Property market
The five-year median is £125,000 from 6 recorded sales in DH7 9BA. 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 9BA
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH7 9BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 9
- Latitude
- 54.758809
- Longitude
- -1.735067
- British National Grid easting
- 417,148
- British National Grid northing
- 540,461
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
- E00105067
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 031B · E01020706
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 031 · E02004316
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
48 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Hedley Hill Terrace, Waterhouses, Durham, DH7 9BA | 22 March 2024 | £130,000 |
| 28, Hedley Hill Terrace, Waterhouses, Durham, DH7 9BA | 16 February 2024 | £130,000 |
| 14, Hedley Hill Terrace, Waterhouses, Durham, DH7 9BA | 21 October 2022 | £120,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.0 km
Esh Winning Academy
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
Stanley (Crook) Primary School
Community school
- 2.5 km
The Independent Grammar School:Durham
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 44
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Other theft 4
- Burglary 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 61
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DH7 9 residents
- 9,652
35 female, 26 male
Age bands in DH7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,527 residents
892 residents
2,184 residents
2,834 residents
2,056 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH7 9 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+
- 16.7%
- 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
1
within 5 km
NORTH HOUSE SURGERY
HOPE STREET, CROOK, DL15 9HU
ODS code A83020
4.7 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
Hedley Hill Terrace
BCT · Waterhouses
- 0.1 miles
Hedley Hill Terrace
BCT · Waterhouses
- 0.2 miles
Stable House Farm
BCT · East Hedleyhope
- 0.2 miles
Stable House Farm
BCT · East Hedleyhope
- 0.3 miles
Black Horse
BCT · Waterhouses
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 031B, 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
9,502 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 6
- Medium risk addresses
- 7
- 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
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 0 secondary schools. Esh Winning Academy is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
44 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.