Property market
The five-year median is £101,500 from 3 recorded sales in DH9 8RQ. 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 8RQ
Stanley · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Stanley
- Ward
- Stanley
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH9 8RQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 8
- Latitude
- 54.878896
- Longitude
- -1.690019
- British National Grid easting
- 419,988
- British National Grid northing
- 553,836
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Stanley · E05016195
- Parish or community
- E04010699
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104842
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 004C · E01020663
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 004 · E02004299
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
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bridgemead, Pearson Street, Stanley, DH9 8RQ | 24 October 2025 | £190,000 |
| 10, Pearson Street, Stanley, DH9 8RQ | 19 August 2024 | £90,000 |
| 12, Pearson Street, Stanley, DH9 8RQ | 12 February 2024 | £101,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 2
- 275 m
Shield Row Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 816 m
North Durham Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 836 m
East Stanley School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,685
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 582
- Shoplifting 294
- Anti social behaviour 214
- Criminal damage and arson 187
- Public order 114
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 40
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- DH9 8 residents
- 7,254
19 female, 21 male
Age bands in DH9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,281 residents
730 residents
1,774 residents
1,847 residents
1,402 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH9 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+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 87.5%
- 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
STANLEY MEDICAL GROUP
STANLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CLIFFORD ROAD, STANLEY, DH9 0AB
ODS code A83023
1.1 km
TANFIELD VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SCOTT STREET, TANFIELD, STANLEY, DH9 8AD
ODS code A83016
1.2 km
ANNFIELD PLAIN SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7TD
ODS code A83644
3.8 km
DRS LAMBERT & NG
WEST ROAD SURGERY, 9 WEST ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7XT
ODS code A83073
3.9 km
CEDARS MEDICAL GROUP
CEDAR CRESCENT, BURNOPFIELD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 6HU
ODS code A83038
4.4 km
SUNNISIDE SURGERY
8 DEWHURST TERRACE, SUNNISIDE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 5LP
ODS code A85617
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Garage
BCT · Kiphill
- 0.1 miles
Garage
BCT · Kiphill
- 0.1 miles
Station Villas
BCT · Shieldrow
- 0.1 miles
Station Villas
BCT · Shieldrow
- 0.1 miles
Shield Row School
BCT · Shieldrow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 004C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,948 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 11
- 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
24 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 2 secondary schools. Shield Row Primary School is the nearest published school at 275 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,685 published events cover 12 months, averaging 140.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 582 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.