Benfieldside · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Newlands, Consett, DH8 0JY | 30 July 2021 | £67,000 |
| 11, Newlands, Consett, DH8 0JY | 26 February 2021 | £64,000 |
| 24, Newlands, Consett, DH8 0JY | 25 November 2020 | £58,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Benfieldside Primary School
Community school
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Blackhill
Academy converter
Shotley Bridge Primary School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
25 female, 26 male
1,084 residents
619 residents
1,587 residents
2,129 residents
1,740 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
3
within 5 km straight-line
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
693 m
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
2.0 km
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
2.9 km
St Andrews Church
BCT · Blackhill
The Old Post Office
BCT · Blackhill
The Old Post Office
BCT · Blackhill
St Andrews Church
BCT · Blackhill
Surtees shop
BCT · Bridgehill
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 003C, 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
17,507 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
22 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 1 secondary schools. Benfieldside Primary School is the nearest published school at 111 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
951 published events cover 12 months, averaging 79.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 402 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.