Property market
The five-year median is £780,000 from 1 recorded sale in DL4 2QX. 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 2QX
Chilton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shildon
- Ward
- Chilton
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DL4
- Postcode sector
- DL4 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL4 2QX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL4
- Postcode sector
- DL4 2
- Latitude
- 54.647588
- Longitude
- -1.610607
- British National Grid easting
- 425,226
- British National Grid northing
- 528,122
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Chilton · E05016165
- Parish or community
- E04010714
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105588
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 053I · E01034508
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 053 · E02004338
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Eldon Lodge, Old Eldon, Shildon, DL4 2QX | 14 January 2022 | £780,000 |
| Skyecroft Kennels & Cattery, Old Eldon, Shildon, DL4 2QX | 8 August 2018 | £430,300 |
| Eldon Lodge, Old Eldon, Shildon, DL4 2QX | 3 February 1997 | £200,150 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 2.0 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Coundon
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Victoria Lane Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.5 km
St John's Church of England Aided Primary School, Shildon
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 30
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Other crime 4
- Public order 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- DL4 2 residents
- 5,672
5 female, 4 male
Age bands in DL4 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
1,119 residents
607 residents
1,457 residents
1,446 residents
982 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL4 2 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
7
within 5 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
2.6 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
2.8 km
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
3.9 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
4.2 km
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
4.4 km
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
4.4 km
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
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
- 0.7 miles
Coundon Road End
BCT · Leasingthorne
- 0.7 miles
Coundon Road End
BCT · Leasingthorne
- 0.8 miles
Leeholme Road End
BCT · Leeholme
- 0.8 miles
Leeholme Road End
BCT · Leeholme
- 0.9 miles
White Cottage Farm
BCT · Rushyford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 053I, 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
14,648 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 2
- 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
34 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Coundon is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
30 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.