Property market
The five-year median is £88,000 from 5 recorded sales in DL5 5BD. 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.
DL5 5BD
Aycliffe South · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newton Aycliffe
- Ward
- Aycliffe South
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL5 5BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 5
- Latitude
- 54.619778
- Longitude
- -1.556748
- British National Grid easting
- 428,721
- British National Grid northing
- 525,048
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Aycliffe South · E05016154
- Parish or community
- E04010634
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105734
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 062D · E01020834
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 062 · E02004343
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 DL5
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Markham Place, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 5BD | 31 October 2025 | £91,000 |
| 12, Markham Place, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 5BD | 6 December 2024 | £88,000 |
| 13, Markham Place, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 5BD | 8 November 2023 | £87,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 379 m
Vane Road Primary School
Academy converter
- 479 m
North East Centre for Autism - Aycliffe School
Other independent special school
- 569 m
Thornbeck College - North East Autism Society
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,748
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 675
- Anti social behaviour 319
- Shoplifting 196
- Criminal damage and arson 166
- Public order 112
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 32
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- DL5 5 residents
- 6,172
18 female, 14 male
Age bands in DL5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21%
1,032 residents
650 residents
1,422 residents
1,782 residents
1,300 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL5 5 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 93.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
1.0 km
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
1.3 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
1.9 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
Mellanby Crescent
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.1 miles
Mellanby Crescent
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
Auckland Place
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
Auckland Place
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
Vane Road-Mellanby Crescent
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 062D, 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
5,309 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
18 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Vane Road Primary School is the nearest published school at 379 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,748 published events cover 12 months, averaging 145.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 675 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.