Property market
The five-year median is £47,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH8 0BA. 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.
DH8 0BA
Benfieldside · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Consett
- Ward
- Benfieldside
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH8 0BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 0
- Latitude
- 54.861395
- Longitude
- -1.848913
- British National Grid easting
- 409,797
- British National Grid northing
- 551,855
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Benfieldside · E05016157
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Blaydon and Consett · E14001106
- Output area
- E00104659
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 003A · E01020627
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 003 · E02004298
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 DH8
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ritsons Court, 3, Blackhill, Consett, DH8 0BA | 16 February 2022 | £47,000 |
| Ritsons Court, 3, Blackhill, Consett, DH8 0BA | 30 March 2017 | £36,500 |
| Ritsons Court, 5, Blackhill, Consett, DH8 0BA | 3 June 2010 | £70,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 1
- 311 m
Benfieldside Primary School
Community school
- 706 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Blackhill
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Delta Independent School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,434
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 553
- Anti social behaviour 222
- Shoplifting 152
- Criminal damage and arson 142
- Public order 107
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- DH8 0 residents
- 6,818
3 female, 4 male
Age bands in DH8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.3%
1,084 residents
619 residents
1,587 residents
2,129 residents
1,740 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH8 0 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
- 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
3
within 5 km
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
704 m
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
1.8 km
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
2.8 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
- 0.0 miles
St Andrews Church
BCT · Blackhill
- 0.1 miles
Durham Road
BCT · Blackhill
- 0.1 miles
St Andrews Church
BCT · Blackhill
- 0.1 miles
Durham Road
BCT · Blackhill
- 0.1 miles
Tuckers shop
BCT · Blackhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 003A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,891 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 5
- 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 15 primary and 1 secondary schools. Benfieldside Primary School is the nearest published school at 311 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,434 published events cover 12 months, averaging 119.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 553 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.