Newton Aycliffe
Newton Aycliffe is covered by postcode districts DL5 and DL17. It is mostly in the County Durham council area: 679 of its 680 postcodes. The other is in Darlington.
Every postcode in Newton Aycliffe, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 1
- At medium risk at worst: 3
- At low risk at worst: 24
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 652
Of the 680 postcodes in Newton Aycliffe that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 24 are at low risk at worst and 652 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 54.6199, longitude -1.5735. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Newton Aycliffe?
Homes sold for a typical £153,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 478 of the 663 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 17 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 28 of its 680 postcodes. It has 9 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Newton Aycliffe, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
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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 Newton Aycliffe?
Homes in Newton Aycliffe sold for a typical £153,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 224 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £147,000 from 341 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £225,000 77 sales
- Semi-detached £150,000 68 sales
- Terraced £112,000 73 sales
- Flat or maisonette £56,500 6 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole DL5 district, Newton Aycliffe's main postcode district: a typical £165,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Newton Aycliffe: 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 Newton Aycliffe?
15 of the 680 postcodes now in use in Newton Aycliffe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 6 of the 341 homes sold in Newton Aycliffe were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DL5 district, 2%.
The newest postcodes
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
| Period | In Newton Aycliffe | Across the DL5 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 224 (0%) | 0 of 264 (0%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 6 of 341 (2%) | 7 of 410 (2%) |
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 Newton Aycliffe?
Ofcom reports on 663 of the 680 postcodes in Newton Aycliffe. At 478 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Newton Aycliffe at risk of flooding?
28 of the 680 postcodes in Newton Aycliffe have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 17 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
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 Newton Aycliffe?
The open schools at the postcodes in Newton Aycliffe (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- Sugar Hill Primary School350 m 448 pupils, 468 places
- Woodham Burn Community Primary School and Nursery500 m 222 pupils, 330 places
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Newton Aycliffe600 m 162 pupils, 210 places
- Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery School700 m 285 pupils, 385 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School900 m 150 pupils, 175 places
- Vane Road Primary School950 m 427 pupils, 440 places
- St Francis Horndale CofE Primary School1.5 km 147 pupils, 236 places
- Byerley Park Primary School1.6 km 207 pupils, 210 places
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Newton Aycliffe?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Newton Aycliffe is Newton Aycliffe Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.
- Newton Aycliffe Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmCycle
- Heighington Rail Station Railway station 2.6 kmCycle
- Shildon Rail Station Railway station 4.1 kmCycle
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 Newton Aycliffe?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Newton Aycliffe. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Pease Way Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01325 528000 250 mWalk
- Bewick Crescent Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2024 · Phone 01325 316637 300 mWalk
- Jubilee Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01325 311300 1.2 kmWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Newton Aycliffe safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 3,423 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Newton Aycliffe 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
- 224 September 2025
- 243 October 2025
- 216 November 2025
- 206 December 2025
- 240 January 2026
- 226 February 2026
- 330 March 2026
- 279 April 2026
- 396 May 2026
- 384 June 2026
- 368 July 2026
- 311 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 87, drugs 56, possession of weapons 24, robbery 18, theft from the person 10, bicycle theft 9.
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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Newton Aycliffe?
- Councils
- County Durham (679) and Darlington (1)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor (679) and Darlington (1)
- Police force area
- Durham
- Region
- North East
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Newton Aycliffe
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Newton Aycliffe is in County Durham; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell County Durham about council tax Council tax, on durham.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Newton Aycliffe
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Newton Aycliffe postcodes
680 postcodes in use in Newton Aycliffe, by district:
Those districts are all in the DL postcode area.
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Places near Newton Aycliffe
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Newton Aycliffe's £153,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Newton Aycliffe
- What is the postcode for Newton Aycliffe?
- Postcode districts DL5 and DL17, with 680 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Newton Aycliffe?
- A typical £153,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 224 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Newton Aycliffe?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Sugar Hill Primary School, Woodham Burn Community Primary School and Nursery and St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Newton Aycliffe; secondary schools at its postcodes include Woodham Academy, Greenfield Academy and UTC South Durham. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Newton Aycliffe have a railway station?
- Yes: Newton Aycliffe station, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Newton Aycliffe?
- Ofcom reports on 663 of the 680 postcodes in Newton Aycliffe. At 478 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Newton Aycliffe at risk of flooding?
- 28 of the 680 postcodes in Newton Aycliffe have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 17 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Newton Aycliffe?
- 15 of the 680 postcodes now in use in Newton Aycliffe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 6 of the 341 homes sold in Newton Aycliffe were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DL5 district, 2%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
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.
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