Property market
The five-year median is £350,000 from 5 recorded sales in DH8 8JS. 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 8JS
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH8 8JS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 8
- Latitude
- 54.859307
- Longitude
- -1.861913
- British National Grid easting
- 408,963
- British National Grid northing
- 551,621
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
- E00104672
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 014A · E01020630
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 014 · E02004305
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
26 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 43, Barley Mill Road, Consett, DH8 8JS | 2 April 2026 | £350,000 |
| 35, Barley Mill Road, Consett, DH8 8JS | 28 February 2025 | £550,000 |
| 43, Barley Mill Road, Consett, DH8 8JS | 22 April 2024 | £297,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 1
- 331 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Blackhill
Academy converter
- 670 m
Benfieldside Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
The Grove Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 598
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 242
- Anti social behaviour 121
- Criminal damage and arson 64
- Vehicle crime 38
- Public order 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 43
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- DH8 8 residents
- 7,051
23 female, 20 male
Age bands in DH8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17%
1,387 residents
742 residents
1,796 residents
1,807 residents
1,173 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH8 8 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+
- 94.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 94.4%
- Gigabit-capable
- 94.4%
- 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
1.4 km
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
2.4 km
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
3.6 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
Chaytor Road - Middle
BCT · Bridgehill
- 0.2 miles
Chaytor Road - Middle
BCT · Bridgehill
- 0.2 miles
Chaytor Road - Top
BCT · Bridgehill
- 0.2 miles
Chaytor Road - Bottom
BCT · Bridgehill
- 0.2 miles
Highridge
BCT · Blackhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 014A, 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
7,628 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
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
- 0
- 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. St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Blackhill is the nearest published school at 331 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
598 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 242 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.