Toft Crescent Murton, County Durham

105 addresses across 8 postcodes (SR7), about 700 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 11907744.

  • Sales: 58 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £93,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 74 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 29, D: 39, E: 5).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Seaham, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 117 to 128 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 105 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Murton Medical Centre, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 221 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
20251£93,500£93,500£93,500
20241£95,000£95,000£95,000
20232£127,500£100,000£155,000
20222£109,500£76,000£143,000
20211£75,000£75,000£75,000
20202£81,000£75,000£87,000
20181£50,000£50,000£50,000
20173£73,000£67,000£91,000
20153£48,000£35,500£65,000
20141£45,000£45,000£45,000
20121£50,000£50,000£50,000
20115£70,000£50,000£77,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 58)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Jul 202584 SR7 9EATerraced£93,500
18 Jul 202534 SR7 9JQTerraced£55,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Nov 202440 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£95,000
8 Dec 2023117 SR7 9EASemi-detached£155,000
20 Nov 20233 SR7 9JGSemi-detached£100,000
25 Jan 202370 SR7 9EBSemi-detached£109,950Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Aug 2022122 SR7 9EASemi-detached£143,000
22 Jul 202211 SR7 9JGSemi-detached£76,000
28 Oct 202162 SR7 9EDSemi-detached£75,000
7 Oct 202123 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£90,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 202091 SR7 9EASemi-detached£87,000
28 Sep 2020122 SR7 9EASemi-detached£75,000
6 Jan 202012 SR7 9JGTerraced£66,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Jul 201853 SR7 9DYSemi-detached£50,000
24 Jul 2017117 SR7 9EASemi-detached£91,000
16 Jun 201722 SR7 9JQTerraced£67,000
9 Jun 201727 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£73,000
28 Sep 201589 SR7 9EASemi-detached£48,000
27 Aug 201572 SR7 9EBSemi-detached£65,000
30 Apr 201529 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£35,500
4 Feb 201556 SR7 9DYSemi-detached£35,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Oct 20146 SR7 9JGSemi-detached£45,000
10 Oct 2014116 SR7 9EASemi-detached£68,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jan 201261 SR7 9EDSemi-detached£50,000
18 Nov 201128 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£51,000
8 Jul 2011123 SR7 9EASemi-detached£70,000
8 Jun 201111 SR7 9JGSemi-detached£77,000
8 Mar 20113 SR7 9JGSemi-detached£50,000
4 Feb 20118 SR7 9JGSemi-detached£73,000
24 Sep 200770 SR7 9EBSemi-detached£110,000
13 Jul 20072 SR7 9JGTerraced£84,450
13 Jun 200766 SR7 9EDSemi-detached£109,950
9 Feb 200794 SR7 9DZTerraced£50,000
16 Dec 200539 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£77,000
27 May 200529 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£50,000
21 Jan 200524 SR7 9JQTerraced£55,950
10 Sep 200434 SR7 9JQTerraced£40,000
9 Jul 200470 SR7 9EBSemi-detached£70,000
8 Apr 200439 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£60,000
31 Mar 200423 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£51,500
28 Nov 200323 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£21,500
28 Jul 200323 SR7 9JQSemi-detached£8,000
11 Jul 200370 SR7 9EBSemi-detached£23,000
6 Sep 2002123 SR7 9EASemi-detached£41,000
24 May 200234 SR7 9JQTerraced£18,500
23 Nov 200191 SR7 9EASemi-detached£35,000
17 Nov 200053 SR7 9DYSemi-detached£27,950
10 Nov 200078 SR7 9EBSemi-detached£31,995
26 Jan 2000121 SR7 9EASemi-detached£35,000
13 Sep 199994 SR7 9DZTerraced£5,000

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

74 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (56); House, mid-terrace (9); House, end-terrace (9). Built: 1930-1949 (43); 1950-1966 (25); 1967-1975 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (39); owner-occupied (25); rented (private) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (34 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (83% of about 2,330 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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: 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
SR7 9EAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR7 9JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR7 9JQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR7 9DYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR7 9EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR7 9EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
SR7 9DZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR7 9BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 105 addresses are between 117 m and 128 m above sea level (122 m on average); the ground rises about 12 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
SR7 9BF100%100%100%0%
SR7 9DY100%100%100%0%
SR7 9DZ100%100%100%0%
SR7 9EA100%100%100%0%
SR7 9EB100%100%100%0%
SR7 9ED100%100%100%0%
SR7 9JG100%100%100%0%
SR7 9JQ100%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 stationsSeaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Horden 165,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Sunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–259.5 km (5.9 miles)
Bus stops25 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 50 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Library - School Murton70 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Seaham4 km (2.5 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL31 km (19 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 Murton Medical Centre420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest G Whitfield Limited430 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalCherry Knowle Hospital5 km (3.1 miles)
Police stationDurham Police - Seaham Police Office3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM420 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,930 m²540 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 310 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Murton Recreation Ground 13 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,520 m²560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
GreenhillHill620 m (0.4 miles) east
Sandy HillHill710 m (0.4 miles) west
Dalton DeneValley820 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Carr House PlantationsWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Stephenson LakeLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) west
Nose's PointHeadland4.4 km (2.7 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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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
60 to 6420
55 to 5950
Under 5598105

7 of the street's 105 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), 3 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
Ribbon SchoolPrimary3–11150 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton Roman CatholicPrimary2–11570 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Murton Ribbon Academy 3517 SR7 9QRSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Tj's Diner SR7 9AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good22 Aug 2024
Go Local Convenience Store SR7 9BGRetailers - other330 m4 Good17 Sep 2024
Best One SR7 9LNRetailers - other340 m5 Very good7 May 2025
The Murton Club (Officials) Ltd SR7 9AAPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good12 Aug 2019
Murton Post Office SR7 9AARetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
China Gourmet SR7 9AATakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good23 Mar 2026
G Whitfield Chemist SR7 9AARetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Heart On The Terrace SR7 9ADRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jul 2025
Blinkrun DS SR7 9AARetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Swanton Care and Community Limited SR7 9RQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Dec 2024
Marinos SR7 9ADTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Mar 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.

221 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences95
Criminal damage and arson40
Anti-social behaviour27
Public order16
Vehicle crime12
Burglary8
Drugs7
Other theft6
Other crime5
Shoplifting2
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Watkin Crescent (55); On or near James Street South (46); On or near Henry Street South (30); On or near Mann Crescent (27); On or near Barnes Road (21).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,309 residents in 598 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 age3640
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented43%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications26%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 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

Nearby streets

Toft Crescent · Beech Avenue · Denewood · Coronation Court · Barnes Road · Cedar Crescent · Penzance Bungs · Henry Street North · Watkin Crescent · Cornwall Estate · Henry Street South · Burnip Road

All the streets in SR7 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.