Claypath Durham

202 addresses across 8 postcodes (DH1), about 80 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 11712972.

  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 1, E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: 3 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 50% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Durham, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Wharton Park, is about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 38 to 51 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 152 of its 203 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Claypath & University Medical Group, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 19% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,063 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 November 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 52 m². Most common: Flat (7); Maisonette, mid-terrace (2); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (8); 2012-2021 (1); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5); rented (social) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 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: 10.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

  • 21 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 14 September 2026 to 15 September 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 24 August 2026 to 28 August 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 17 August 2026 to 18 August 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 16 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 14 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 8 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
DH1 3NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 3NEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 3NBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 3NGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 3PNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 3HLzone 2 0 / 0 / 15 unlikely
DH1 3NLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 3RAzone 3 3 / 0 / 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 203 addresses are between 38 m and 51 m above sea level (43 m on average); the ground rises about 13 m from the lowest to the highest.

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 3HL87%84%84%0%
DH1 3NB100%100%100%0%
DH1 3NE100%100%100%0%
DH1 3NG100%100%100%0%
DH1 3NJ96%50%50%0%
DH1 3NL100%100%100%0%
DH1 3PN100%100%100%0%
DH1 3RA92%92%92%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 2024–25490 m (0.3 miles)
Chester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.4 miles)
Bishop Auckland 169,000 journeys in 2024–2514.9 km (9.2 miles)
Bus stops20 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Market Place Durham10 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Stand L Durham410 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Prince Bishops Car Park140 m
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station390 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL29.9 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 Group560 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots20 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridge House Dental Surgery230 m
HospitalUniversity Hospital Of North Durham1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationDurham Police Station370 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 19 Market Place Lloyds Bank70 m

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wharton Park 5.0 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 210 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.6 ha830 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Margarets Allotments 2.3 ha670 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 5.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Statue of Third Marquess of Londonderry, a listed building (Grade II*), 30 m. 404 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 40 of them Grade I and 23 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Statue of Third Marquess of LondonderryListed building, Grade II*30 m
Town Hall and GuildhallListed building, Grade II*40 m
18, Elvet BridgeListed building, Grade I110 m south-east
Castle Wall Around Motte on West, North and East SidesListed building, Grade I140 m south-west
Elvet BridgeScheduled monument170 m south-east
Framwellgate BridgeScheduled monument200 m south-west
Durham Castle and CathedralWorld Heritage Site390 m south
The Water GateScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) south
Old Durham GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Battle of Neville's Cross 1346Registered battlefield1.7 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Windy HillHill700 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Count's CornerLake or reservoir840 m (0.5 miles) south
Shaw WoodWood850 m (0.5 miles) west
Whinney HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Crossgate MoorWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Deerness ValleyValley3.6 km (2.2 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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 691040
60 to 64280
55 to 59190
Under 5551203

152 of the street's 203 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), 1 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
Durham Sixth Form Centre16 plus16–19380 m No published inspection
St Oswald's Church of England Aided Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11930 m (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
St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 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 SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 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
Neville's Cross Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Laurel Avenue Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Durham Gilesgate Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Boots UK Ltd DH1 3NBRetailers - other20 mExempt
Bells Fish & Chips DH1 3NERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good23 Feb 2026
The Picnic Basket DH1 3ULTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good10 Jan 2025
Greggs DH1 3NPRetailers - other40 m5 Very good22 Oct 2024
Market Tavern DH1 3NJPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good19 Nov 2024
Norse DH1 3NJPub/bar/nightclub50 m4 Good19 Aug 2026
Whittard of Chelsea DH1 3NERetailers - other50 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Durham Distillery DH1 3ULRetailers - other50 m5 Very good10 Oct 2023
Cafe Cenno DH1 3NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Market Hall Wines DH1 3NJRetailers - other60 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Health Barn DH1 3NJRetailers - other60 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Market Cheese and Deli DH1 3NJRetailers - other60 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
The Nook DH1 3NJRetailers - other60 m5 Very good3 Oct 2024
IK Fish DH1 3NJRetailers - other60 m4 Good21 Jan 2026
Card Factory DH1 3NJRetailers - other60 mExempt

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.

1,063 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences378
Anti-social behaviour221
Shoplifting155
Public order121
Other theft58
Criminal damage and arson55
Burglary16
Robbery15
Drugs10
Other crime9
Possession of weapons8
Theft from the person8
Vehicle crime6
Bicycle theft3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (295); On or near Market Place (171); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (108); On or near Shopping Area (99); On or near Framwelgate Bridge (95).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,621 residents in 344 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 age2240
Children under 15under 1%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)19%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented75%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work13%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)24%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)51%32%
Travel to work by car or van16%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications3%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Bar 33 (pub/bar/nightclub, DH1 4EY) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 25 September 2026) found 31 October 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.

Nearby streets

Market Place · Back Silver Street · Walkergate · Market Place · Millennium Place · Back Silver Street · Saddler Street · Claypath · Lambton Walk · Elvet Bridge · Framwelgate Bridge · Blue Coat Court

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.