Shotton Colliery

Shotton Colliery is covered by postcode district DH6. It is in the County Durham council area, England.

Typical price £120,000 Homes sold in Shotton Colliery, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 87 of 113 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 Shotton Colliery, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Shotton Colliery, by flood risk Of the 115 postcodes in Shotton Colliery that ONS places, 115 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Shotton Colliery. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. DH6 2AT: not on the flood risk listDH6 2FA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2FD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HG: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HJ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HL: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HN: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HP: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HQ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HS: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HT: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HW: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HX: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HY: not on the flood risk listDH6 2HZ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JG: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JL: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JN: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JP: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JQ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JS: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JW: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JX: not on the flood risk listDH6 2JZ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LG: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LJ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LN: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LP: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LQ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LS: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LT: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LW: not on the flood risk listDH6 2LY: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2ND: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NL: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NP: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NT: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2NX: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PJ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PL: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PN: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PP: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PQ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PS: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PT: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PX: not on the flood risk listDH6 2PY: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QJ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QN: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QT: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QW: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QX: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QY: not on the flood risk listDH6 2QZ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XT: not on the flood risk listDH6 2YA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2YB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2YD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2YF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2YG: not on the flood risk listDH6 2YH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2YJ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2YL: not on the flood risk listDH6 2YQ: not on the flood risk list Shotton Colliery Map of every postcode in Shotton Colliery, by flood risk Of the 115 postcodes in Shotton Colliery that ONS places, 115 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Shotton Colliery. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Shotton Colliery
  • 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: 115

Of the 115 postcodes in Shotton Colliery that ONS places, 115 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 54.7615, longitude -1.3901. 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.

What is it like to live in Shotton Colliery?

Homes sold for a typical £120,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 87 of the 113 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 115 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. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Horden, 5.3 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 Shotton Colliery?

Homes in Shotton Colliery sold for a typical £120,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 49 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £117,498 from 72 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£120,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£117,498 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £260,000 11 sales
  • Semi-detached £115,250 20 sales
  • Terraced £107,075 18 sales

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

Across the whole DH6 district, Shotton Colliery's main postcode district: a typical £130,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Shotton Colliery: 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 Shotton Colliery?

None of the 115 postcodes now in use in Shotton Colliery came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 72 homes sold in Shotton Colliery were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH6 district, 12%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Shotton CollieryAcross the DH6 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 49 (0%) 11 of 429 (3%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 72 (0%) 74 of 626 (12%)

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 Shotton Colliery?

Ofcom reports on 113 of the 115 postcodes in Shotton Colliery. At 87 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit87 of 113
Postcodes where every home can get superfast109 of 113
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 113

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.

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Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Shotton Colliery at risk of flooding?

None of the 115 postcodes in Shotton Colliery 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 Shotton Colliery?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Shotton Colliery. 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 Shotton Colliery?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Shotton Colliery is Horden, 5.3 km away in a straight line.

  • Horden Railway station 5.3 kmDrive
  • Seaham Rail Station Railway station 9.1 kmDrive
  • Durham Rail Station Railway station 12.5 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Shotton Colliery?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Shotton Colliery. 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 Shotton Colliery safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 671 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Shotton Colliery 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. 42 September 2025
  2. 59 October 2025
  3. 79 November 2025
  4. 52 December 2025
  5. 37 January 2026
  6. 48 February 2026
  7. 54 March 2026
  8. 32 April 2026
  9. 60 May 2026
  10. 61 June 2026
  11. 63 July 2026
  12. 84 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences186 reports
Anti-social behaviour139 reports
Criminal damage and arson132 reports
Shoplifting85 reports
Other theft36 reports
Public order32 reports
Burglary19 reports
Vehicle crime16 reports

Also: other crime 12, drugs 7, possession of weapons 3, theft from the person 2, robbery 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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Shotton Colliery?

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

All 115 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.

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Shotton Colliery postcodes

115 postcodes in use in Shotton Colliery, by district:

DH6 postcode district,115 postcodes

That district is in the DH postcode area.

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Places near Shotton Colliery

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Shotton Colliery's £120,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Wheatley Hill2.7 km, £125,000Peterlee3.0 km, £105,000Thornley3.2 km, £135,000Wingate3.7 km, £135,000Easington4.3 km, £92,250South Hetton4.4 km, £95,000Horden4.7 km, £57,000Trimdon Colliery4.9 km, £96,500 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Shotton Colliery

What is the postcode for Shotton Colliery?
Postcode district DH6, with 115 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Shotton Colliery in?
County Durham. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Shotton Colliery?
Grahame Morris (Labour), for Easington. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Shotton Colliery?
A typical £120,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 49 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Shotton Colliery?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Shotton Primary School and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Shotton; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Academy at Shotton Hall, 2.7 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Shotton Colliery have a railway station?
The nearest is Horden station, 5.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Shotton Colliery?
Ofcom reports on 113 of the 115 postcodes in Shotton Colliery. At 87 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
Is Shotton Colliery at risk of flooding?
None of the 115 postcodes in Shotton Colliery 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 Shotton Colliery?
None of the 115 postcodes now in use in Shotton Colliery came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 72 homes sold in Shotton Colliery were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH6 district, 12%. 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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