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
924 published events cover 12 months, averaging 77 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 278 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.