Property market
The five-year median is £146,500 from 6 recorded sales in DH7 8JQ. 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 8JQ
Brandon · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Durham
- Ward
- Brandon
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH7 8JQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 8
- Latitude
- 54.756298
- Longitude
- -1.607250
- British National Grid easting
- 425,375
- British National Grid northing
- 540,220
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Brandon · E05016161
- Parish or community
- E04010603
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00104961
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 033I · E01034499
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 033 · E02004315
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
41 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 18, Holliday Close, Langley Moor, Durham, DH7 8JQ | 21 June 2024 | £190,000 |
| 14, Holliday Close, Langley Moor, Durham, DH7 8JQ | 9 February 2024 | £129,950 |
| 23, Holliday Close, Langley Moor, Durham, DH7 8JQ | 22 June 2023 | £134,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 431 m
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Langley Moor
Academy converter
- 463 m
Langley Moor Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 471 m
Langley Moor Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 783
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 290
- Anti social behaviour 133
- Criminal damage and arson 80
- Public order 60
- Shoplifting 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 79
- Postcode households
- 33
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- DH7 8 residents
- 10,521
39 female, 40 male
Age bands in DH7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,706 residents
1,128 residents
2,756 residents
2,951 residents
2,120 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH7 8 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
THE MEDICAL GROUP
ADRIAN CLARK HOUSE, SAWMILLS LANE, MEADOWFIELD, DURHAM, DH7 8NH
ODS code A83022
1.7 km
DUNELM MEDICAL PRACTICE
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
3.5 km
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
3.6 km
CHASTLETON MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Littleburn
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Littleburn
- 0.2 miles
Shops
BCT · Langley Moor
- 0.2 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Langley Moor
- 0.2 miles
Shops
BCT · Langley Moor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 033I, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,567 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Langley Moor is the nearest published school at 431 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
783 published events cover 12 months, averaging 65.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 290 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.