Property market
The five-year median is £150,000 from 3 recorded sales in SR7 7SL. 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.
SR7 7SL
Seaham · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR7 7SL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR7
- Postcode sector
- SR7 7
- Latitude
- 54.836078
- Longitude
- -1.339580
- British National Grid easting
- 442,518
- British National Grid northing
- 549,227
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Seaham · E05016191
- Parish or community
- E04010685
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105456
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 017F · E01020784
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 017 · E02004321
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 SR7
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| M & K Services, George Street Industrial Estate, Seaham, SR7 7SL | 1 March 2024 | £165,500 |
| M & K Services, George Street Industrial Estate, Seaham, SR7 7SL | 21 December 2023 | £90,000 |
| Seaham Metals, George Street Industrial Estate, Seaham, SR7 7SL | 21 January 2022 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 88 m
Seaham Trinity Primary School
Community school
- 508 m
St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 651 m
Ropery Walk Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,055
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 599
- Shoplifting 367
- Anti social behaviour 327
- Criminal damage and arson 307
- Public order 106
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR7 7 residents
- 10,417
Age bands in SR7 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.1%
2,006 residents
1,069 residents
2,846 residents
2,775 residents
1,789 residents
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+
- 100%
- 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
5
within 5 km
MARLBOROUGH SURGERY
SEAHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, ST. JOHNS SQUARE, SEAHAM, SR7 7JE
ODS code A83051
265 m
BYRON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE AVENUE, DENESIDE, SEAHAM, SR7 8LF
ODS code A83075
607 m
THE NEW SEAHAM MEDICAL GROUP
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
1.7 km
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
3.5 km
SOUTHLANDS MEDICAL GROUP
RYHOPE HEALTH CENTRE, BLACK ROAD, RYHOPE, SUNDERLAND, SR2 0RY
ODS code A89035
4.4 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
- 0.0 miles
George Street
BCT · Seaham
- 0.0 miles
George Street
BCT · Seaham
- 0.1 miles
Princess Road Schools
BCT · Dawdon
- 0.1 miles
Princess Road Schools
BCT · Dawdon
- 0.1 miles
Sophia Street
BCT · Seaham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 017F, 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
2,774 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
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
15 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. Seaham Trinity Primary School is the nearest published school at 88 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,055 published events cover 12 months, averaging 171.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 599 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.