Property market
The five-year median is £225,000 from 1 recorded sale in DL17 8LQ. 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.
DL17 8LQ
Ferryhill · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ferryhill
- Ward
- Ferryhill
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DL17
- Postcode sector
- DL17 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL17 8LQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2007
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL17
- Postcode sector
- DL17 8
- Latitude
- 54.690029
- Longitude
- -1.554619
- British National Grid easting
- 428,809
- British National Grid northing
- 532,866
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Ferryhill · E05016177
- Parish or community
- E04010628
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105599
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 050D · E01020808
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 050 · E02004336
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 DL17
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Feryemount Nursing Home, North Street, Ferryhill, DL17 8LQ | 9 September 2021 | £225,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 400 m
Dean Bank Primary and Nursery School
Community school
- 576 m
Broom Cottages Primary & Nursery School
Community school
- 576 m
The Woodlands
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,473
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 549
- Shoplifting 192
- Criminal damage and arson 187
- Anti social behaviour 144
- Public order 109
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL17 8 residents
- 8,515
Age bands in DL17 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.2%
1,366 residents
910 residents
1,839 residents
2,424 residents
2,089 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.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
FERRYHILL AND CHILTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, DURHAM ROAD, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JJ
ODS code A83045
145 m
WEST CORNFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
READING STREET, WEST CORNFORTH, FERRYHILL, DL17 9LH
ODS code A83634
2.5 km
ST ANDREW'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
SENSIER HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S LANE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6QA
ODS code A83001
3.0 km
BISHOPS CLOSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPENNYMOOR HEALTH CENTRE, BISHOPS CLOSE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6ED
ODS code A83052
3.1 km
COXHOE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 LANSDOWNE ROAD, COXHOE, DURHAM, DH6 4DH
ODS code A83027
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Clinic-Surgery
BCT · Ferryhill
- 0.1 miles
Town Centre
BCS · Ferryhill
- 0.1 miles
Town Centre
BCS · Ferryhill
- 0.1 miles
Town Centre
BCS · Ferryhill
- 0.1 miles
Town Centre
BCS · Ferryhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 050D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,542 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. Dean Bank Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 400 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,473 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 549 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.