Easington

Easington is covered by postcode district SR8. It is in the County Durham council area, England.

ONS publishes this built-up area as Easington (County Durham).

Typical price £90,000 Homes sold in Easington, last 12 months. ▲ 5.9% on the year before Gigabit broadband 177 of 210 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 4 2 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 all-through school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Easington, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Easington, by flood risk Of the 210 postcodes in Easington that ONS places, 210 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Easington. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A1086A19 SR8 3AA: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AB: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AD: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AE: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AF: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AG: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AH: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AJ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AL: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AP: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AQ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AR: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AS: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AT: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AU: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AW: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AX: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AY: not on the flood risk listSR8 3AZ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BA: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BB: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BD: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BG: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BH: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BL: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BN: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BP: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BQ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3BS: 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risk listSR8 3RB: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RF: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RG: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RH: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RJ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RL: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RP: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RQ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RR: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RS: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RT: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RU: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RW: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RX: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RY: not on the flood risk listSR8 3RZ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3SA: not on the flood risk listSR8 3SB: not on the flood risk listSR8 3SD: not on the flood risk listSR8 3SJ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3SL: not on the flood risk listSR8 3SN: not on the flood risk listSR8 3SP: not on the flood risk listSR8 3SS: not on the flood risk listSR8 3SW: not on the flood risk listSR8 3TF: not on the flood risk listSR8 3TP: not on the flood risk listSR8 3TQ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3TW: not on the flood risk listSR8 3UA: not on the flood risk listSR8 3UB: not on the flood risk listSR8 3UQ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3US: not on the flood risk listSR8 3UY: not on the flood risk listSR8 3WZ: not on the flood risk listSR8 3XG: not on the flood risk listSR8 3XZ: not on the flood risk list Easington Map of every postcode in Easington, by flood risk Of the 210 postcodes in Easington that ONS places, 210 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Easington. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Easington
  • 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: 210

Of the 210 postcodes in Easington that ONS places, 210 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. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.7864, longitude -1.3397. 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 Easington?

Homes sold for a typical £90,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 5.9% on the 12 months before. At 177 of the 210 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 210 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 2 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Horden Group Practice, 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Horden, 3.3 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 Easington?

Homes in Easington sold for a typical £90,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 93 sales, up 5.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£90,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£85,000
12 months to August 2026
£90,000

▲ up 5.9% on the 12 months before

Detached£201,000 16 sales
Semi-detached£110,000 28 sales
Terraced£70,000 49 sales

Across the whole SR8 district, Easington's main postcode district: a typical £90,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Easington: 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 Easington?

4 of the 210 postcodes now in use in Easington came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 132 homes sold in Easington were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SR8 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

SR8 3FHsince November 2022SR8 3FJsince September 2022SR8 3FGsince April 2022SR8 3FAsince May 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 EasingtonAcross the SR8 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 93 (0%) 0 of 355 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 132 (0%) 0 of 504 (0%)

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 Easington?

Ofcom reports on 210 of the 210 postcodes in Easington. At 177 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit177 of 210
Postcodes where every home can get superfast205 of 210

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 Easington at risk of flooding?

None of the 210 postcodes in Easington 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 Easington?

The open schools at the postcodes in Easington. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

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 Easington?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Easington is Horden, 3.3 km away in a straight line.

  • Horden Railway station 3.3 kmCycle
  • Seaham Rail Station Railway station 5.9 kmDrive
  • Sunderland Rail Station Railway station 13.5 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 Easington?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Easington. 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 Easington safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,265 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Easington 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. 80 September 2025
  2. 81 October 2025
  3. 104 November 2025
  4. 93 December 2025
  5. 79 January 2026
  6. 91 February 2026
  7. 95 March 2026
  8. 107 April 2026
  9. 139 May 2026
  10. 119 June 2026
  11. 168 July 2026
  12. 109 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences456 reports
Shoplifting297 reports
Criminal damage and arson151 reports
Anti-social behaviour113 reports
Other theft67 reports
Public order51 reports
Other crime35 reports
Burglary34 reports

Also: vehicle crime 19, drugs 16, possession of weapons 14, robbery 10, theft from the person 2.

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 Easington?

Council
County Durham
Parliamentary constituency
Easington
Police force area
Durham
Region
North East
Country
England
MP
Grahame Morris (Labour)

All 210 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 Easington

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Easington postcodes

210 postcodes in use in Easington, by district:

SR8 postcode district,210 postcodes

That district is in the SR 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 Easington

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Easington's £90,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Horden2.9 km, £55,750Peterlee3.1 km, £104,999Shotton Colliery4.3 km, £120,000South Hetton4.6 km, £96,470Murton4.8 km, £100,000Blackhall Colliery5.6 km, £87,000Seaham5.6 km, £138,000Easington Lane6.7 km, £100,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Easington

What is it like to live in Easington?
Homes sold for a typical £90,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 5.9% on the 12 months before. At 177 of the 210 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 210 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 2 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Horden Group Practice, 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Horden, 3.3 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 Easington?
Easington is covered by postcode district SR8, across 210 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Easington in?
Easington is in the County Durham council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Easington?
Easington is in the Easington parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Grahame Morris (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Easington?
Homes in Easington sold for a typical £90,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 93 sales, up 5.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Easington?
In Easington, primary schools at its postcodes include Easington Colliery Primary School, Hope Wood Academy and Easington CofE Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Hope Wood Academy and Easington Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Easington have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Easington is Horden, 3.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Easington?
Ofcom reports on 210 of the 210 postcodes in Easington. At 177 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Easington at risk of flooding?
None of the 210 postcodes in Easington 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 Easington?
4 of the 210 postcodes now in use in Easington came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 132 homes sold in Easington were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SR8 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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