Tunstall Road Newton Aycliffe, County Durham

31 addresses across 1 postcode (DL5), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33909472.

  • Sales: 28 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £87,500 across 1 sale.
  • 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: 25 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 12, E: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A, which costs £1,748 a year in County Durham in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newton Aycliffe, about 850 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, West Park, is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 90 to 92 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pease Way Medical Centre, about 160 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Water: Supplied by Northumbrian Water.
  • Policing: Durham Constabulary: 11.1% of the crimes it recorded in 2025/26 had led to a charge or summons (England and Wales 9.3%); it answered 92.1% of 999 calls within 10 seconds (target 90%).
  • MP: Alan Strickland, Labour, MP for Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor.
  • Council: Aycliffe South ward, County Durham: Reform UK won all 3 seats at its latest election, on 1 May 2025.
  • Crime: 221 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.

See any home on its own: in the list of sales below, tap an underlined house number to open that home's page, with every energy certificate lodged for it and every sale matched to it.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20231£87,500£87,500£87,500
20211£116,500£116,500£116,500
20171£90,000£90,000£90,000
20162£82,000£70,000£94,000
20141£81,500£81,500£81,500
20131£95,000£95,000£95,000
20102£84,500£70,000£99,000
20071£81,500£81,500£81,500
20064£77,225£74,000£80,000
20052£85,000£75,000£95,000
20041£61,000£61,000£61,000
20011£37,000£37,000£37,000
All 28 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Feb 20142 DL5 7AHTerraced£81,500
19 Dec 20165 DL5 7AHTerraced£94,000
5 Aug 19965 DL5 7AHTerraced£36,500
16 Aug 20217 DL5 7AHTerraced£92,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 20239 DL5 7AHSemi-detached£87,500
22 Oct 20219 DL5 7AHSemi-detached£72,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 19959 DL5 7AHSemi-detached£39,000
21 Jul 201610 DL5 7AHTerraced£70,000
6 Apr 201711 DL5 7AHTerraced£90,000
7 Jan 201011 DL5 7AHTerraced£70,000
1 Jun 200112 DL5 7AHTerraced£37,000
4 Oct 201313 DL5 7AHTerraced£95,000
6 Oct 201013 DL5 7AHSemi-detached£99,000
24 Jun 200513 DL5 7AHSemi-detached£95,000
12 Jul 199613 DL5 7AHSemi-detached£36,750
16 Feb 200617 DL5 7AHTerraced£74,500
26 Nov 202120 DL5 7AHTerraced£116,500
4 Oct 200620 DL5 7AHTerraced£80,000
11 Jan 201921 DL5 7AHTerraced£62,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Dec 201821 DL5 7AHTerraced£65,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jul 200621 DL5 7AHTerraced£79,950
8 Oct 200421 DL5 7AHTerraced£61,000
6 Mar 202622 DL5 7AHTerraced£112,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 200623 DL5 7AHTerraced£74,000
21 Aug 202526 DL5 7AHTerraced£82,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Mar 200727 DL5 7AHSemi-detached£81,500
8 Jul 200527 DL5 7AHSemi-detached£75,000
14 Jul 199533 DL5 7AHSemi-detached£39,950

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

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (19); House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (23); 1967-1975 (1); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,015 kWh of it on average in 2024, 10% less than the district's 11,148 kWh, and 2,794 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the 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.

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£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 (95% of about 660 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 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Field at School Aycliffe Lane Darlington 14/01305/FUL Solar farm 5 MW Operational Dec 2015 1.6 km (1 mile)

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026: BT, New service connection, give and take, on the footway (minor 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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 15 November 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 15 November 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

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

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 postcode is in a 1 km square 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 31 addresses are between 90 m and 92 m above sea level (91 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 7AH100%97%100%0%

Water

This street's water is supplied by Northumbrian Water. The company gives the hardness and quality of the water at an address on its website.

Northumbrian Water does not publish the hardness of its tap samples as open data; only Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water do.

Sources: water company supply areas (Water UK) and tap samples from Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water, from Stream, CC BY 4.0.

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 2024–25850 m (0.5 miles)
Heighington 37,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Shildon 60,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops20 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stephenson Way Newton Aycliffe80 m
Bus or coach stationTown Centre Ferryhill8 km (5 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer530 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME15.5 km (9.6 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL47.3 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pease Way Medical Centre Good Sep 2016160 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newton Pharmacy160 m
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBishop Auckland Hospital7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Care homes10 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Clare's Court Good Sep 2025730 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationDurham Constabulary600 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Newton Aycliffe Oakfields500 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West Park 6.0 ha310 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 12 ha370 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 860 m²160 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Simpasture Playing Field 4.8 ha120 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,850 m²640 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 21 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
Warren PlantationWood1.5 km (1 mile) east
South Agnew PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Cobbler's Hall PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Agnew PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Tuft HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Old Mill RaceLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) south-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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
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
55 to 5920
Under 552931

2 of the street's 31 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), 15 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 Burn Community Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11380 m 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)
Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11390 m 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)
Sugar Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) 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 CatholicPrimary2–11610 m (0.4 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)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Newton Aycliffe Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 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)
St Francis Horndale CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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)
Vane Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 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)
Byerley Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 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)
Greenfield AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 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
Woodham AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 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

