Property market
The five-year median is £289,975 from 2 recorded sales in DL5 6PT. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Darlington is £158,188 in June 2026, up 3.8% year on year.
DL5 6PT
Heighington & Coniscliffe · Darlington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newton Aycliffe
- Local authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL5 6PT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 6
- Latitude
- 54.597504
- Longitude
- -1.613096
- British National Grid easting
- 425,096
- British National Grid northing
- 522,548
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Darlington · E06000005
- Electoral ward
- Heighington & Coniscliffe · E05010419
- Parish or community
- E04000296
- Westminster constituency
- Darlington · E14001190
- Output area
- E00062203
- Lower layer super output area
- Darlington 001C · E01012335
- Middle layer super output area
- Darlington 001 · E02002559
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
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Heighcroft House, Beech Crescent, Heighington Village, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6PT | 25 August 2023 | £420,000 |
| 2, Beech Crescent, Heighington Village, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6PT | 31 May 2023 | £159,950 |
| 3, Beech Crescent, Heighington Village, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6PT | 9 June 2021 | £198,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 450 m
Heighington Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
UTC South Durham
University technical college
- 2.6 km
Greenfield Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 132
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 54
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Burglary 13
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Vehicle crime 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- DL5 6 residents
- 4,265
10 female, 13 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 0.5% 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+
- 92.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 92.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 92.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 76.9%
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
4
within 5 km
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
3.3 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
3.5 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
4.2 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
4.6 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
- 0.2 miles
Hall Lane
BCT · Heighington
- 0.2 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Heighington
- 0.2 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Heighington
- 0.6 miles
Redworth Hall Hotel
BCT · Redworth
- 0.7 miles
High Barn Road
BCT · School Aycliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Darlington 001C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,572 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
22 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Heighington Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 450 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
132 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 54 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.