Property market
The five-year median is £95,000 from 3 recorded sales in DH7 6AL. 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 6AL
Sacriston & Witton Gilbert · 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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH7 6AL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 6
- Latitude
- 54.823678
- Longitude
- -1.632980
- British National Grid easting
- 423,680
- British National Grid northing
- 547,709
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Sacriston & Witton Gilbert · E05016190
- Parish or community
- E04010682
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104615
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 019D · E01020620
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 019 · E02004296
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
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 20, Lingey Close, Sacriston, Durham, DH7 6AL | 23 May 2025 | £85,000 |
| 13, Lingey Close, Sacriston, Durham, DH7 6AL | 10 October 2023 | £130,000 |
| 30, Lingey Close, Sacriston, Durham, DH7 6AL | 6 September 2021 | £95,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 295 m
St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Sacriston
Academy converter
- 892 m
Sacriston Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
Edmondsley Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 664
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 241
- Anti social behaviour 89
- Criminal damage and arson 89
- Shoplifting 79
- Public order 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 49
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- DH7 6 residents
- 8,717
25 female, 24 male
Age bands in DH7 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.9%
1,391 residents
923 residents
2,161 residents
2,412 residents
1,815 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH7 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+
- 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
SACRISTON MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
540 m
BROWNEY HOUSE SURGERY
FRONT STREET, LANGLEY PARK, DURHAM, DH7 9YT
ODS code A83617
3.5 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
3.9 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
4.1 km
CHASTLETON MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
4.3 km
DUNELM MEDICAL PRACTICE
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lingey Close
BCT · Sacriston
- 0.1 miles
Lingey Close
BCT · Sacriston
- 0.2 miles
RC Church
BCT · Sacriston
- 0.2 miles
Cross Lane
BCT · Daisy Hill
- 0.2 miles
RC Church
BCT · Sacriston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 019D, 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
7,949 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 8
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
22 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Sacriston is the nearest published school at 295 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
664 published events cover 12 months, averaging 55.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 241 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.