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

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 390 m 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) 390 m
Playdays Nursery DL5 5HH Full day care 54 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 540 m (0.3 miles)
Aycliffe Day Nursery DL5 4QZ Full day care 28 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
House of Eden DL5 4SF Full day care 83 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 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 15 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
Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery School (Juniors) DL5 7DDSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good30 Apr 2025
Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery School (Infants) DL5 7DDSchool/college/university310 m4 Good16 Jun 2026
Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centre DL5 4EHPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Newton Aycliffe Pathways Care Hub DL5 4EHOther catering premises360 m5 Very good4 Mar 2024
Embleton View School DL5 4LSSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Boots UK Ltd DL5 4DURetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Card Factory DL5 4DSRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Thames Diner DL5 4SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 May 2025
Admiral DL5 4SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Thames Butchers DL5 4SBRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 2026
Savers DL5 4DSRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
The Iron Horse DL5 5HQPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Jun 2024
Thames Fruit & Veg DL5 4DSRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Elachi Indian Restaurant DL5 4EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Dec 2024
Elachi Restaurant DL5 4EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good24 Aug 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

221 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences79
Anti-social behaviour75
Criminal damage and arson31
Public order12
Other theft6
Burglary6
Possession of weapons4
Other crime3
Drugs2
Vehicle crime1
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ashfield (41); On or near Ebba Close (36); On or near Wright Close (32); On or near Tunstall Road (22); On or near Bruce Road (19).

Policing

This street is policed by Durham Constabulary. Of the 59,462 crimes it recorded in 2025/26 (April to March), 11.1% had led to someone being charged or summonsed to court, against 9.3% across England and Wales.

In the 12 months November 2025 to October 2026 it answered 92.1% of its 106,171 999 calls within 10 seconds, against a national target of 90% and 89.6% across England and Wales.

What happened to the crimes recorded in 2025/26
OutcomeDurham ConstabularyEngland and Wales
Charged or summonsed11.1%9.3%
Dealt with out of court (caution, community resolution, penalty notice)3.1%4.4%
Closed with no suspect identified33.7%37.8%
Closed: the victim did not support further action25.9%25.4%
Closed: suspect identified, but not enough evidence15.6%15.1%
Other outcomes (not in the public interest, transferred elsewhere)7.2%3.9%
No outcome yet (still under investigation)3.3%4.0%

Each crime is counted under the outcome it had been given when the figures were taken, a few months after the year ended, so some recorded late in the year were still being investigated. Forces differ in the crimes they deal with (a city force has more shoplifting and fewer rural thefts), which changes these shares, so a difference from England and Wales is not by itself a measure of how well a force investigates. Fraud is not included: it is recorded nationally.

Sources: Home Office, Crime outcomes in England and Wales, open data tables, offences recorded in 2025/26, and 999 call answering data published on police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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: 299 residents in 133 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3740
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

Politics

This street is in the Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor constituency. Its MP is Alan Strickland, Labour.

2024 general election in Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
CandidatePartyVotesShareChange
Alan Strickland (elected)Labour18,394 46.2% +7.9
John GrantReform UK9,555 24.0% +16.2
Paul HowellConservative8,195 20.6% -25.6
Jack HughesGreen Party1,701 4.3% +2.8
Anne-Marie CurryLiberal Democrat1,491 3.7% -1.7
Brian AgarTransform Party264 0.7%
Minhajul SuhonWorkers Party of Britain246 0.6%

Labour gain from Conservative, with a majority of 8,839 votes (22.2%). 39,846 valid votes from an electorate of 72,215, a turnout of 55.3%.

Change is in percentage points of the vote on 2019, recalculated for the 2024 boundaries (the notional result), so it compares like with like where the constituency changed shape; it is blank where the party or candidate did not stand in 2019.

Sources: UK Parliament, election results for the 2024 general election, and the Members API for the current MP (as at 15 November 2026). Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Council: Aycliffe South ward, County Durham

This street is in this ward. Its latest election was on 1 May 2025, for 3 seats.

1 May 2025 in Aycliffe South
CandidatePartyVotes
John William Grant (elected)Reform UK1,459
Nicole Louise Brown (elected)Reform UK1,335
Andrew Eales (elected)Reform UK1,287
Jim AtkinsonLabour667
Paul HowellConservative589
John Joseph ClarkLabour556
Ken RobsonIndependent550
Toyin OgunyemiLabour396
Martin AshcroftIndependent363
Kyle RobinsonLiberal Democrat331
George Coulson GrayIndependent305
John WoodwardLiberal Democrat286
Tunde AkinsanyaLiberal Democrat286
Tony ArmstrongIndependent227
Neale Floyd Darryl CooleyGreen Party156

Turnout 29%.

Councils elect all their members every four years or a third of them in three years out of four, so the members for a ward can come from more than one election; a councillor may have changed party since being elected.

Source: council election candidates and results from Democracy Club, CC BY 4.0.

What has changed

  • Flood risk Flood risk figures for DL5 7AH changed: 0 addresses at high risk, 0 medium, 2 low (was 1, 1, 2) found 15 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centre (pub/bar/nightclub, DL5 4EH) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 8 October 2026) found 12 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: New service connection, 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026 (give and take) 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 7AH: 31 addresses of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Carileph Close · Paulinus Road · Ebba Close · Bruce Road · Canopus Close · Barrington Road · Beacon Court · Lightfoot Road · Wright Close · Priestman Road · Ashfield · Christopher Walk

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.