Property market
The five-year median is £549,950 from 1 recorded sale in DL17 9DZ. 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 9DZ
Sedgefield · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ferryhill
- Ward
- Sedgefield
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DL17
- Postcode sector
- DL17 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL17 9DZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL17
- Postcode sector
- DL17 9
- Latitude
- 54.677001
- Longitude
- -1.462179
- British National Grid easting
- 434,779
- British National Grid northing
- 531,458
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Sedgefield · E05016192
- Parish or community
- E04010629
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105609
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 048B · E01020810
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 048 · E02004334
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Maggies Well Cottage, Bishop Middleham, Ferryhill, DL17 9DZ | 25 July 2022 | £549,950 |
| Maggies Well Cottage, Bishop Middleham, Ferryhill, DL17 9DZ | 14 December 2018 | £475,000 |
| Maggies Well Cottage, Bishop Middleham, Ferryhill, DL17 9DZ | 26 March 1999 | £120,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.7 km
St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Fishburn Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
Sedgefield Hardwick Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 100
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 35
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Vehicle crime 10
- Burglary 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- DL17 9 residents
- 3,792
4 female, 3 male
Age bands in DL17 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
551 residents
319 residents
819 residents
1,073 residents
922 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL17 9 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km
SKERNE MEDICAL GROUP
HARBINSON HOUSE, FRONT STREET, SEDGEFIELD, STOCKTON-ON-TEES, TS21 3BN
ODS code A83054
2.7 km
WEST CORNFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
READING STREET, WEST CORNFORTH, FERRYHILL, DL17 9LH
ODS code A83634
4.9 km
COXHOE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 LANSDOWNE ROAD, COXHOE, DURHAM, DH6 4DH
ODS code A83027
5.0 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
Road End
BCT · Fishburn
- 0.2 miles
Road End
BCT · Fishburn
- 0.5 miles
North East Technology Park
BCT · Sedgefield
- 0.6 miles
North East Technology Park
BCT · Sedgefield
- 0.8 miles
Old Community Hospital
BCT · Sedgefield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 048B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,423 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
11 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Michael's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
100 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 35 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.