Property market
The five-year median is £5,700,000 from 1 recorded sale in SR8 2QH. 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 2QH
Easington & Shotton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Peterlee
- Ward
- Easington & Shotton
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR8 2QH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 2
- Latitude
- 54.766214
- Longitude
- -1.369347
- British National Grid easting
- 440,676
- British National Grid northing
- 541,435
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Easington & Shotton · E05016174
- Parish or community
- E04010619
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105312
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 025D · E01020756
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 025 · E02004324
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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Fiennes Road, North West Industrial Estate, Peterlee, SR8 2QH | 9 September 2025 | £5,700,000 |
| 1, Fiennes Road, North West Industrial Estate, Peterlee, SR8 2QH | 3 April 2018 | £1,000 |
| 1, Fiennes Road, North West Industrial Estate, Peterlee, SR8 2QH | 7 March 2018 | £764,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.3 km
Shotton Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Howletch Lane Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Acre Rigg Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,009
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 358
- Criminal damage and arson 162
- Shoplifting 138
- Anti social behaviour 135
- Public order 56
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR8 2 residents
- 7,780
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
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 straight-line
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
1.1 km
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
1.3 km
WILLIAM BROWN CENTRE
MANOR WAY, PETERLEE, SR8 5TW
ODS code A83012
2.6 km
THE HORDEN GROUP PRACTICE
SEA VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, FOURTH STREET, HORDEN, PETERLEE, SR8 4LD
ODS code A83044
3.6 km
EAST DURHAM MEDICAL GROUP
THE CARADOC SURGERY, FRONT STREET WEST, WINGATE, TS28 5PZ
ODS code A83057
4.6 km
WINGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE INTRAHEALTH
FRONT STREET WEST, WINGATE, TS28 5PZ
ODS code A83610
4.6 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cook Way
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Fisher Price
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Fisher Price
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.2 miles
Optilon - Cook Way
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.2 miles
Mill Hill - Cook Way
BCT · Peterlee
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 025D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,354 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
35 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Shotton Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,009 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 358 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.