Property market
The five-year median is £72,250 from 6 recorded sales in SR8 2PG. 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.
SR8 2PG
Peterlee · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR8 2PG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 2
- Latitude
- 54.761540
- Longitude
- -1.353895
- British National Grid easting
- 441,675
- British National Grid northing
- 540,924
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Peterlee · E05016188
- Parish or community
- E04010677
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105390
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 035E · E01020771
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 035 · E02004328
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 SR8
Property
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 74, Cheviot Place, Peterlee, SR8 2PG | 15 May 2026 | £63,000 |
| 70, Cheviot Place, Peterlee, SR8 2PG | 20 December 2024 | £77,000 |
| 62, Cheviot Place, Peterlee, SR8 2PG | 8 March 2024 | £75,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 304 m
Howletch Lane Primary School
Community school
- 372 m
East Durham College
Further education
- 372 m
Endeavour Academy Durham
Free schools alternative provision
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,294
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 861
- Criminal damage and arson 305
- Shoplifting 285
- Anti social behaviour 283
- Public order 162
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 93
- Postcode households
- 40
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SR8 2 residents
- 7,780
44 female, 49 male
Age bands in SR8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
1,556 residents
992 residents
2,083 residents
2,160 residents
1,425 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SR8 2 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
WILLIAM BROWN CENTRE
MANOR WAY, PETERLEE, SR8 5TW
ODS code A83012
1.5 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
2.1 km
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
2.2 km
THE HORDEN GROUP PRACTICE
SEA VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, FOURTH STREET, HORDEN, PETERLEE, SR8 4LD
ODS code A83044
2.6 km
EAST DURHAM MEDICAL GROUP
THE CARADOC SURGERY, FRONT STREET WEST, WINGATE, TS28 5PZ
ODS code A83057
4.3 km
WINGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE INTRAHEALTH
FRONT STREET WEST, WINGATE, TS28 5PZ
ODS code A83610
4.3 km
BLACKHALL AND PETERLEE PRACTICE
BLACKHALL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, BLACKHALL COLLIERY, BLACKHALL, HARTLEPOOL, TS27 4LQ
ODS code A83007
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Pennine Dr - Cheviot Place
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.0 miles
Pennine Dr - Cheviot Place
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Burnhope Way Slip Road
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Burnhope Way - Beverley Way
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Burnhope Way - Beverley Way
BCT · Peterlee
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 035E, 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
4,196 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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
35 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Howletch Lane Primary School is the nearest published school at 304 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,294 published events cover 12 months, averaging 191.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 861 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.