Property market
The five-year median is £160,000 from 5 recorded sales in DH6 5DD. 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 5DD
Bowburn & Coxhoe · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Durham
- Ward
- Bowburn & Coxhoe
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH6 5DD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 5
- Latitude
- 54.741067
- Longitude
- -1.517946
- British National Grid easting
- 431,134
- British National Grid northing
- 538,561
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Bowburn & Coxhoe · E05016160
- Parish or community
- E04012610
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105024
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 044A · E01020695
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 044 · E02004319
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
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Leyland Close, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5DD | 18 March 2026 | £195,000 |
| 32, Leyland Close, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5DD | 21 August 2025 | £115,000 |
| 1, Leyland Close, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5DD | 28 March 2025 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 796 m
Bowburn Primary School
Academy converter
- 860 m
Strawberry Lane
Other independent special school
- 2.1 km
Shincliffe CofE (Controlled) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 560
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 202
- Anti social behaviour 114
- Criminal damage and arson 62
- Shoplifting 51
- Public order 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 75
- Postcode households
- 35
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- DH6 5 residents
- 5,856
39 female, 36 male
Age bands in DH6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
1,002 residents
559 residents
1,827 residents
1,606 residents
1,073 residents
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH6 5 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+
- 97.1%
- 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
4
within 5 km
BOWBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
804 m
COXHOE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 LANSDOWNE ROAD, COXHOE, DURHAM, DH6 4DH
ODS code A83027
3.1 km
WEST CORNFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
READING STREET, WEST CORNFORTH, FERRYHILL, DL17 9LH
ODS code A83634
4.2 km
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Bowburn Hall
BCT · Bowburn
- 0.1 miles
Bowburn Hall
BCT · Bowburn
- 0.2 miles
Tail upon End Lane
BCT · Bowburn
- 0.2 miles
Philip Avenue
BCT · Bowburn
- 0.2 miles
Cassop Grange
BCT · Bowburn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 044A, 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
15,288 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
16 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. Bowburn Primary School is the nearest published school at 796 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
560 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 202 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.