Durham Road Stanley, County Durham

93 addresses across 11 postcodes (DH9), about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 11014214.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £115,000 across 3 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in County Durham cost £140,788 in August 2026 (+4.9% on a year); private rents averaged £653 a month.
  • Energy: 57 homes have an energy certificate (C: 35, D: 21, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: 5 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Area E Holly Hill, is 250 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 10 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 334 times (705 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 263 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester-Le-Street, about 6.6 km (4.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 137 to 192 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 75 of its 93 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stanley Medical Group, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 2,380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 14% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 34 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20253£115,000£115,000£119,950
20232£69,000£53,000£85,000
20201£60,550£60,550£60,550
20191£68,500£68,500£68,500
20181£53,000£53,000£53,000
20162£68,750£67,500£70,000
20131£55,000£55,000£55,000
20121£49,000£49,000£49,000
20111£45,500£45,500£45,500
20071£100,000£100,000£100,000
20064£79,750£74,000£83,000
20052£75,475£65,000£85,950
All 31 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Jul 202312 DH9 6LSTerraced£53,000
10 Jul 201812 DH9 6LSTerraced£53,000
9 Mar 201212 DH9 6LSTerraced£49,000
27 May 201112 DH9 6LSTerraced£45,500
4 Jun 201316 DH9 6LSTerraced£55,000
7 Jul 200633 DH9 6QQTerraced£78,000
5 Feb 200141 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£25,000
27 Jun 202547 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£115,000
24 Jun 201647 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£67,500
19 Mar 200749 DH9 6QYTerraced£100,000
18 Jul 200351 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£44,000
12 Apr 200552 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£85,950
8 Aug 199752 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£59,999
23 Aug 201953 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£68,500
8 Sep 200653 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£81,500
18 Sep 202555 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£115,000
23 Jun 202355 DH9 6QYSemi-detached£85,000
22 Oct 202060 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£60,550
19 Oct 200160 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£37,000
8 Jun 201669 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£70,000
17 Mar 200669 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£83,000
26 Jul 200570 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£65,000
11 Jan 200270 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£33,500
27 Jan 201673 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£54,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jul 200674 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£74,000
27 Sep 200274 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£38,000
3 Aug 199874 DH9 6QXSemi-detached£25,000
26 Jun 202579 DH9 6QUSemi-detached£119,950
18 Oct 200480 DH9 6QUTerraced£80,000
28 Nov 200380 DH9 6QUTerraced£67,500
25 Apr 2025HOLLIE HILL NURSING HOME DH9 6QZOther£2,953,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in County Durham

A typical home in County Durham cost £140,788 in August 2026, 4.9% more than a year before. That is 19% more than five years earlier and 43% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£238,105
Semi-detached£141,657
Terraced£117,275
Flat or maisonette£79,042
Bought by a first-time buyer£125,556

Private renters in County Durham paid £653 a month on average in September 2026, 6.1% more than a year before. That is 34% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£459
Two bedrooms£582
Three bedrooms£697
Four or more bedrooms£1,004

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

57 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 57 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (24); Bungalow, mid-terrace (23); Bungalow, end-terrace (7). Built: 1950-1966 (30); 1930-1949 (24); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (29); owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (57 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,252 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 2,355 kWh of electricity, 13% less than the district's 2,714 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DH9 6QX183,110 kWh 2014,278 kWh
DH9 6QY182,587 kWh 1811,263 kWh
DH9 6QQ181,796 kWh 207,408 kWh
DH9 6LR81,750 kWh 87,656 kWh
DH9 6LS82,139 kWh 88,668 kWh
DH9 6QU64,003 kWh 513,313 kWh
DH9 6BD191,308 kWh 1912,844 kWh
DH9 6BA452,909 kWh 4812,753 kWh
DH9 6DL361,568 kWh 369,331 kWh
DH9 6HN251,798 kWh 2510,726 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is DH9.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (83% of about 4,450 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 5 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • 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.

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.

Energy projects nearby

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Holmside Hall County Durham 2002/304 Wind 2 turbines 2.8 MW Operational Jun 2004 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Chapman's Well County Durham CMA/1/8 Landfill Gas 1 MW Operational Mar 2003 3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Langley Moor Wind 4 turbines 8 MW Operational Aug 2008 3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Greencroft Estate Turbines County Durham CMA/1/51 Wind 2 turbines 4 MW Operational Mar 2013 4.2 km (2.6 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 17 March 2027 to 27 August 2027: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 5 October 2026 to 9 October 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (standard works)
  • 15 August 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge, footpath (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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 17 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
DH9 6QXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 6QYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
DH9 6QQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 6LRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
DH9 6LSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 6QUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DH9 6BDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
DH9 6QZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DH9 6BAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DH9 6DLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 6HNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

