Property market
The five-year median is £55,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH7 6AP. 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 6AP
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 6AP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2002
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 6
- Latitude
- 54.825378
- Longitude
- -1.630552
- British National Grid easting
- 423,835
- British National Grid northing
- 547,899
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
- E00104612
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lealholm, Edmondsley Lane, Sacriston, Durham, DH7 6AP | 10 December 2021 | £55,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 396 m
St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Sacriston
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Sacriston Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Edmondsley Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 627
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 221
- Anti social behaviour 87
- Criminal damage and arson 81
- Shoplifting 79
- Public order 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH7 6 residents
- 8,717
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
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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
SACRISTON MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
656 m
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
3.6 km
BROWNEY HOUSE SURGERY
FRONT STREET, LANGLEY PARK, DURHAM, DH7 9YT
ODS code A83617
3.8 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
3.9 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
4.7 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Cross Lane
BCT · Daisy Hill
- 0.1 miles
Lingey Close
BCT · Sacriston
- 0.1 miles
Cross Lane
BCT · Daisy Hill
- 0.1 miles
Ashford Drive
BCT · Sacriston
- 0.1 miles
Lingey Close
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.
Evidence in context
Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Sacriston is the nearest published school at 396 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
627 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 221 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.