Property market
The five-year median is £228,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH7 0RF. 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.
DH7 0RF
Lanchester & Burnhope · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Durham
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH7 0RF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 0
- Latitude
- 54.823126
- Longitude
- -1.771316
- British National Grid easting
- 414,792
- British National Grid northing
- 547,610
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Lanchester & Burnhope · E05016180
- Parish or community
- E04010655
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104856
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 020B · E01020664
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 020 · E02004306
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 DH7
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Middle Newbiggen Farmhouse, Newbiggen Lane, Lanchester, Durham, DH7 0RF | 17 October 2023 | £228,000 |
| Swallow Cottage, Newbiggen Lane, Lanchester, Durham, DH7 0RF | 24 May 2021 | £360,000 |
| Mill House, Newbiggen Lane, Lanchester, Durham, DH7 0RF | 25 October 2017 | £372,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.5 km
All Saints' Catholic Primary School, Lanchester
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Lanchester Endowed Parochial Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.7 km
St Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Lanchester
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 24
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 16
- Drugs 2
- Public order 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 28
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- DH7 0 residents
- 5,727
18 female, 10 male
Age bands in DH7 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 28%
977 residents
434 residents
1,147 residents
1,646 residents
1,634 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH7 0 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+
- 75%
- 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
LANCHESTER MEDICAL CENTRE
DURHAM ROAD, LANCHESTER, DURHAM, DH7 0LP
ODS code A83072
2.1 km
THE HAVEN SURGERY
THE HAVEN, BURNHOPE, DURHAM, DH7 0BD
ODS code A83622
3.8 km
ANNFIELD PLAIN SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7TD
ODS code A83644
4.4 km
DRS LAMBERT & NG
WEST ROAD SURGERY, 9 WEST ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7XT
ODS code A83073
4.4 km
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
4.7 km
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Yeckhouse Lane
BCT · Lanchester
- 0.7 miles
Yeckhouse Lane
BCT · Lanchester
- 0.8 miles
Hollinside
BCT · Lanchester
- 0.9 miles
Hollinside
BCT · Lanchester
- 0.9 miles
Durham Road
BCT · Lanchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 020B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,598 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
10 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. All Saints' Catholic Primary School, Lanchester is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
24 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 16 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.