Bournmoor

Bournmoor is covered by postcode districts DH3 and DH4. It is in the County Durham council area, England.

Typical price £205,000 Homes sold in Bournmoor, last 12 months. ▼ 28.1% on the year before Gigabit broadband 51 of 54 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Bournmoor, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Bournmoor, by flood risk Of the 55 postcodes in Bournmoor that ONS places, 55 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bournmoor. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A183A1052 DH3 4DS: not on the flood risk listDH3 4DT: not on the flood risk listDH3 4DU: not on the flood risk listDH3 4DW: not on the flood risk listDH3 4DX: not on the flood risk listDH3 4DY: not on the flood risk listDH3 4DZ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4EA: not on the flood risk listDH4 6BH: not on the flood risk listDH4 6BJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6BL: not on the flood risk listDH4 6BN: not on the flood risk listDH4 6BP: not on the flood risk listDH4 6BQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6BW: not on the flood risk listDH4 6BZ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6DA: not on the flood risk listDH4 6DB: not on the flood risk listDH4 6DD: not on the flood risk listDH4 6DH: not on the flood risk listDH4 6DJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6DW: not on the flood risk listDH4 6DX: not on the flood risk listDH4 6DY: not on the flood risk listDH4 6DZ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EA: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EB: not on the flood risk listDH4 6ED: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EE: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EF: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EG: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EH: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EL: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EN: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EP: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6ER: not on the flood risk listDH4 6ES: not on the flood risk listDH4 6ET: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EU: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EW: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EX: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EY: not on the flood risk listDH4 6EZ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6HA: not on the flood risk listDH4 6HB: not on the flood risk listDH4 6HE: not on the flood risk listDH4 6HF: not on the flood risk listDH4 6HG: not on the flood risk listDH4 6HH: not on the flood risk listDH4 6HJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6HQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 6UA: not on the flood risk listDH4 6UB: not on the flood risk list Bournmoor Map of every postcode in Bournmoor, by flood risk Of the 55 postcodes in Bournmoor that ONS places, 55 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bournmoor. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A183 Bournmoor
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 55

Of the 55 postcodes in Bournmoor that ONS places, 55 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.8553, longitude -1.5180. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

What is it like to live in Bournmoor?

Homes sold for a typical £205,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 28.1% on the 12 months before. At 51 of the 54 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 55 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Grangewood Surgery, 1.7 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Chester-le-Street, 3.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Bournmoor?

Homes in Bournmoor sold for a typical £205,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 17 sales, down 28.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£205,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£285,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 28.1% on the 12 months before
  • Detached 4 sales, too few to price
  • Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
  • Terraced £115,000 7 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Across the whole DH4 district, Bournmoor's main postcode district: a typical £155,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bournmoor: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Bournmoor?

8 of the 55 postcodes now in use in Bournmoor came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 11 of the 31 homes sold in Bournmoor were newly built (35%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH4 district, 23%.

The newest postcodes

DH3 4DYsince December 2023DH3 4DXsince June 2023DH3 4EAsince June 2023DH3 4DZsince March 2023DH3 4DWsince July 2022DH3 4DTsince March 2021

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn BournmoorAcross the DH4 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 17 (0%) 28 of 389 (7%)
The 12 months to August 2025 11 of 31 (35%) 136 of 592 (23%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Bournmoor?

Ofcom reports on 54 of the 55 postcodes in Bournmoor. At 51 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit51 of 54
Postcodes where every home can get superfast54 of 54

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Bournmoor at risk of flooding?

None of the 55 postcodes in Bournmoor is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Bournmoor?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Bournmoor. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Bournmoor?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bournmoor is Chester-le-Street Rail Station, 3.8 km away in a straight line.

  • Chester-le-Street Rail Station Railway station 3.8 kmCycle
  • Durham Rail Station Railway station 9.4 kmDrive
  • Sunderland Rail Station Railway station 10.3 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Bournmoor?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Bournmoor. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Bournmoor safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 504 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bournmoor over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 41 September 2025
  2. 43 October 2025
  3. 33 November 2025
  4. 41 December 2025
  5. 33 January 2026
  6. 25 February 2026
  7. 32 March 2026
  8. 49 April 2026
  9. 73 May 2026
  10. 38 June 2026
  11. 47 July 2026
  12. 49 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences170 reports
Anti-social behaviour101 reports
Criminal damage and arson76 reports
Burglary46 reports
Public order30 reports
Vehicle crime27 reports
Other theft21 reports
Other crime18 reports

Also: drugs 6, shoplifting 5, theft from the person 2, robbery 1, possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Bournmoor?

Council
County Durham
Parliamentary constituency
North Durham
Police force area
Durham
Region
North East
Country
England
MP
Luke Akehurst (Labour)

All 55 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

Moving to Bournmoor

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Bournmoor postcodes

55 postcodes in use in Bournmoor, by district:

DH4 postcode district,47 postcodesDH3 postcode district,8 postcodes

Those districts are all in the DH postcode area.

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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.

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Places near Bournmoor

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Bournmoor's £205,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Fence Houses1.6 km, £142,000Shiney Row and Penshaw2.2 km, £160,000Great Lumley2.5 km, £190,000Newbottle2.6 km, £151,250Houghton-le-Spring3.2 km, £152,475Chester-le-Street4.0 km, £172,000West Rainton4.7 km, £145,000Washington5.3 km, £155,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Bournmoor

What is it like to live in Bournmoor?
Homes sold for a typical £205,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 28.1% on the 12 months before. At 51 of the 54 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 55 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Grangewood Surgery, 1.7 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Chester-le-Street, 3.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Bournmoor?
Bournmoor is covered by postcode districts DH3 and DH4, across 55 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Bournmoor in?
Bournmoor is in the County Durham council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Bournmoor?
Bournmoor is in the North Durham parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Luke Akehurst (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Bournmoor?
Homes in Bournmoor sold for a typical £205,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 17 sales, down 28.1% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Bournmoor?
In Bournmoor, primary schools at its postcodes include Bournmoor Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Poplars, 2.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Bournmoor have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bournmoor is Chester-le-Street, 3.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Bournmoor?
Ofcom reports on 54 of the 55 postcodes in Bournmoor. At 51 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Bournmoor at risk of flooding?
None of the 55 postcodes in Bournmoor is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Bournmoor?
8 of the 55 postcodes now in use in Bournmoor came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 11 of the 31 homes sold in Bournmoor were newly built (35%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH4 district, 23%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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