Property market
The five-year median is £515,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH9 6SL. 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.
DH9 6SL
Sacriston & Witton Gilbert · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Stanley
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH9 6SL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 6
- Latitude
- 54.865982
- Longitude
- -1.650030
- British National Grid easting
- 422,561
- British National Grid northing
- 552,411
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Sacriston & Witton Gilbert · E05016190
- Parish or community
- E04010621
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104544
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 005A · E01020606
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 005 · E02004291
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 DH9
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Harwell House, Twizell Lane, West Pelton, Stanley, DH9 6SL | 15 July 2025 | £515,000 |
| Harwell House, Twizell Lane, West Pelton, Stanley, DH9 6SL | 6 July 2021 | £60,000 |
| Jingling Gate Inn, Plot 3, Twizell Lane, West Pelton, Stanley, DH9 6SL | 6 July 2021 | £60,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 593 m
West Pelton Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Beamish Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Roseberry Primary and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 289
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 130
- Anti social behaviour 47
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- Other theft 19
- Vehicle crime 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- DH9 6 residents
- 10,874
2 female, 3 male
Age bands in DH9 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.1%
2,125 residents
1,178 residents
2,819 residents
2,833 residents
1,979 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH9 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+
- 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
2.7 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
3.1 km
STANLEY MEDICAL GROUP
STANLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CLIFFORD ROAD, STANLEY, DH9 0AB
ODS code A83023
3.1 km
TANFIELD VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SCOTT STREET, TANFIELD, STANLEY, DH9 8AD
ODS code A83016
3.3 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
3.7 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Council Yard
BCT · West Pelton
- 0.4 miles
Council Yard
BCT · West Pelton
- 0.4 miles
Stone Row
BCT · Grange Villa
- 0.4 miles
Twizell Road End
BCT · West Pelton
- 0.5 miles
Twizell Road End
BCT · West Pelton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 005A, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,361 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
25 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. West Pelton Primary School is the nearest published school at 593 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
289 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 130 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.