10 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 334 times, for 705 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Stanley Burn Trib, Twizell Burn Tributary, Stanley Burn, Stanley Burn Tributary and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
50 Woodside Gardens Cso Northumbrian Water Stanley Burn Trib 13 31 90 m
Kimberley Gardens Cso (Der 82) Northumbrian Water Twizell Burn Tributary 60 141 100 m
Holyhill Gardens East Cso Northumbrian Water Stanley Burn 44 102 120 m
The Middles Cso Northumbrian Water Stanley Burn Trib 54 86 150 m
Durham Road Cso Northumbrian Water Stanley Burn Tributary 22 18 220 m
Nightingale Place Cso Northumbrian Water Stanley Burn, Tributary of 58 141 220 m
Hustledown Stw Northumbrian Water Twizell Burn 23 130 280 m
Front Street Cso Northumbrian Water Stanley Burn Tributary 9 3 370 m

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

5 of the street's 11 postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 6 more are elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 250 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Area E Holly Hill Derwentside, County Durham Not recorded Not recorded 250 m
Twizell Hall Farm Twizell Hall Farm,Beamish, Chester-le-Street, County Durham Not recorded Inert, industrial 280 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 93 addresses are between 137 m and 192 m above sea level (166 m on average); the ground rises about 55 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
DH9 6BA100%92%100%0%
DH9 6BD100%100%100%0%
DH9 6DL100%83%92%0%
DH9 6HN100%96%100%0%
DH9 6LR100%63%100%0%
DH9 6LS100%100%100%0%
DH9 6QQ100%100%100%0%
DH9 6QU100%100%100%0%
DH9 6QX100%100%100%0%
DH9 6QY100%100%100%0%
DH9 6QZ100%100%0%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 stationsChester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–2510.4 km (6.4 miles)
Durham 2.8 million journeys in 2024–2511 km (6.8 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Aged Miners Homes Bloemfontein180 m
Bus or coach stationStanley Bus Station Stand A1.6 km (1 mile)
Car parksAsda Stanley Car Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station320 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL19.9 km (12 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stanley Medical Group Outstanding Jan 20171.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Craghead Pharmacy320 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalSouth Moor Hospital580 m (0.4 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hollie Hill Good Jul 2026540 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationStanley Police1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Tyne Road Cashzone1.4 km (0.9 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 9,740 m²600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 160 m²280 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,370 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Craghead Community Allotments 2.5 ha250 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dene WoodWood90 m east
Stanley WoodWood430 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Middles WoodWood450 m (0.3 miles) west
Holly HillHill490 m (0.3 miles) west
Fawside DeneValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Horse ShoeLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-east

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)5.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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
65 to 6970
60 to 64550
55 to 59130
Under 551893

75 of the street's 93 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), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Bloemfontein Primary SchoolPrimary0–11400 m (0.2 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Stanley Burnside Primary SchoolPrimary2–11680 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, South Moor Roman CatholicPrimary4–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 22% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 32% in 2023)
South Stanley Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
South Stanley Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection None published
East Stanley SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
North Durham AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 39.9 (39.8 in 2025 and 39.8 in 2024); 27.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
Greenland Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 84% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary, Stanley Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 390 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Bloemfontein Nursery DH9 6AG Full day care 12 Not inspected yet 390 m
Craghead Childcare Centre DH9 6AG Full day care 38 Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 390 m

Ofsted also registers 167 childminders and 16 home childcarers (nannies) in Durham. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Craghead Village Hall DH9 6ANOther catering premises280 m5 Very good7 Sep 2022
Sweet Garden DH9 6DDTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory31 Jan 2026
Premier - Craghead Convenience Store DH9 6DDRetailers - other330 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Craghead Social Club DH9 6ANPub/bar/nightclub330 m4 Good4 Nov 2022
.UK Pizza DH9 6DDTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m3 Generally satisfactory31 Jan 2026
UK pizza DH9 6DDTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026
St Stephens Centre DH9 6PGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good3 Jun 2025
The Bread and Butter Thing DH9 6PGRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good2 Apr 2026
Middles Superstore DH9 6ASRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good16 Dec 2025

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.

34 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Public order5
Anti-social behaviour4
Other crime3
Possession of weapons1
Criminal damage and arson1
Other theft1
Burglary1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Austen Place (19); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (10); On or near Durham Road (3); On or near Denewood Court (2).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 3 serious and 2 slight, in which 3 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202131
202200
202300
202400
202522
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
10 Aug 2025 12:55 Serious 2 people: 2 children B6532, 30 mph Daylight
16 Jul 2025 18:08 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
16 Jun 2021 19:10 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
23 May 2021 12:45 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
26 Feb 2021 16:33 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the Minor road, with 263 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 170 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 263 counted 2025 0% 170 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 8 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,375 residents in 1,026 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 age3840
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented46%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)14%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 5 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 3 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, bungalow, mid-terrace (lodged 30 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, bungalow, mid-terrace (lodged 29 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • DH9 6QX: 22 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • DH9 6QY: 21 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • DH9 6QQ: 20 addresses
  • DH9 6LR: 8 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • DH9 6LS: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • DH9 6QU: 7 addresses
  • DH9 6BD: 2 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • DH9 6QZ: 2 addresses
  • DH9 6BA: 1 address of 56 in the postcode
  • DH9 6DL: 1 address of 43 in the postcode
  • DH9 6HN: 1 address of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Denewood Court · Austen Place · Ettrick Terrace North · Bronte Place · Cloverhill Court · Middles Road · Pankhurst Place · Nightingale Place · Middles Road · South View · Wooler Drive · Cavell Place

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.