Property market
The five-year median is £200,000 from 2 recorded sales in DL14 7SP. 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 7SP
West Auckland · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bishop Auckland
- Ward
- West Auckland
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL14 7SP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 7
- Latitude
- 54.657166
- Longitude
- -1.713127
- British National Grid easting
- 418,606
- British National Grid northing
- 529,156
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- West Auckland · E05016201
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105992
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 057A · E01020882
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 057 · E02004354
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Escomb Villas, Escomb, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7SP | 6 January 2025 | £250,000 |
| 1, Escomb Villas, Escomb, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7SP | 25 October 2021 | £150,000 |
| 2, Escomb Villas, Escomb, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7SP | 18 January 2011 | £130,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 163 m
Escomb Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Bishop Auckland College
Further education
- 1.6 km
St Chad's Catholic Primary School, Witton Park
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 254
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 69
- Violence and sexual offences 64
- Criminal damage and arson 32
- Burglary 31
- Vehicle crime 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- DL14 7 residents
- 4,741
2 female, 1 male
Age bands in DL14 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
636 residents
459 residents
945 residents
1,305 residents
1,027 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL14 7 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
- 20%
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
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
2.3 km
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
2.4 km
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
2.4 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
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Escomb
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Escomb
- 0.1 miles
Three Lane Ends
BCT · Escomb
- 0.2 miles
Four Lane Ends
BCT · Etherley Dene
- 0.2 miles
The Gables
BCT · Escomb
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 057A, 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
10,877 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
26 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Escomb Primary School is the nearest published school at 163 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
254 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 69 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.