Property market
The five-year median is £140,000 from 1 recorded sale in SR8 4QU. 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 4QU
Horden & Dene House · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Peterlee
- Ward
- Horden & Dene House
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR8 4QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 4
- Latitude
- 54.762854
- Longitude
- -1.321284
- British National Grid easting
- 443,772
- British National Grid northing
- 541,090
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Horden & Dene House · E05016179
- Parish or community
- E04010647
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105368
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 036B · E01020766
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 036 · E02004327
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Claremont, Shotton Road, Horden, Peterlee, SR8 4QU | 20 December 2022 | £140,000 |
| Arnisdale, Shotton Road, Horden, Peterlee, SR8 4QU | 8 July 2021 | £152,000 |
| Claremont, Shotton Road, Horden, Peterlee, SR8 4QU | 16 October 2017 | £128,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 5
- 374 m
Seascape Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 378 m
Seascape Primary School
Community school
- 542 m
Dene Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,103
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,148
- Shoplifting 436
- Criminal damage and arson 393
- Anti social behaviour 335
- Public order 191
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SR8 4 residents
- 7,146
6 female, 7 male
Age bands in SR8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.9%
1,177 residents
790 residents
1,595 residents
2,000 residents
1,473 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SR8 4 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
5
within 5 km
THE HORDEN GROUP PRACTICE
SEA VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, FOURTH STREET, HORDEN, PETERLEE, SR8 4LD
ODS code A83044
547 m
WILLIAM BROWN CENTRE
MANOR WAY, PETERLEE, SR8 5TW
ODS code A83012
848 m
BLACKHALL AND PETERLEE PRACTICE
BLACKHALL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, BLACKHALL COLLIERY, BLACKHALL, HARTLEPOOL, TS27 4LQ
ODS code A83007
2.7 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
4.2 km
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
4.3 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
Horden Hotel
BCT · Horden
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Horden
- 0.1 miles
Kell Road
BCT · Horden
- 0.2 miles
Army Cadet Centre
BCT · Horden
- 0.2 miles
Chapel Hill Road
BCT · Peterlee
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 036B, 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
4,664 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 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
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 2
- 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
28 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Seascape Primary School is the nearest published school at 374 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,103 published events cover 12 months, averaging 258.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,148 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.