County Durham
DL4 house prices in County Durham
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for County Durham, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£66,000
Range £37,500–£183,200 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 25 Jul 2025 and 14 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in DL4: the typical (median) sold price is £66,000, well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). DL4 is an active market, with about 20 recorded sales a month. By property type, 69% were terraced homes (typically £56,750) and 20% were semi-detached homes (typically £92,500).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Across the 12 most recently sold DL4 postcodes we sampled, area deprivation has a median of decile 1 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 DL4: a steady market, so let the sold prices lead
DL4 is neither busy nor quiet, at about 20 sales a month, enough to learn from, though the year-on-year comparison is too thin to quote, so lean on the recent sold homes.
For sellers, the spread in DL4 is wide, with most sales between £37,500 and £183,200, so the closest sold homes of your type say much more than the middle; roughly 20 sales a month is enough for buyers to compare, so evidence beats optimism.
Sell houseWhen buying here, on price, DL4 is well below the UK average, so find out why prices run lower here before deciding it is good value.
Before you offer in DL4, check planning history nearby (343 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 DL4 OfferCheck sets flood, crime, planning and council tax beside the sold prices.
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At a glance
DL4 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£66,000
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
19.8
Across 250 sales
Freehold sales
99%
Of recorded sales
The data, honestly
House prices in DL4
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in DL4 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £230,000, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £43,875.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 24 | £230,000 | £132,300–£321,460 |
| Semi-detached | 47 | £92,500 | £47,800–£142,000 |
| Terraced | 166 | £56,750 | £35,000–£94,500 |
| Flat / maisonette | 2 | £43,875 | £40,575–£47,175 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 25 Jul 2025 and 14 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in DL4
The quarterly typical price rose 41.9%, from £56,000 in Q3 2025 (57 sales) to £79,475 in Q3 2026 (18 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2025 | £56,000 | 57 |
| Q4 2025 | £61,250 | 62 |
| Q1 2026 | £69,000 | 65 |
| Q2 2026 | £86,000 | 48 |
| Q3 2026 | £79,475 | 18 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 25 Jul 2025 and 14 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of DL4 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most DL4 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £37,500 and £183,200, around a typical £66,000.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 25 Jul 2025 and 14 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in DL4
Terraced homes were 69% of recorded sales (166 of 239). 99% of sales were freehold and 1% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached10%
- Semi-detached20%
- Terraced69%
- Flat / maisonette1%
Tenure
- Freehold99%
- Leasehold1%
See the figures
248 freehold (99%) and 2 leasehold (1%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in DL4. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 25 Jul 2025 and 14 Aug 2026.
Sold twice: what the same home resold for
The strongest price signal there is: the same door, sold twice. Change shown in £, %, and per year. A big % over two decades is smaller than it looks.
58, HOLLY HILL, SHILDON
£55,000 (2025)£115,999 (2026)+110.9% over 0.8 yrs (+163.8%/yr)
34, BOUCH STREET, SHILDON
£39,500 (2025)£91,999 (2026)+132.9% over 0.6 yrs (+292.1%/yr)
1, WALTER STREET, SHILDON
£46,000 (2025)£91,999 (2026)+100% over 0.6 yrs (+196.4%/yr)
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
On the map
Where DL4 sits in County Durham
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in DL4
11, THICKLEY TERRACE, SHILDON
Terraced · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£62,500
10, IVATT WALK, SHILDON
Detached · Freehold · 11 Aug 2026
£180,000
50, HOLLY HILL, SHILDON
Terraced · Freehold · 3 Aug 2026
£46,000
52, HOLLY HILL, SHILDON
Semi-detached · Freehold · 3 Aug 2026
£46,000
32, HOLLY HILL, SHILDON
Semi-detached · Freehold · 3 Aug 2026
£46,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). DL4 includes the Chilton ward.
In plain English
What the County Durham (DL4) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £230,000 against £56,750 for terraced homes: about 4.1 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £37,500 and £183,200, so the median says little about any one home.
- Nearly all of these sales (99%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.
- This is an active district: about 20 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 25 July 2025 and 14 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 DL4
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 DL4
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 DL4
6
open schools within 3 km, nearest St John's Church of England Aided Primary School, Shildon.
All schools
St John's Church of England Aided Primary School, Shildon
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DL4 2EQ
422 m
Good · 2023
Timothy Hackworth Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DL4 1HN
483 m
Good · 2017
Thornhill Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DL4 1ES
757 m
Outstanding · 2023
Prince Bishops Community Primary School
Primary · Academies · DL14 8DY
2.1 km
Not graded
St Andrew's Academy
Primary · Academies · DL14 6RY
2.7 km
Not graded
Oakwood Learning Centre
Special schools · DL2 2UH
2.8 km
Not graded
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 DL4 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 6 open schools within 3 km, 3 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near DL4
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 DL4
343
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 10 September 2026.
