Property market
The five-year median is £310,000 from 11 recorded sales in DH8 7BW. 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 7BW
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH8 7BW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 7
- Latitude
- 54.837848
- Longitude
- -1.808708
- British National Grid easting
- 412,385
- British National Grid northing
- 549,241
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
- E00104777
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 012B · E01020651
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 012 · E02004304
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Jubilee Drive, Consett, DH8 7BW | 30 April 2025 | £330,600 |
| 10, Jubilee Drive, Consett, DH8 7BW | 28 April 2025 | £310,000 |
| 5, Jubilee Drive, Consett, DH8 7BW | 28 February 2025 | £330,600 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 940 m
Delves Lane Primary School
Community school
- 2.2 km
Leadgate Primary School - Split Site
Community school
- 2.2 km
Derwentside College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 409
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 195
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Criminal damage and arson 50
- Public order 30
- Other crime 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH8 7 residents
- 9,312
Age bands in DH8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
1,650 residents
966 residents
2,197 residents
2,566 residents
1,736 residents
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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- 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
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
1.9 km
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
2.5 km
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
4.0 km
LANCHESTER MEDICAL CENTRE
DURHAM ROAD, LANCHESTER, DURHAM, DH7 0LP
ODS code A83072
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Industrial Estate
BCT · Delves
- 0.1 miles
Industrial Estate
BCT · Delves
- 0.1 miles
Greenways
BCT · Delves
- 0.2 miles
Greenways
BCT · Delves
- 0.3 miles
Broadway
BCT · Delves
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 012B, 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
10,031 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Delves Lane Primary School is the nearest published school at 940 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
409 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 195 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.