John Street Eldon Lane, County Durham

24 addresses across 2 postcodes (DL14), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42811372.

  • Sales: 66 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £26,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 11, E: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 13 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Shildon, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Shildon Recreation Ground, is about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 96 to 98 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hallgarth Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 14% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 258 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£26,000£26,000£26,000
20238£61,000£27,000£85,999
20202£53,250£26,500£80,000
20191£29,500£29,500£29,500
20182£21,000£19,500£22,500
20164£22,175£18,500£24,950
20151£18,500£18,500£18,500
20142£32,000£28,500£35,500
20131£18,000£18,000£18,000
20111£59,950£59,950£59,950
20093£55,000£50,000£55,000
20081£167,998£167,998£167,998
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 66)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Oct 202512 DL14 8TPTerraced£39,999Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Jun 202415 DL14 8TPTerraced£26,000
26 Mar 202415 DL14 8TPTerraced£27,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Nov 202321 DL14 8TPTerraced£85,999
6 Oct 20237 DL14 8TPTerraced£50,000
7 Sep 202310 DL14 8TPTerraced£78,999
24 Aug 202313 DL14 8TPTerraced£80,999
24 Aug 20239 DL14 8TPTerraced£71,999
21 Jul 202310 DL14 8TPTerraced£47,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jul 20239 DL14 8TPTerraced£47,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jul 202313 DL14 8TPTerraced£47,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jul 202321 DL14 8TPOther£47,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jun 20231 DL14 8TPTerraced£27,000
26 May 20231 DL14 8TPTerraced£20,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Apr 202318 DL14 8TPTerraced£39,500
6 Apr 202320 DL14 8TPTerraced£36,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 202320 DL14 8TPTerraced£29,950
6 Jan 202112 DL14 8TPTerraced£20,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Jun 202018 DL14 8TPTerraced£26,500
6 Mar 202011 DL14 8TPSemi-detached£80,000
21 Oct 201912 DL14 8TPTerraced£18,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Aug 201920 DL14 8TPTerraced£29,500
18 Dec 201818 DL14 8TPTerraced£19,500
13 Apr 201820 DL14 8TPTerraced£22,500
28 Oct 201620 DL14 8TPTerraced£24,950
21 Oct 201615 DL14 8TPTerraced£19,750
10 May 201615 DL14 8TPTerraced£18,500
31 Mar 20161 DL14 8TPTerraced£24,600
22 Jul 201520 DL14 8TPTerraced£18,500
24 Oct 201412 DL14 8TPTerraced£28,500
23 Jul 201412 DL14 8TPTerraced£15,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 May 201418 DL14 8TPTerraced£35,500
28 Apr 201420 DL14 8TPTerraced£18,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Jun 201315 DL14 8TPTerraced£18,000
17 Aug 20111 DL14 8TPSemi-detached£59,950
25 Feb 200914 DL14 8TPTerraced£55,000
25 Feb 200915 DL14 8TPTerraced£50,000
20 Feb 200920 DL14 8TPTerraced£55,000
1 Dec 200811 DL14 8TPSemi-detached£167,998
6 Aug 200719 DL14 8TPTerraced£54,000
30 Jul 200717 DL14 8TPTerraced£54,000
30 Jul 20072 DL14 8TPTerraced£54,000
6 Jul 20073 DL14 8TPTerraced£54,000
6 Jul 20074 DL14 8TPTerraced£54,000
6 Jul 20078 DL14 8TPTerraced£54,000
15 Nov 20052 DL14 8TPTerraced£38,000
28 Apr 20054 DL14 8TPTerraced£28,000
28 Apr 200519 DL14 8TPTerraced£28,000
28 Apr 200517 DL14 8TPTerraced£28,000
28 Apr 20058 DL14 8TPTerraced£28,000

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 July 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (16); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 1900-1929 (15); before 1900 (3); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (13); owner-occupied (5).

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 A (68% of about 1,000 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: 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.

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 9 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: of the 21 homes the Environment Agency counts, 3 are in areas at high risk, 9 medium, 2 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
DL14 8TPzone 3 4 / 9 / 2 unlikely
DL14 8TWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 24 addresses are between 96 m and 98 m above sea level (97 m on average).

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
DL14 8TP100%100%100%0%
DL14 8TW100%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 stationsShildon 60,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bishop Auckland 169,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Newton Aycliffe 78,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Spencer Street Eldon Lane30 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Stand H Bishop Auckland2.8 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME20.7 km (13 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL43.7 km (27 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 Hallgarth Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cheapside Pharmacy1.2 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 23-27 Main Street (Dental Surgery)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalBishop Auckland Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationShildon Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.3 km (0.8 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 gardenShildon Recreation Ground 13 ha1.6 km (1 mile)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²140 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dene Valley Community Park 2.9 ha100 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha410 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Auckland Castle Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.7 km (1.7 miles) north. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Auckland Castle ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gurney ValleyValley780 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Shawbrow HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Canney HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Brack's WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Sewell's WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
High PondLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) 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)4.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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
55 to 59120
Under 551224

12 of the street's 24 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
Prince Bishops Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11380 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thornhill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Andrew's AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's Church of England Aided Primary School, ShildonPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cockton Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cockton Hill Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Timothy Hackworth Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 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
Eldon Lane Convenience Store DL14 8TLRetailers - other40 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jan 2025
Pizza 4 U DL14 8TLTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Eldon Lane WMC & Institute Ltd DL14 8TLPub/bar/nightclub110 m4 Good18 Aug 2023
Dene Valley Community Cafe DL14 8TDTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good21 Aug 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.

258 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences89
Criminal damage and arson68
Anti-social behaviour44
Public order18
Other theft15
Vehicle crime7
Other crime7
Drugs5
Burglary3
Possession of weapons1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Edward Street (39); On or near Jackson Street (35); On or near Oxford Street (28); On or near John Street (27); On or near Wesley Street (25).

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: 242 residents in 133 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 age4640
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)13%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 van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)33%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away34%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)14%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • DL14 8TP: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • DL14 8TW: 1 address of 5 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dean Cottages · Field Houses · Edward Street · Spencer Street · Jackson Street · Brook Terrace · Johnson Street · Elliott Terrace · Moore Street · Arthur Street · Deanery Court · Randolph Street

All the streets in DL14 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.