Property market
The five-year median is £107,500 from 8 recorded sales in DH8 6NR. 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 6NR
Delves Lane · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Consett
- Ward
- Delves Lane
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH8 6NR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 6
- Latitude
- 54.852013
- Longitude
- -1.828436
- British National Grid easting
- 411,114
- British National Grid northing
- 550,814
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Delves Lane · E05016172
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Blaydon and Consett · E14001106
- Output area
- E00104725
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 010B · E01020640
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 010 · E02004303
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
42 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 16, The Avenue, Consett, DH8 6NR | 22 April 2026 | £146,000 |
| 11, The Avenue, Consett, DH8 6NR | 24 March 2025 | £80,000 |
| 16, The Avenue, Consett, DH8 6NR | 24 January 2025 | £110,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 1
- 263 m
Consett Infant School
Community school
- 273 m
Learning for Life
Special post 16 institution
- 436 m
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Consett
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,866
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 662
- Shoplifting 261
- Anti social behaviour 257
- Criminal damage and arson 192
- Public order 135
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 68
- Postcode households
- 29
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- DH8 6 residents
- 6,702
31 female, 37 male
Age bands in DH8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.6%
1,020 residents
595 residents
1,588 residents
1,962 residents
1,593 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH8 6 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+
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
88 m
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
1.7 km
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
1.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Station Road
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Delves Lane
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Sherburn Terrace
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Sherburn Terrace
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Consett Bus Station Stand J
BCS · Consett
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 010B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,734 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
- 1
- 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. Consett Infant School is the nearest published school at 263 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,866 published events cover 12 months, averaging 155.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 662 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.