Property market
The five-year median is £60,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH8 9AA. 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 9AA
Consett South · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Consett
- Ward
- Consett South
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH8 9AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 9
- Latitude
- 54.836663
- Longitude
- -1.848134
- British National Grid easting
- 409,853
- British National Grid northing
- 549,103
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Consett South · E05016167
- Parish or community
- E04010642
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104707
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 014C · E01020637
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hownes Gill Farm, The Bunkhouse, Consett, DH8 9AA | 5 August 2021 | £60,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.2 km
St Pius Xth Catholic Primary School, Consett
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
The Grove Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Moorside Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 534
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 192
- Anti social behaviour 126
- Criminal damage and arson 58
- Shoplifting 52
- Other theft 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- DH8 9 residents
- 2,914
3 female, 5 male
Age bands in DH8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.3%
348 residents
283 residents
498 residents
920 residents
733 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH8 9 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+
- 0%
- 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
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
2.1 km
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
3.4 km
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
3.8 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
- 0.4 miles
International Cuisine
BCT · Templetown
- 0.4 miles
Bus Depot
BCT · Templetown
- 0.4 miles
Bus Depot
BCT · Templetown
- 0.6 miles
Co-op Store
BCT · The Grove
- 0.6 miles
Co-op Store
BCT · The Grove
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 014C, 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
18,868 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 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
20 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Pius Xth Catholic Primary School, Consett is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
534 published events cover 12 months, averaging 44.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 192 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.