Middridge Road Newton Aycliffe, County Durham

44 addresses across 20 postcodes (DL5), about 3 km (1.9 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 33914243.

  • 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.
  • Flood: 43 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Newton Aycliffe, about 440 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, West Park, is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 89 to 111 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 20 of its 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pease Way Medical Centre, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 3,790 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 52 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 4 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.

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

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,007 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 2,894 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DL5 7BG442,248 kWh 449,708 kWh
DL5 7DT443,058 kWh 448,849 kWh
DL5 7HG441,795 kWh 449,513 kWh
DL5 7HQ282,552 kWh 299,847 kWh
DL5 7HW122,244 kWh 1215,288 kWh
DL5 7LD183,112 kWh 1817,226 kWh
DL5 6TQ183,670 kWh 1815,417 kWh
DL5 7AW311,900 kWh 339,000 kWh
DL5 7BE352,736 kWh 3710,298 kWh
DL5 7BF551,943 kWh 547,477 kWh
DL5 7EN223,039 kWh 226,796 kWh
DL5 7EX46 15 Economy 72,548 kWh 449,577 kWh
DL5 7LQ302,720 kWh 3010,334 kWh
DL5 7PP582,439 kWh 5914,225 kWh
DL5 7PR441,734 kWh 4510,199 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (59% of about 3,990 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 6 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Field at School Aycliffe Lane Darlington 14/01305/FUL Solar farm 5 MW Operational Dec 2015 500 m (0.3 miles)
Preston Road AD Plant (Waste AD) County Durham CMA/7/74 Anaerobic digestion 2.8 MW Operational Oct 2013 920 m (0.6 miles)
Chilton Energy Plant County Durham 7/2008/0522/DM Biomass 18 MW Operational Mar 2012 4.4 km (2.8 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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 26 October 2026 to 1 November 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway, verge (standard works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 15 February 2027 to 8 March 2027: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 11 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (immediate - urgent works)
  • 9 September 2026 to 16 September 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway, verge (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, 33 addresses are in areas at high risk, 10 at medium risk and 30 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 44 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 26 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 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
DL5 7LFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DL5 7BGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DL5 7DDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DL5 7DTzone 2 16 / 3 / 8 unlikely
DL5 7HGnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DL5 5DEnot in 2 or 3
DL5 7HQnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 5 unlikely
DL5 7HWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DL5 7LDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DL5 6TQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
DL5 7AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DL5 7BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 0 unlikely
DL5 7BFnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 2 unlikely
DL5 7ENnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
DL5 7EXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 unlikely
DL5 7JLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DL5 7LEnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DL5 7LQnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely
DL5 7PPnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DL5 7PRnot in 2 or 3 4 / 3 / 3 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

16 of the street's 20 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; the rest are outside the coalfield.

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

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.

By postcode centre: less than 1% (20); 1 to 3% (1).

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

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 44 addresses are between 89 m and 111 m above sea level (100 m on average); the ground rises about 22 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
DL5 6TQ100%100%100%0%
DL5 7AW100%100%100%0%
DL5 7BE100%87%95%0%
DL5 7BF100%100%100%0%
DL5 7BG87%76%87%0%
DL5 7DD100%0%0%0%
DL5 7DT100%100%100%0%
DL5 7EN100%96%100%0%
DL5 7EX100%90%90%0%
DL5 7HG100%83%89%0%
DL5 7HQ100%90%100%0%
DL5 7HW100%100%100%0%
DL5 7JL100%100%100%0%
DL5 7LD100%89%100%0%
DL5 7LE100%100%100%0%
DL5 7LF50%50%50%0%
DL5 7LQ100%97%100%0%
DL5 7PP100%100%100%0%
DL5 7PR100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 2024–25440 m (0.3 miles)
Heighington 37,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Shildon 60,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eskdale Place Newton Aycliffe230 m
Bus or coach stationSt Johns RC School Yard Bishop Auckland7.4 km (4.6 miles)
EV charging pointsMer1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME16 km (9.9 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL47.4 km (29 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pease Way Medical Centre Good Sep 20161.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newton Pharmacy1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery1.7 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalBishop Auckland Hospital7 km (4.3 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lindisfarne Newton Aycliffe Good Feb 2025490 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationDurham Constabulary1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Newton Aycliffe Oakfields600 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 West Park 6.0 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²200 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7.9 ha290 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,870 m²1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 6.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tuft HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Cobbler's Hall PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Thickley WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
South Agnew PlantationWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
High PondLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) north
Gurney ValleyValley4.7 km (2.9 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)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.84015

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
65 to 6930
60 to 64100
55 to 5970
Under 552444

20 of the street's 44 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), 14 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
Greenfield AcademySecondary11–16570 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 37.7 (35.7 in 2025 and 37.7 in 2024); 28.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
St Francis Horndale CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 25% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 32% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 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)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11870 m (0.5 miles) 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)
Byerley Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 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)
Woodham Burn Community Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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 SchoolPrimary3–111.7 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)

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 850 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
House of Eden DL5 7DD Full day care 32 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 850 m (0.5 miles)
Playdays Nursery DL5 5HH Full day care 54 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 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 14 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
Junction 7 DL5 7DZOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Nov 2023
Horndale Post Office / Somal DL5 7DZRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 Oct 2026
Royal Pizza DL5 7DZTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jan 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.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Anti-social behaviour12
Criminal damage and arson11
Burglary4
Public order3
Other crime3
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Eskdale Place (52).

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.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 4 serious and 2 slight, in which 4 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 2 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 33% happened in the dark, and 17% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202220
202311
202422
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
1 Apr 2025 10:04 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 60 mph Daylight
9 Aug 2024 11:50 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
24 Jul 2024 23:12 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
17 Oct 2023 17:15 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 40 mph Daylight
17 Jun 2022 08:04 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child Minor road, 40 mph Daylight
26 Jan 2022 06:10 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, wet road

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 13 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 3,787 residents in 1,677 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 age4540
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented26%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 6 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Horndale Post Office / Somal (retailers - other, DL5 7DZ) now 4 Good, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 8 October 2026) found 13 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 8 October 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 11 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • DL5 7LF: 8 addresses
  • DL5 7BG: 6 addresses of 55 in the postcode
  • DL5 7DD: 4 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • DL5 7DT: 4 addresses of 59 in the postcode
  • DL5 7HG: 3 addresses of 61 in the postcode
  • DL5 5DE: 2 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • DL5 7HQ: 2 addresses of 42 in the postcode
  • DL5 7HW: 2 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • DL5 7LD: 2 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • DL5 6TQ: 1 address of 23 in the postcode
  • DL5 7AW: 1 address of 38 in the postcode
  • DL5 7BE: 1 address of 60 in the postcode
  • DL5 7BF: 1 address of 56 in the postcode
  • DL5 7EN: 1 address of 24 in the postcode
  • DL5 7EX: 1 address of 71 in the postcode
  • DL5 7JL: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
  • DL5 7LE: 1 address
  • DL5 7LQ: 1 address of 33 in the postcode
  • DL5 7PP: 1 address of 63 in the postcode
  • DL5 7PR: 1 address of 49 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Williamfield Way · Linden Place · Eskdale Place · Whinlatter Place · Elmfield Place · Langdale 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.