Property market
The five-year median is £474,000 from 3 recorded sales in DL14 6WA. 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.
DL14 6WA
Shildon & Dene Valley · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bishop Auckland
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL14 6WA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2004
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 6
- Latitude
- 54.645450
- Longitude
- -1.671651
- British National Grid easting
- 421,288
- British National Grid northing
- 527,864
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Shildon & Dene Valley · E05016193
- Parish or community
- E04010617
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105988
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 055E · E01020881
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 055 · E02004352
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 DL14
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Henson Close, South Church Enterprise Park, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6WA | 12 January 2024 | £433,587 |
| 1b, Henson Close, South Church Enterprise Park, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6WA | 28 February 2023 | £474,000 |
| 2, Henson Close, South Church Enterprise Park, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6WA | 1 December 2021 | £748,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 553 m
St Andrew's Academy
Academy converter
- 720 m
Aclet Close Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 814 m
Cockton Hill Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,623
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 890
- Criminal damage and arson 386
- Anti social behaviour 380
- Shoplifting 326
- Public order 179
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL14 6 residents
- 11,070
Age bands in DL14 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.4%
2,008 residents
1,212 residents
2,493 residents
3,074 residents
2,679 residents
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+
- 61.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 61.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 61.5%
- 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
559 m
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
1.3 km
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
1.5 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Hampshire Place
BCT · Bishop Auckland
- 0.2 miles
Hampshire Place
BCT · Bishop Auckland
- 0.2 miles
Dorset Place
BCT · Bishop Auckland
- 0.3 miles
Devon Place
BCT · Bishop Auckland
- 0.3 miles
Cheshire Place
BCT · Bishop Auckland
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 055E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,725 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 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
27 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Andrew's Academy is the nearest published school at 553 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,623 published events cover 12 months, averaging 218.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 890 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.