Property market
The five-year median is £111,000 from 6 recorded sales in DH7 7LB. 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 7LB
Deerness · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Durham
- Ward
- Deerness
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH7 7LB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 7
- Latitude
- 54.778885
- Longitude
- -1.643397
- British National Grid easting
- 423,036
- British National Grid northing
- 542,721
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Deerness · E05016171
- Parish or community
- E04010603
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00105117
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 026E · E01020716
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 026 · E02004310
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
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 25, Hunter Avenue, Ushaw Moor, Durham, DH7 7LB | 16 October 2025 | £107,000 |
| 3, Hunter Avenue, Ushaw Moor, Durham, DH7 7LB | 22 September 2025 | £105,000 |
| 27, Hunter Avenue, Ushaw Moor, Durham, DH7 7LB | 27 October 2023 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 153 m
Silver Tree Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 193 m
Our Lady & St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Ushaw Moor
Academy converter
- 476 m
Durham Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 858
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 368
- Anti social behaviour 156
- Criminal damage and arson 93
- Shoplifting 59
- Public order 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 92
- Postcode households
- 35
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- DH7 7 residents
- 8,123
46 female, 46 male
Age bands in DH7 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
1,457 residents
867 residents
2,236 residents
2,277 residents
1,453 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH7 7 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
DUNELM MEDICAL PRACTICE
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
689 m
BROWNEY HOUSE SURGERY
FRONT STREET, LANGLEY PARK, DURHAM, DH7 9YT
ODS code A83617
2.9 km
THE MEDICAL GROUP
ADRIAN CLARK HOUSE, SAWMILLS LANE, MEADOWFIELD, DURHAM, DH7 8NH
ODS code A83022
3.5 km
CHASTLETON MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
4.1 km
SACRISTON MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
4.6 km
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
4.9 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
Flass Inn
BCT · Ushaw Moor
- 0.1 miles
Methodist Church
BCT · Ushaw Moor
- 0.1 miles
Flass Inn
BCT · Ushaw Moor
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Court
BCT · Ushaw Moor
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Court
BCT · Ushaw Moor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 026E, 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
2,653 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
33 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Silver Tree Primary School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 153 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
858 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 368 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.