Great Lumley

Great Lumley is covered by postcode district DH3. It is in the County Durham council area, England.

Typical price £185,100 Homes sold in Great Lumley, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 76 of 86 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 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Great Lumley, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Great Lumley, by flood risk Of the 86 postcodes in Great Lumley that ONS places, 86 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Great Lumley. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. DH3 4DP: not on the flood risk listDH3 4DR: not on the flood risk listDH3 4ER: not on the flood risk listDH3 4GW: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HH: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HL: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HN: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HP: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HR: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HS: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HT: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HU: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HW: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HX: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HY: not on the flood risk listDH3 4HZ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JB: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JD: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JE: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JF: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JG: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JH: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JJ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JL: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JN: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JP: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JR: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JS: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JT: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JU: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JW: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JX: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JY: not on the flood risk listDH3 4JZ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LA: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LB: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LD: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LE: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LF: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LG: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LH: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LJ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LL: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LN: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LP: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LQ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LR: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LS: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LT: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LU: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LW: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LX: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LY: not on the flood risk listDH3 4LZ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4NA: not on the flood risk listDH3 4NB: not on the flood risk listDH3 4ND: not on the flood risk listDH3 4NE: not on the flood risk listDH3 4NF: not on the flood risk listDH3 4NG: not on the flood risk listDH3 4NH: not on the flood risk listDH3 4NJ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4NL: not on the flood risk listDH3 4NQ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QB: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QH: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QJ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QL: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QN: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QP: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QQ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QR: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QS: not on the flood risk listDH3 4QW: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SH: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SJ: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SL: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SN: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SP: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SR: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SS: not on the flood risk listDH3 4ST: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SU: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SW: not on the flood risk listDH3 4SX: not on the flood risk list Great Lumley Map of every postcode in Great Lumley, by flood risk Of the 86 postcodes in Great Lumley that ONS places, 86 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Great Lumley. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Great Lumley
  • 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: 86

Of the 86 postcodes in Great Lumley that ONS places, 86 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 54.8378, longitude -1.5428. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

DH3 4ES

What is it like to live in Great Lumley?

Homes sold for a typical £185,100 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 76 of the 86 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 86 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 at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Chester-le-Street, 2.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Great Lumley?

Homes in Great Lumley sold for a typical £185,100 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 39 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £196,000 from 46 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£185,100 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£196,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £352,500 6 sales
  • Semi-detached £175,000 25 sales
  • Terraced £175,000 7 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole DH3 district, Great Lumley's main postcode district: a typical £182,750.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Great Lumley: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Great Lumley?

None of the 86 postcodes now in use in Great Lumley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 46 homes sold in Great Lumley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH3 district, 15%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Great LumleyAcross the DH3 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 39 (0%) 9 of 332 (3%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 46 (0%) 71 of 477 (15%)

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Great Lumley?

Ofcom reports on 86 of the 86 postcodes in Great Lumley. At 76 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit76 of 86
Postcodes where every home can get superfast83 of 86

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Great Lumley at risk of flooding?

None of the 86 postcodes in Great Lumley 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Great Lumley?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Great Lumley. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Great Lumley?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Great Lumley is Chester-le-Street Rail Station, 2.9 km away in a straight line.

  • Chester-le-Street Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
  • Durham Rail Station Railway station 7.0 kmDrive
  • Seaham Rail Station Railway station 12.6 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Great Lumley?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Great Lumley. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Great Lumley safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 206 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Great Lumley 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. 10 September 2025
  2. 15 October 2025
  3. 18 November 2025
  4. 19 December 2025
  5. 18 January 2026
  6. 14 February 2026
  7. 20 March 2026
  8. 17 April 2026
  9. 18 May 2026
  10. 19 June 2026
  11. 29 July 2026
  12. 9 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences85 reports
Anti-social behaviour33 reports
Criminal damage and arson28 reports
Burglary14 reports
Other theft12 reports
Vehicle crime11 reports
Shoplifting10 reports
Public order6 reports

Also: other crime 5, 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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Great Lumley?

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

All 86 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

Moving to Great Lumley

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Great Lumley postcodes

86 postcodes in use in Great Lumley, by district:

DH3 postcode district,86 postcodes

That district is in the DH postcode area.

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Places near Great Lumley

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Great Lumley's £185,100. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Bournmoor2.5 km, £220,000Fence Houses2.7 km, £144,975Chester-le-Street3.2 km, £175,000West Rainton3.7 km, £145,000Houghton-le-Spring4.5 km, £155,000Newbottle4.7 km, £140,000Shiney Row and Penshaw4.7 km, £165,000Sacriston5.7 km, £129,500 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Great Lumley

What is the postcode for Great Lumley?
Postcode district DH3, with 86 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Great Lumley in?
County Durham. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Great Lumley?
Luke Akehurst (Labour), for North Durham. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Great Lumley?
A typical £185,100 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 39 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Great Lumley?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Lumley Junior School and Lumley Infant and Nursery School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Park View School, 2.6 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Great Lumley have a railway station?
The nearest is Chester-le-Street station, 2.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Great Lumley?
Ofcom reports on 86 of the 86 postcodes in Great Lumley. At 76 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Great Lumley at risk of flooding?
None of the 86 postcodes in Great Lumley 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. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Great Lumley?
None of the 86 postcodes now in use in Great Lumley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 46 homes sold in Great Lumley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH3 district, 15%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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