Front Street Dipton, County Durham

115 addresses across 23 postcodes (DH9), about 130 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 11005242.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £195,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 39 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 10, D: 14, E: 11).
  • Flood: 7 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 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 Blaydon, about 10.2 km (6.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 175 to 243 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 99 of its 115 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Drs Lambert & Ng, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 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
20241£195,000£195,000£195,000
20211£100,000£100,000£100,000
20201£126,000£126,000£126,000
20191£185,000£185,000£185,000
20181£170,000£170,000£170,000
20161£130,000£130,000£130,000
20142£154,950£154,950£154,950
20091£333,000£333,000£333,000
20051£145,000£145,000£145,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jul 2024THE KEEP DH9 9HQSemi-detached£195,000
23 Nov 2021DERWENTSIDE GLASS LTD DH9 9DFOther£20,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Aug 2021LONDON VILLA DH9 9AASemi-detached£100,000
7 Aug 2020LONDON COTTAGE DH9 9AATerraced£126,000
27 Sep 2019THE KEEP DH9 9HQSemi-detached£185,000
2 Jul 2018THE KEEP DH9 9HQSemi-detached£170,000
14 Sep 2017CHURCH VIEW DH9 9EYOther£140,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jun 2016ST JOHNS CHURCH DH9 9EYDetached£130,000
26 Sep 2014THE KEEP DH9 9HQSemi-detached£154,950
11 Sep 2014ROWAN TREE HOUSE DH9 9HQSemi-detached£154,950
25 Sep 2009FOXGLOVES DH9 9JHDetached£333,000
30 Sep 2005LONDON VILLA DH9 9AASemi-detached£145,000

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 December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

39 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 110 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); House, detached (6); House, end-terrace (6). Built: before 1900 (17); 1900-1929 (8); 2019 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (27 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (61% of about 1,560 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 2 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.

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 18 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 9DNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9DQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9HQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 6 unlikely
DH9 9EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 2 unlikely
DH9 9AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9JHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DH9 9EYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DH9 9DHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9GAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9HAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9DJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9DAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9DEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DH9 9DFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9DRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9HEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
DH9 9HRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
DH9 9AGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9BPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 9HBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 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 115 addresses are between 175 m and 243 m above sea level (236 m on average); the ground rises about 69 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 9AA100%100%100%0%
DH9 9AB100%100%100%0%
DH9 9AE100%100%100%0%
DH9 9AG100%100%100%0%
DH9 9BP100%100%100%0%
DH9 9DA100%100%100%0%
DH9 9DE100%100%100%0%
DH9 9DF100%100%100%0%
DH9 9DH100%100%100%0%
DH9 9DJ100%100%100%0%
DH9 9DN100%100%100%0%
DH9 9DQ100%100%100%0%
DH9 9DR100%100%100%0%
DH9 9EB100%89%89%0%
DH9 9ED100%0%0%0%
DH9 9EY100%100%100%0%
DH9 9GA100%100%100%0%
DH9 9HA100%100%100%0%
DH9 9HB100%100%100%0%
DH9 9HE100%100%100%0%
DH9 9HQ100%100%100%0%
DH9 9HR100%100%100%0%
DH9 9JH100%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 stationsBlaydon 69,000 journeys in 2024–2510.2 km (6.3 miles)
MetroCentre 632,000 journeys in 2024–2510.8 km (6.7 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–2511 km (6.8 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cooperative Terrace Dipton140 m
Bus or coach stationTanfield Comprehensive School Tanfield Lea3.4 km (2.1 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL18.3 km (11 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 surgeriesDrs Lambert & Ng2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dipton Pharmacy80 m
NHS dentistsSmile In Durham3 km (1.9 miles)
HospitalSouth Moor Hospital5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Police stationDurham Constabulary - Catchgate Police Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesBestone Cashzone1.9 km (1.2 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 170 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha140 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha30 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Pontop Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 690 m (0.4 miles) west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pontop HallListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) west
Collierley ChapelScheduled monument810 m (0.5 miles) north
Bantling Castle Lime KilnsScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Simpson's HillHill380 m south-east
Dipton WoodWood810 m (0.5 miles) north
Pontop PikeHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Ewehurst WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Lintzhall DeneValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Mill StreamLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) north

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)5.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)7.94015

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 69490
60 to 64360
55 to 59140
Under 5516115

99 of the street's 115 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
Collierley Nursery and Primary SchoolPrimary2–11220 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Dipton Roman CatholicPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection

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
Number 17 DH9 9ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good9 Apr 2026
Premier - Dipton Convenience Store DH9 9AHRetailers - other140 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Dipton Fisheries DH9 9AHTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good10 Jul 2025
The Hungry Caterpillar DH9 9AHRetailers - other150 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Dipton Workingmens Club DH9 9AQPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good9 Aug 2019
New Moti Jheel Ne Limited DH9 9DNTakeaway/sandwich shop200 mAwaiting inspection
Dipton Community Centre DH9 9DROther catering premises320 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
The Bread and Butter Thing DH9 9DRRetailers - other320 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026

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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Anti-social behaviour11
Other theft4
Public order4
Vehicle crime2
Drugs2
Other crime1
Burglary1
Shoplifting1
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Co-Operative Terrace (22); On or near George Street (6); On or near Coleridge Gardens (6); On or near Parking Area (5); On or near Catchwell Road (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,457 residents in 693 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 age4940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%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)25%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 6 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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

Front Street · George Street · Coleridge Gardens · Wesley Cottages · Cooperative Villas · Delight Row · Cooperative Terrace East · Cooperative Terrace West · Cooperative Terrace West · Co-Operative Terrace · Wordsworth Gardens · Catchwell Road

All the streets in DH9 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.