Property market
The five-year median is £142,900 from 2 recorded sales in DL12 8PY. 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.
DL12 8PY
Barnard Castle · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnard Castle
- Ward
- Barnard Castle
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL12
- Postcode sector
- DL12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL12 8PY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL12
- Postcode sector
- DL12 8
- Latitude
- 54.540205
- Longitude
- -1.924752
- British National Grid easting
- 404,967
- British National Grid northing
- 516,106
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Barnard Castle · E05016155
- Parish or community
- E04010591
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105839
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 067F · E01020854
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 067 · E02007022
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 DL12
Property
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Stable Lad's House, Thorngate, Barnard Castle, DL12 8PY | 21 January 2026 | £7,800 |
| 2, Thorngate, Barnard Castle, DL12 8PY | 18 December 2023 | £278,000 |
| 3, Thorngate, Barnard Castle, DL12 8PY | 30 July 2021 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 402 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Barnard Castle
Academy converter
- 873 m
Barnard Castle School
Other independent school
- 952 m
Montalbo Nursery & Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 618
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 252
- Other crime 83
- Anti social behaviour 57
- Shoplifting 53
- Criminal damage and arson 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- DL12 8 residents
- 6,785
21 female, 13 male
Age bands in DL12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.1%
914 residents
671 residents
1,261 residents
1,979 residents
1,985 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL12 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+
- 65.2%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 65.2%
- Gigabit-capable
- 65.2%
- 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
1
within 5 km
BARNARD CASTLE SURGERY
VICTORIA ROAD, BARNARD CASTLE, DL12 8HT
ODS code A83046
828 m
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
- 0.0 miles
The Bank
BCT · Barnard Castle
- 0.0 miles
The Bank
BCT · Barnard Castle
- 0.2 miles
The Sills Hail and Ride
BCT · Startforth
- 0.2 miles
Market Place
BCT · Barnard Castle
- 0.2 miles
Church Bank
BCT · Startforth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 067F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,763 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Barnard Castle is the nearest published school at 402 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
618 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 252 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.