Property market
The five-year median is £247,500 from 4 recorded sales in DL5 6LU. 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 6LU
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL5 6LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 6
- Latitude
- 54.596495
- Longitude
- -1.559693
- British National Grid easting
- 428,547
- British National Grid northing
- 522,456
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
- E00105679
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 063B · E01020826
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 063 · E02004344
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
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Chapel House, The Green, Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6LU | 2 October 2025 | £212,500 |
| 31, The Green, Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6LU | 4 July 2025 | £290,000 |
| 32, The Green, Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6LU | 16 June 2025 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 3
- 234 m
Aycliffe Village Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 959 m
Forest Park School
Other independent special school
- 1.2 km
UTC South Durham
University technical college
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 90
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 28
- Other theft 13
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Vehicle crime 10
- Burglary 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- DL5 6 residents
- 4,265
13 female, 12 male
Age bands in DL5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.7%
657 residents
408 residents
815 residents
1,347 residents
1,116 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL5 6 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+
- 30%
- 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
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
2.5 km
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
2.7 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
3.9 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
Royal Telegraph
BCT · Aycliffe Village
- 0.1 miles
Royal Telegraph
BCT · Aycliffe Village
- 0.1 miles
North Briton
BCT · Aycliffe Village
- 0.1 miles
North Briton
BCT · Aycliffe Village
- 0.2 miles
Heighington Lane
BCT · Aycliffe Industrial Estate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 063B, 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
8,606 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 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
17 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 3 secondary schools. Aycliffe Village Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 234 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
90 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 28 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.