Property market
The five-year median is £110,000 from 5 recorded sales in SR7 8AR. 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 8AR
Dalton & Dawdon · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Seaham
- Ward
- Dalton & Dawdon
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- SR7
- Postcode sector
- SR7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR7 8AR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR7
- Postcode sector
- SR7 8
- Latitude
- 54.837788
- Longitude
- -1.355231
- British National Grid easting
- 441,511
- British National Grid northing
- 549,408
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Dalton & Dawdon · E05016170
- Parish or community
- E04010685
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105279
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 018B · E01020747
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 018 · E02004322
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
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 59, Milton Close, Seaham, SR7 8AR | 19 March 2025 | £125,000 |
| 63, Milton Close, Seaham, SR7 8AR | 28 March 2024 | £94,000 |
| 65, Milton Close, Seaham, SR7 8AR | 28 September 2022 | £112,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 531 m
Seaview Primary School
Community school
- 650 m
Seaham High School
Academy converter
- 933 m
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Seaham
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,365
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 710
- Shoplifting 395
- Anti social behaviour 373
- Criminal damage and arson 368
- Public order 119
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 65
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- SR7 8 residents
- 7,300
34 female, 31 male
Age bands in SR7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
1,111 residents
774 residents
1,439 residents
2,127 residents
1,731 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SR7 8 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+
- 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
7
within 5 km
BYRON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE AVENUE, DENESIDE, SEAHAM, SR7 8LF
ODS code A83075
418 m
THE NEW SEAHAM MEDICAL GROUP
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
729 m
MARLBOROUGH SURGERY
SEAHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, ST. JOHNS SQUARE, SEAHAM, SR7 7JE
ODS code A83051
1.3 km
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
2.9 km
SOUTHLANDS MEDICAL GROUP
RYHOPE HEALTH CENTRE, BLACK ROAD, RYHOPE, SUNDERLAND, SR2 0RY
ODS code A89035
3.9 km
NEW SILKSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SILKSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89032
5.0 km
VILLAGE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89011
5.0 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
Queensbury Road
BCT · Deneside
- 0.1 miles
Queensbury Road
BCT · Deneside
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Deneside
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Deneside
- 0.2 miles
The Avenue-Bethune Avenue
BCT · Deneside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 018B, 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
737 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Seaview Primary School is the nearest published school at 531 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,365 published events cover 12 months, averaging 197.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 710 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.