Kirkham Close Newton Aycliffe, County Durham

20 addresses across 2 postcodes (DL5), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33909515.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £130,798 across 2 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: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 5).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • 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 Newton Aycliffe, about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Town Park, is about 910 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 96 to 98 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 20 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Jubilee Medical Group, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20242£130,798£126,595£135,000
20221£149,000£149,000£149,000
20211£95,000£95,000£95,000
20202£112,975£107,950£118,000
20171£124,000£124,000£124,000
20141£85,500£85,500£85,500
20132£90,225£85,500£94,950
20104£116,750£95,000£134,995
20091£96,000£96,000£96,000
20071£100,000£100,000£100,000
20062£116,475£108,000£124,950
20052£99,000£94,000£104,000
All 42 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Mar 20131 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£94,950
7 Feb 19971 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£38,500
10 Nov 20062 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£108,000
11 Nov 20052 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£104,000
25 Oct 20022 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£57,000
3 Nov 19952 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£41,000
20 Sep 20243 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£135,000
10 Aug 20213 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£95,000
10 Feb 20143 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£85,500
5 Aug 20133 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£85,500
4 Jul 20073 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£100,000
11 Aug 20003 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£40,000
5 Mar 20254 DL5 4RSOther£135,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Dec 20025 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£54,000
3 Sep 19995 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£39,500
31 May 19955 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£38,000
12 Nov 20107 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£134,995
13 Mar 19987 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£39,000
12 Jan 20248 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£126,595
30 Sep 20208 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£107,950
15 Oct 20108 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£95,000
20 Aug 20048 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£99,995
20 Feb 20048 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£71,000
24 Sep 19998 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£42,000
16 Oct 20209 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£118,000
24 Sep 20109 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£101,000
10 Aug 20099 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£96,000
19 Aug 20059 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£94,000
29 Jan 19999 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£43,500
10 Sep 19979 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£39,000
21 May 200410 DL5 4RSDetached£88,000
24 Jul 199810 DL5 4RSDetached£42,500
30 Apr 199912 DL5 4RSDetached£59,995
25 Aug 200014 DL5 4RSDetached£67,500
12 Aug 201015 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£132,500
24 Apr 200115 DL5 4RSSemi-detached£59,500
15 Nov 200616 DL5 4RSDetached£124,950
9 Jul 199916 DL5 4RSDetached£49,000
4 Nov 202218 DL5 4RSDetached£149,000
21 Jun 200218 DL5 4RSDetached£72,000
14 Apr 200018 DL5 4RSDetached£51,000
15 Sep 201719 DL5 4RSDetached£124,000

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

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, detached (3). Built: 1983-1990 (9); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,511 kWh of it on average in 2024, 15% less than the district's 11,148 kWh, and 2,067 kWh of electricity, 26% less than the district's 2,805 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DL5 4RS182,049 kWh 189,557 kWh
DL5 4RR161,398 kWh 156,547 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 DL5.

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (38% of about 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 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.

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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Preston Road AD Plant (Waste AD) County Durham CMA/7/74 Anaerobic digestion 2.8 MW Operational Oct 2013 3 km (1.9 miles)
Chilton Energy Plant County Durham 7/2008/0522/DM Biomass 18 MW Operational Mar 2012 4 km (2.5 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 5 August 2026: BT, New service connection, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 3 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
DL5 4RSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
DL5 4RRnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 1 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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

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

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 20 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
DL5 4RR100%100%100%0%
DL5 4RS100%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 stationsNewton Aycliffe 78,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Heighington 37,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Shildon 60,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stag Lane Woodham240 m
Bus or coach stationTown Centre Ferryhill6.4 km (4 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station840 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME16.4 km (10 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL45.8 km (28 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 Jubilee Medical Group Good Jan 2023790 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Village Pharmacy790 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Woodham Dental Surgery200 m
HospitalBishop Auckland Hospital7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Care homes10 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bethany House Care Home Requires improvement Jan 2026150 m
Police stationNewton Aycliffe Police Station1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesGo Local, Newton Aycliffe1 km (0.6 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 gardenTown Park 2.7 ha910 m (0.6 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 180 m²100 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha40 m
AllotmentsSt Oswalds Allotments 1.8 ha1 km (0.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Windlestone Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Windlestone HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
South Agnew PlantationWood320 m west
Agnew PlantationWood540 m (0.3 miles) north-west
North Agnew PlantationWood650 m (0.4 miles) north-west
New PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Tuft HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Gurney ValleyValley4.9 km (3.1 miles) north-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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

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 5910
Under 551920

1 of the street's 20 addresses is 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), 5 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
Woodham AcademySecondary11–16730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 50.5 (48.2 in 2025 and 46.4 in 2024); 46.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Newton Aycliffe Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Vane Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 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 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Woodham Burn Community Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 51% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)
Sugar Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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: Outstanding 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 82% in 2023)
Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 29% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 29% in 2024 and 37% in 2023)
Byerley Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 47% 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

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 440 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Aycliffe Day Nursery DL5 4QZ Full day care 28 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 440 m (0.3 miles)
House of Eden DL5 4SF Full day care 83 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 790 m (0.5 miles)
St Oswald's Pre-School DL5 4BG Full day care 52 Outstanding (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

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 5 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
Premier - Woodham Village Store DL5 4UERetailers - other200 m5 Very good14 Feb 2024
Reds Fish Bar DL5 4UETakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Sunny House DL5 4UETakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
Bengal Lounge DL5 4UERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Woodham Pizza DL5 4UETakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
The Huntsman DL5 4UEPub/bar/nightclub250 m4 Good7 May 2026
The Bake Box DL5 4QZOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Anti-social behaviour12
Public order3
Burglary2
Shoplifting2
Criminal damage and arson2
Bicycle theft1
Drugs1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Coppice (11); On or near Village Close (9); On or near Beaumont Close (5); On or near Clover Court (4); On or near Pemberton Road (3).

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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 263 residents in 124 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 age5340
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van77%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

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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.

Nearby streets

Beaumont Close · Egerton Grove · Harebell Meadows · Pemberton Road · Dudley Drive · Clover Court · Farnham Close · Village Close · Sorrel Wynd · Howson Crescent · Yarrow Court · The Coppice

All the streets in DL5 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; 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.