Boyd Street Durham

20 addresses across 2 postcodes (DH1), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11713226.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £301,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 12, E: 1).
  • Flood: 17 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Durham, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 53 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Claypath & University Medical Group, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 15% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 80 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20191£301,000£301,000£301,000
20161£233,750£233,750£233,750
20141£270,000£270,000£270,000
20111£200,000£200,000£200,000
20082£182,500£165,000£200,000
20061£205,000£205,000£205,000
20051£210,000£210,000£210,000
20041£200,000£200,000£200,000
20031£300,000£300,000£300,000
20014£96,128£60,000£136,000
19992£98,000£93,000£103,000
19982£83,750£75,000£92,500
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Dec 202515 DH1 3DPTerraced£420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Dec 20191 DH1 3DPTerraced£301,000
4 May 201818 DH1 3DPSemi-detached£295,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jan 201616 DH1 3DPTerraced£233,750
1 Jul 201414 DH1 3DPTerraced£270,000
11 Jul 20115 DH1 3DPTerraced£200,000
14 Nov 200811 DH1 3DPSemi-detached£200,000
24 Oct 20085 DH1 3DPTerraced£165,000
26 May 200612 DH1 3DPTerraced£205,000
2 Dec 20059 DH1 3DPTerraced£210,000
14 Dec 20048 DH1 3DPTerraced£200,000
26 Sep 20032 DH1 3DPTerraced£300,000
14 Aug 200118 DH1 3DPSemi-detached£107,255
13 Jul 20019 DH1 3DPTerraced£136,000
14 Feb 20017 DH1 3DPTerraced£60,000
26 Jan 200113 DH1 3DPTerraced£85,000
20 Jul 19997 DH1 3DPTerraced£103,000
16 Apr 19999 DH1 3DPTerraced£93,000
7 Aug 19982 DH1 3DPTerraced£92,500
6 Jul 199816 DH1 3DPTerraced£75,000
23 Dec 199614 DH1 3DPTerraced£85,000
7 Nov 19963 DH1 3DPSemi-detached£20,000
10 Sep 199612 DH1 3DPTerraced£70,000
17 Aug 19959 DH1 3DPTerraced£72,000
7 Jul 199515 DH1 3DPTerraced£69,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (12); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 1900-1929 (11); 1930-1949 (4); 2007-2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (10); owner-occupied (3); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (38% of about 1,830 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Durham City. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 1 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 13 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
DH1 3DPnot in 2 or 3 13 / 3 / 1 unlikely
DH1 3DWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 53 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
DH1 3DP100%100%100%0%
DH1 3DW100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsDurham 2.8 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Chester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–259.4 km (5.9 miles)
Bishop Auckland 169,000 journeys in 2024–2514.3 km (8.9 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest New Inn - Church Street Durham90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Stand L Durham1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Prince Bishops Car Park750 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME30.4 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL30.8 km (19 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Claypath & University Medical Group1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots810 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingsgate Dental Practice320 m
HospitalUniversity Hospital Of North Durham2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationDurham Police Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machinesCashpoint® 19 Market Place Lloyds Bank830 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,380 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6.1 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 750 m²90 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha80 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,900 m²850 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 6.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Oswald, a listed building (Grade II*), 190 m north. 360 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 37 of them Grade I and 20 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St OswaldListed building, Grade II*190 m north
Wall Behind St John's College From Nos. 1 to 11 Consecutive, and Garden House Attached Behind No. 11Listed building, Grade I290 m north-west
St John's CollegeListed building, Grade II*320 m north-west
Durham Prison Officer's Club (The Tithe Barn)Listed building, Grade II*320 m north-east
The Water GateScheduled monument390 m west
Prebend's BridgeScheduled monument490 m (0.3 miles) west
Durham Castle and CathedralWorld Heritage Site500 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Maiden Castle promontory fortScheduled monument660 m (0.4 miles) east
Old Durham GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Battle of Neville's Cross 1346Registered battlefield2 km (1.3 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Count's CornerLake or reservoir400 m (0.2 miles) west
Whinney HillHill430 m (0.3 miles) east
Little High WoodWood440 m (0.3 miles) south
Maiden Castle WoodWood620 m (0.4 miles) east
Buckshill PlantationWood720 m (0.4 miles) south
Deerness ValleyValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6420
55 to 5910
Under 551720

3 of the street's 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for County Durham: see them on the County Durham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Oswald's Church of England Aided Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11140 m No published inspection
St Margaret's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Durham Sixth Form Centre16 plus16–191.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Laurel Avenue Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Neville's Cross Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Durham Johnston Comprehensive SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate Roman CatholicPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Durham University - Circolo Bistro DH1 3LERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Whitechurch DH1 3DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
St Oswalds Church Institute DH1 3DQOther catering premises180 mExempt
Kings Church Durham (Ltd) DH1 3DQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
Durham University - Maths & Computer Science Cafe DH1 3LERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good4 Nov 2024
Durham University - Chemistry Cafe DH1 3LERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good10 Dec 2024
Durham University - Small Island Cafe DH1 3LYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026
Victoria Inn DH1 3ASPub/bar/nightclub280 m4 Good27 Feb 2025
The Rabbit Hole DH1 3ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Durham University - Engineering Common Room DH1 3LERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good9 May 2025
Durham University - St John's College DH1 3RJSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
The Tythe Barn Prison Officers Club DH1 3BJPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good15 Aug 2025
Durham University - St Cuthberts Society DH1 3EESchool/college/university340 m5 Very good10 Jun 2024
St Cuthbert's Society JCR DH1 3EEMobile caterer340 m5 Very good17 Sep 2024
Durham University - North Bailey Club DH1 3EWPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good13 Jan 2022

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

80 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Anti-social behaviour17
Other theft10
Public order8
Vehicle crime7
Bicycle theft6
Criminal damage and arson6
Burglary4
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Oswald Court (28); On or near Boyd Street (12); On or near Stockton Road (11); On or near Hallgarth Street (10); On or near Church Street Head (8).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 573 residents in 202 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age2340
Children under 150%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)15%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented79%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work18%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)17%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)55%32%
Travel to work by car or van16%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle27%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualificationsunder 1%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, end-terrace (lodged 30 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • DH1 3DP: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • DH1 3DW: 2 addresses of 12 in the postcode

Nearby streets

High Wood View · Gladstone Villas · High Wood Terrace · Church Street Head · Church Street · Oswald Court · Back Mount Joy · Hallgarth Street · Stockton Road · Church Lane · Whinney Hill · Whinney Hill

All the streets in DH1 and across County Durham.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.