County Durham

DH6 house prices in County Durham

Name: Sold house prices in DH6, County Durham
Creator: HM Land Registry
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for County Durham, from official UK data in one place.

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Summary

House prices in DH6: the typical (median) sold price is £111,825, well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). DH6 is an active market, with about 41 recorded sales a month. By property type, 46% were semi-detached homes (typically £113,013) and 36% were terraced homes (typically £94,499).

Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.

Across the 12 most recently sold DH6 postcodes we sampled, area deprivation has a median of decile 3 of 10, where 10 is the least deprived.

Source: Deprivation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025.

Our take · opinion, not advice

Our take on DH6: a steady market, so let the sold prices lead

Roughly 41 homes a month change hands in DH6, enough to learn from, though the year-on-year comparison is too thin to quote, so lean on the recent sold homes.

When selling here, the spread in DH6 is wide, with most sales between £60,000 and £230,000, so lean on the nearest like-for-like sale rather than the middle figure; sales arrive at a steady pace, so there is no need to rush to a low price.

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For buyers, typical prices in DH6 sit well below the UK average, so a lower price than the average is a prompt to ask why, not a reason to relax.

Before you offer in DH6, check planning history nearby (10 applications on record within 500 m), flood risk over the long term and the energy rating (EPC), and ask your conveyancer about the title.

Averages only go so far, so the free DH6 OfferCheck sets flood, crime, planning and council tax beside the sold prices.

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At a glance

DH6 in four numbers

The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.

Typical price
£111,825
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
40.7
Across 250 sales
Freehold sales
98%
Of recorded sales

The data, honestly

House prices in DH6

These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.

By property type

Average house price in DH6 by property type

Detached homes have the highest typical price at £245,000, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £75,000.

Detached£245,000

Semi-detached£113,013

Terraced£94,499

Flat / maisonette£75,000

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Sales, typical price and middle-80% range by property type in DH6
Type	Sales	Typical	Range
Detached	41	£245,000	£154,950–£322,000
Semi-detached	114	£113,013	£65,000–£171,400
Terraced	88	£94,499	£47,800–£153,600
Flat / maisonette	3	£75,000	£75,000–£127,000

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 18 Feb 2026 and 24 Aug 2026.

24-month trend

Typical price by quarter in DH6

The quarterly typical price rose 17.7%, from £110,000 in Q1 2026 (76 sales) to £129,500 in Q3 2026 (54 sales).

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Median sold price and number of recorded sales for each recent quarter in DH6
Quarter	Typical price	Sales
Q1 2026	£110,000	76
Q2 2026	£109,500	120
Q3 2026	£129,500	54

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 18 Feb 2026 and 24 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.

Range and mix

The spread of DH6 prices

How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.

Price range

Where most DH6 homes sold

Eight in ten sales fell between £60,000 and £230,000, around a typical £111,825.

Lower end£60,000

Typical£111,825

Upper end£230,000

Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 18 Feb 2026 and 24 Aug 2026.

Mix of homes

Who is selling in DH6

Semi-detached homes were 46% of recorded sales (114 of 246). 98% of sales were freehold and 2% leasehold.

Property type

Detached17%
Semi-detached46%
Terraced36%
Flat / maisonette1%

Tenure

Freehold98%
Leasehold2%

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246 freehold (98%) and 4 leasehold (2%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in DH6. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 18 Feb 2026 and 24 Aug 2026.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.

On the map

Where DH6 sits in County Durham

The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.

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Latest sales

The most recent sales in DH6

34, COOPERATIVE TERRACE, DURHAM
Terraced · Freehold · 24 Aug 2026
£105,000
7, LUKE TERRACE, DURHAM
Semi-detached · Freehold · 21 Aug 2026
£132,000
36, HILLSIDE VIEW, DURHAM
Semi-detached · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£190,000
62, SORREL CLOSE, DURHAM
Semi-detached · Freehold · 13 Aug 2026
£165,000
116, WOOD VIEW, DURHAM
Terraced · Freehold · 13 Aug 2026
£110,000

All sales

Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). DH6 includes the Bowburn & Coxhoe ward.

In plain English

What the County Durham (DH6) numbers mean

The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £245,000 against £94,499 for terraced homes: about 2.6 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £60,000 and £230,000, so the median says little about any one home.
Nearly all of these sales (98%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.

This is an active district: about 41 recorded sales a month.

Based on 250 recorded sales between 18 February 2026 and 24 August 2026. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, to 28 August 2026; page data refreshed 7 October 2026. Compared with the UK House Price Index. Written by Your Property Check (Check Labs Ltd, Birmingham) from this data. How we read the data · spotted a mistake? Tell us. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. UK House Price Index licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Area data

What else the records hold on DH6

Council tax and schools, each from the body that publishes it, with the sample it rests on stated beside it.