Recent applications
CountyDurham/DM/26/02285/FPAUndecided
237 m
Rear double & single storey extensions
Received 2026-08-28
CountyDurham/DM/26/01816/FPAUndecided
477 m
Change of use to managed self storage facility (Use Class B8)
Received 2026-07-14
CountyDurham/DM/26/01329/FPAUndecided
421 m
Retrospective single storey extension to side and rear
Received 2026-05-27
CountyDurham/DM/25/03575/FPAPermitted
106 m
Single storey extension to side, fencing to side, detached garden room to rear garden, removal of front porch and wall and creation of additional off-street parking to front of property.
Received 2025-12-22 · decided 2026-03-25
CountyDurham/DM/25/03527/FPAUndecided
227 m
Construction of a new Playzone MUGA complete with fencing and floodlighting
Received 2025-12-18
CountyDurham/DM/25/02589/FPAPermitted
428 m
Change of use to children's home comprising 3no. 2 bed flats each for 1 child aged up to 18 years, and associated alterations
Received 2025-09-17 · decided 2025-12-18
Applications are matched within 500 m of the DL4 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 20 held; run a live planning search for DL4 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 343 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 10 September 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for DL4
Decile 1 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 12 sampled DL4 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 1 to decile 3, with a median of decile 1 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
DL4 2DB, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 1 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 DL4 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in DL4: 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
Address by address
What individual homes in DL4 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 230 distinct addresses in the records we hold for DL4. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
11, THICKLEY TERRACE, SHILDON
DL4 2LJ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£62,500
2026-08-14
10, IVATT WALK, SHILDON
DL4 2GL · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£180,000
2026-08-11
50, HOLLY HILL, SHILDON
DL4 2DB · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£46,000
2026-08-03
52, HOLLY HILL, SHILDON
DL4 2DB · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£46,000
2026-08-03
32, HOLLY HILL, SHILDON
DL4 2DB · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£46,000
2026-08-03
10, LINDEN CLOSE, SHILDON
DL4 2DG · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£79,950
2026-07-31
1, WINDSOR GARDENS, SHILDON
DL4 1NA · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£129,000
2026-07-30
30, ROSEDALE CRESCENT, SHILDON
DL4 2AW · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£79,000
2026-07-27
7, DEAN GARDENS, SHILDON
DL4 1EX · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£92,000
2026-07-24
13, ALBION AVENUE, SHILDON
DL4 1ER · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£27,000
2026-07-22
41, QUEENSWAY, SHILDON
DL4 2BE · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£90,000
2026-07-20
8, MAPLE AVENUE, SHILDON
DL4 2AG · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£48,000
2026-07-17
14, SOHO STREET, SHILDON
DL4 1PG · Terraced · Freehold · 2 recorded sales
£86,489
2026-07-16
6, DENT STREET, SHILDON
DL4 2DJ · Terraced · Freehold · 4 recorded sales
£91,999
2026-07-16
99, MAIN STREET, SHILDON
DL4 1AW · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£61,000
2026-07-08
2, STERLING WAY, SHILDON
DL4 2GT · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£140,000
2026-07-07
11, BOUCH STREET, SHILDON
DL4 2JW · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£20,000
2026-07-03
51, SUNNYDALE, SHILDON
DL4 2ES · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£80,639
2026-07-02
4, RUSKIN AVENUE, SHILDON
DL4 1HS · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£103,000
2026-06-30
7, HOLLY HILL, SHILDON
DL4 2DA · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£55,000
2026-06-30
25, STERLING WAY, SHILDON
DL4 2GT · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£120,000
2026-06-30
34, ADAMSON STREET, SHILDON
DL4 2JN · Terraced · Freehold · 2 recorded sales
£43,500
2026-06-29
2, CLARENDON COURT, SHILDON
DL4 1RB · Detached · Freehold · 2 recorded sales
£185,000
2026-06-29
31, STERLING WAY, SHILDON
DL4 2GT · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£154,000
2026-06-26
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.
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Nearby
Postcode districts near DL4
The closest districts to DL4 by straight-line distance between district centres.
- House prices in DL14 (Bishop Auckland) 2.4 miles
- House prices in DL5 (Newton Aycliffe) 2.8 miles
- House prices in DL16 (Spennymoor) 5 miles
- House prices in DL17 (Ferryhill) 5.4 miles
- House prices in DL15 (Crook) 6.6 miles
- House prices in DL2 (Darlington) 7.3 miles
- House prices in DL3 (Darlington) 7.4 miles
- House prices in DL1 (Darlington) 8.1 miles
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Data sources
Every DL4 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.