Property market
The five-year median is £805,000 from 1 recorded sale in DL1 3LF. 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.
DL1 3LF
Sedgefield · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Darlington
- Ward
- Sedgefield
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DL1
- Postcode sector
- DL1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL1 3LF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL1
- Postcode sector
- DL1 3
- Latitude
- 54.599571
- Longitude
- -1.524447
- British National Grid easting
- 430,822
- British National Grid northing
- 522,813
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Sedgefield · E05016192
- Parish or community
- E04010667
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105700
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 054B · E01020828
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 054 · E02004339
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 DL1
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Preston Tilery Farm, Brafferton, Darlington, DL1 3LF | 28 October 2022 | £805,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.4 km
Aycliffe Village Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
Forest Park School
Other independent special school
- 3.0 km
Thornbeck College - North East Autism Society
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Drugs 1
- Other theft 1
- Theft from the person 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- DL1 3 residents
- 8,807
2 female, 1 male
Age bands in DL1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
1,340 residents
863 residents
1,945 residents
2,453 residents
1,883 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL1 3 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
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
3.7 km
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
4.0 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
4.9 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.4 miles
Brafferton FLX
BCT · Brafferton
- 1.5 miles
Durham Road
BCT · Aycliffe Village
- 1.5 miles
Durham Road
BCT · Aycliffe Village
- 1.5 miles
Royal Telegraph
BCT · Aycliffe Village
- 1.5 miles
Royal Telegraph
BCT · Aycliffe Village
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 054B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,880 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 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
12 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Aycliffe Village Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.