Property market
The five-year median is £55,000 from 3 recorded sales in DL4 1PG. 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.
DL4 1PG
Shildon & Dene Valley · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shildon
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL4
- Postcode sector
- DL4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL4 1PG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL4
- Postcode sector
- DL4 1
- Latitude
- 54.626632
- Longitude
- -1.642978
- British National Grid easting
- 423,149
- British National Grid northing
- 525,779
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
- E04010691
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105566
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 059B · E01020802
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 059 · E02004340
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 DL4
Property
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Soho Street, Shildon, DL4 1PG | 16 July 2026 | £86,489 |
| 14, Soho Street, Shildon, DL4 1PG | 5 May 2026 | £41,000 |
| 10, Soho Street, Shildon, DL4 1PG | 24 February 2023 | £55,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 458 m
Timothy Hackworth Primary School
Community school
- 717 m
St John's Church of England Aided Primary School, Shildon
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Thornhill Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,699
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 600
- Anti social behaviour 264
- Criminal damage and arson 257
- Burglary 112
- Other theft 111
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.1
- DL4 1 residents
- 4,427
6 female, 11 male
Age bands in DL4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.4%
619 residents
434 residents
950 residents
1,308 residents
1,128 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL4 1 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+
- 35.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 35.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 35.3%
- 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
7
within 5 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
921 m
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
3.3 km
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
4.0 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
4.1 km
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
4.2 km
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
4.4 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
4.7 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Middleton Road - Masonic Hall
BCT · Shildon
- 0.1 miles
Middleton Road - Masonic Hall
BCT · Shildon
- 0.1 miles
Dabble Duck Industrial Estate West End
BCT · Shildon
- 0.2 miles
Redworth Road
BCT · New Shildon
- 0.2 miles
Masons Arms
BCT · Shildon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 059B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,528 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 4
- Medium risk addresses
- 12
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Timothy Hackworth Primary School is the nearest published school at 458 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,699 published events cover 12 months, averaging 141.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 600 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.