Council tax

What council tax costs in DH6

We don't hold published band charges for County Durham yet. Your billing authority publishes its own band table each year. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency: check a band on GOV.UK.

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities

Schools

Schools near DH6

open schools within 3 km, nearest Thornley Academy.

All schools

Thornley Academy
Primary · Academies · DH6 3DZ
1.8 km
Not graded
Ludworth Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DH6 1LZ
2.0 km
Good · 2014
Cassop Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DH6 4RA
2.2 km
Good · 2023
Wheatley Hill Community Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DH6 3RQ
3.0 km
Good · 2023

School data from the Department for Education “Get Information about Schools” (GIAS) and Ofsted inspection outcomes. Open Government Licence v3.0. The Ofsted grade shown is the last single overall grade on record (single grades were withdrawn in September 2024). Shows nearest schools by distance, not legal catchment areas. Distances are from the DH6 district centroid, not from any address.

Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 4 open schools within 3 km, 3 with a grade on record

Area context

Planning and deprivation near DH6

What is being built nearby and how the area ranks, as context for the neighbourhood and never a judgement on a home.

Planning applications

Planning activity around DH6

applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 4 October 2026.

Recent applications

CountyDurham/DM/21/01316/FPAPermitted
449 m
Erection of 1no amenity block
Received 2021-04-13 · decided 2021-06-09
CountyDurham/DM/19/03778/FPAPermitted
493 m
Erection of 1no. amenity block building in association with the camping and caravan park
Received 2019-12-04 · decided 2020-02-07
CountyDurham/DM/18/03257/VOCPermitted
451 m
Variation of Condition 11 of 4/98/694, further varied by 4/04/00033/VOC to remove the restriction on occupancy which currently prevents occupancy between 31 December to 1 March
Received 2018-10-25 · decided 2019-02-08
CountyDurham/DM/16/03492/MINUndecided
138 m
Eastern extension to provide soil storage
Received 2016-11-02
CountyDurham/DM/15/03851/MINUndecided
93 m
Environment Act 1995 - Periodic Review of Mining Sites at Witch Hill Quarry, Shadforth
Received 2015-12-11
CountyDurham/4/13/00066/FPAPermitted
466 m
Renewal of planning permission 4/09/00673 for the change of use of 13 no. touring caravan pitches and small tent field to provide 15 no. static lodges/twin unit caravans with associated landscaping
Received 2013-01-21 · decided 2013-03-14

Applications are matched within 500 m of the DH6 district centroid, so this is activity in the area, not at any one address. Register wording and status are reproduced as the local planning authority published them. Showing 6 of 10 held; run a live planning search for DH6 for the current picture.

Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 10 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 4 October 2026

Deprivation (IMD)

Area profile for DH6

Decile 3 of 10

Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.

1 · most deprived10 · least deprived

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Across the 12 sampled DH6 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 2 to decile 7, with a median of decile 3 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.

DH6 1DZ, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 3 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (English Indices of Deprivation 2025, MHCLG). Deprivation is published for small areas (LSOAs), not for postcode districts, so DH6 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in DH6: the ones with the most recent recorded sales, up to a limit of 12. That is a convenience sample, not a random one, so it leans toward streets where homes are changing hands. 12 returned a row. It is context for the neighbourhood, never a judgement on any individual home. How we choose the sample.

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · 12 postcodes sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices

Address by address

What individual homes in DH6 sold for

The 24 most recently sold doors of the 246 distinct addresses in the records we hold for DH6. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.

