Property market
The five-year median is £135,000 from 3 recorded sales in DL15 8BD. 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.
DL15 8BD
Crook · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Crook
- Ward
- Crook
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL15
- Postcode sector
- DL15 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL15 8BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL15
- Postcode sector
- DL15 8
- Latitude
- 54.682481
- Longitude
- -1.745475
- British National Grid easting
- 416,509
- British National Grid northing
- 531,965
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Crook · E05016169
- Parish or community
- E04010718
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00106114
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 042E · E01020906
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 042 · E02004348
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 DL15
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Enginemans Terrace, Wear Valley Junction, Crook, DL15 8BD | 28 August 2025 | £150,000 |
| 3, Enginemans Terrace, Wear Valley Junction, Crook, DL15 8BD | 20 December 2024 | £135,000 |
| 4, Enginemans Terrace, Wear Valley Junction, Crook, DL15 8BD | 25 October 2021 | £120,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.4 km
Howden-le-Wear Primary School
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- 1.9 km
Witton-le-Wear Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
St Chad's Catholic Primary School, Witton Park
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 138
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 50
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Other crime 12
- Vehicle crime 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- DL15 8 residents
- 5,225
16 female, 8 male
Age bands in DL15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.3%
929 residents
513 residents
1,184 residents
1,446 residents
1,171 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL15 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+
- 93.8%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 93.8%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 93.8%
- Gigabit-capable
- 93.8%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 93.8%
- 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
2
within 5 km
NORTH HOUSE SURGERY
HOPE STREET, CROOK, DL15 9HU
ODS code A83020
3.8 km
WILLINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, WILLINGTON, CROOK, DL15 0EQ
ODS code A83003
4.5 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
- 0.2 miles
Lane End
BCT · Wear Valley Junction
- 0.2 miles
Lane End
BCT · Wear Valley Junction
- 0.4 miles
Old Colliery
BCT · Howden le Wear
- 0.4 miles
Old Colliery
BCT · Howden le Wear
- 0.4 miles
Nature Reserve
BCT · Witton le Wear
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 042E, 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
13,907 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
20 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Howden-le-Wear Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
138 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 50 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.