Property market
The five-year median is £171,500 from 38 recorded sales in DH8 7FB. 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 7FB
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 7FB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 7
- Latitude
- 54.848088
- Longitude
- -1.817442
- British National Grid easting
- 411,821
- British National Grid northing
- 550,379
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
- E00104781
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 012C · E01020652
- 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
40 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 73, Victory Close, Consett, DH8 7FB | 31 July 2025 | £171,500 |
| 67, Victory Close, Consett, DH8 7FB | 30 June 2025 | £150,000 |
| 75, Victory Close, Consett, DH8 7FB | 30 June 2025 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 1
- 630 m
Delves Lane Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Beechdale Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 1.0 km
Consett Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,847
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 664
- Shoplifting 287
- Anti social behaviour 239
- Criminal damage and arson 186
- Public order 133
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
755 m
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
1.6 km
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
2.7 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
Castledene Road
BCT · Delves
- 0.1 miles
Castledene Road
BCT · Delves
- 0.1 miles
Castledene Road - Gloucester Road
BCT · Delves
- 0.1 miles
Castledene Road - Gloucester Road
BCT · Delves
- 0.1 miles
Main Street
BCT · Crookhall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 012C, 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
8,136 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
24 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 1 secondary schools. Delves Lane Primary School is the nearest published school at 630 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,847 published events cover 12 months, averaging 153.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 664 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.