34, COOPERATIVE TERRACE, DURHAM
DH6 4DQ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£105,000
2026-08-24
7, LUKE TERRACE, DURHAM
DH6 3RX · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£132,000
2026-08-21
36, HILLSIDE VIEW, DURHAM
DH6 1DZ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£190,000
2026-08-14
62, SORREL CLOSE, DURHAM
DH6 2LB · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£165,000
2026-08-13
116, WOOD VIEW, DURHAM
DH6 5JB · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£110,000
2026-08-13
9, HESSEWELLE CRESCENT, DURHAM
DH6 2EQ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£60,000
2026-08-11
43, GRINT CLOSE, DURHAM
DH6 4BW · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£285,000
2026-08-11
17, REED CLOSE, DURHAM
DH6 4FD · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£124,250
2026-08-10
11, ST MARYS DRIVE, DURHAM
DH6 1RL · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£317,500
2026-08-07
15, PETTERSON DALE, DURHAM
DH6 4EZ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£220,000
2026-08-06
1A, GREENWOOD CLOSE, DURHAM
DH6 3QU · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£83,519
2026-08-06
46, MARLEY FIELDS, DURHAM
DH6 3AX · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£197,500
2026-08-06
17, REGENT COURT, DURHAM
DH6 2TT · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£125,000
2026-08-04
6, PARKINSON CRESCENT, DURHAM
DH6 1BS · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£290,000
2026-08-04
3, CHURCHILL TERRACE, DURHAM
DH6 1PF · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£125,000
2026-08-03
2, BURT CLOSE, DURHAM
DH6 2DA · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£70,000
2026-07-31
32, WILLIAM MORRIS TERRACE, DURHAM
DH6 2PL · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£89,999
2026-07-31
29, SCHOOL AVENUE, DURHAM
DH6 4NH · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£70,000
2026-07-31
3, GROUSEMOOR, DURHAM
DH6 2BU · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£210,000
2026-07-31
44, HENDERSON AVENUE, DURHAM
DH6 3RZ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£130,000
2026-07-31
DENETOP BUNGALOW, BRACKENHILL AVENUE, DURHAM
DH6 2QZ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£305,000
2026-07-31
12, PINEDALE DRIVE, DURHAM
DH6 2XG · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£144,500
2026-07-31
21, PEAT EDGE COURT, DURHAM
DH6 5FN · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£165,000
2026-07-31
19, PLANTATION WALK, DURHAM
DH6 2XQ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£330,000
2026-07-30

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so homes that have never sold do not appear. 0 of these 24 doors resolve to a confident property record and link through; the rest are listed without a link. We match a door to a property record only where the match is certain, never by guessing.

Questions, answered

The DH6 report: your questions

What is the average house price in DH6?

The typical (median) sold price in DH6 is £111,825, from 250 recorded sales between 18 February 2026 and 24 August 2026. Most sales fell between £60,000 and £230,000. That is well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index averages). A median is the middle sale, so a few very expensive homes do not pull it up the way they pull up an average.

What does each type of home cost in DH6?

Typical sold prices by type in DH6: semi-detached homes £113,013 (114 sales), terraced homes £94,499 (88 sales), detached homes £245,000 (41 sales), flats £75,000 (3 sales). Use the figure for your type of home rather than the all-homes median.

Which schools are near DH6?

The Department for Education's register lists 4 open schools within 3 km of the DH6 district centre, the nearest being Thornley Academy. These are nearest by straight-line distance from the district centroid. They are not catchment or admission areas, which councils set individually and do not publish centrally.

How up to date are the DH6 sold prices?

Sold prices come from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, covering sales up to 28 August 2026. The store is rebuilt monthly. New sales can take several weeks to appear in the official register after completion, so the very latest transactions may not show yet.

Is DH6 a deprived area?

On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, the 12 DH6 postcodes we sampled (the ones with the most recent recorded sales, not a random sample) run from decile 2 to decile 7, with a median of decile 3 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. Deprivation is published for small areas, not postcode districts, so a district like DH6 usually spans several. It is area context, never a judgement on an individual home.

Have there been planning applications near DH6?

The last check of the local planning authority register found 10 applications within 500 m of the DH6 district centre; the most recent are listed on this page with their reference, description and status as the authority published them. For an up-to-the-minute search, use the planning tool with your full postcode.

Can I see what an individual address in DH6 sold for?

Yes. This page lists the 24 most recently sold doors of the 246 distinct addresses in the records we hold for DH6, each with its price and date. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so a home that has never been sold does not appear; and we link an address to its own property page only where the match is certain, never by guessing.

Does DH6 cover my exact street?

DH6 is the outward half of the postcode and covers the whole district, so the district-wide figures on this page are medians and ranges, not a valuation of any single property. The address list gives you the door-level picture, and the free checks take a full postcode.

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Crime rate

Street-level reported crime from Police.UK, by category.

Flood risk

Live Environment Agency warnings and long-term risk.

EPC ratings

Energy certificates A–G from the GOV.UK register.

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Data sources

Every DH6 figure is official and dated

Real recorded data from the UK's official registers, never an estimated valuation.

HM Land RegistrySold prices
MHCLGCouncil tax & deprivation
Department for Education · OfstedSchools
Local planning authoritiesPlanning applications
Police.UKStreet-level crime
Environment AgencyFlood risk
postcodes.io · ONSGeography

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · Local planning authority records via PlanIt · Police.UK · Environment Agency · postcodes.io / ONS. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. All figures are real, attributed and carry the sample they rest on: never estimates, never a valuation. All sales · Get Free Valuation · About Your Property Check.