South Hetton

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

Typical price £95,000 Homes sold in South Hetton, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 61 of 69 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 South Hetton, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in South Hetton, by flood risk Of the 69 postcodes in South Hetton that ONS places, 69 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: South Hetton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. DH6 2GA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RG: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RL: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RN: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RP: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RQ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RS: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RT: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RW: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RX: not on the flood risk listDH6 2RZ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SG: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SJ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SL: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SN: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SP: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SQ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SS: not on the flood risk listDH6 2ST: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SW: not on the flood risk listDH6 2SX: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TG: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TJ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TL: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TN: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TP: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TQ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TS: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TT: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TW: not on the flood risk listDH6 2TX: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UA: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UB: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UD: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UE: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UF: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UG: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UJ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UL: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UN: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UP: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UQ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UR: not on the flood risk listDH6 2US: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UU: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UW: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UX: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UY: not on the flood risk listDH6 2UZ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XG: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XH: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XJ: not on the flood risk listDH6 2XQ: not on the flood risk list South Hetton Map of every postcode in South Hetton, by flood risk Of the 69 postcodes in South Hetton that ONS places, 69 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: South Hetton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. South Hetton
  • 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: 69

Of the 69 postcodes in South Hetton that ONS places, 69 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 54.8000, longitude -1.4079. 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 South Hetton?

Homes sold for a typical £95,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 61 of the 69 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 69 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. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Seaham, 5.9 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 South Hetton?

Homes in South Hetton sold for a typical £95,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 37 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £105,000 from 32 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£95,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£105,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £172,500 9 sales
  • Semi-detached £85,000 11 sales
  • Terraced £94,999 17 sales

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

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

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in South Hetton: 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 South Hetton?

None of the 69 postcodes now in use in South Hetton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 32 homes sold in South Hetton were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH6 district, 12%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn South HettonAcross the DH6 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 37 (0%) 11 of 429 (3%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 32 (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 South Hetton?

Ofcom reports on 69 of the 69 postcodes in South Hetton. At 61 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit61 of 69
Postcodes where every home can get superfast69 of 69

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 South Hetton at risk of flooding?

None of the 69 postcodes in South Hetton 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 South Hetton?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in South Hetton. 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 South Hetton?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in South Hetton is Seaham Rail Station, 5.9 km away in a straight line.

  • Seaham Rail Station Railway station 5.9 kmDrive
  • Horden Railway station 7.6 kmDrive
  • Durham Rail Station Railway station 11.4 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 South Hetton?

The GP practices at the postcodes in South Hetton. 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 South Hetton safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 339 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in South Hetton 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. 24 September 2025
  2. 16 October 2025
  3. 19 November 2025
  4. 28 December 2025
  5. 19 January 2026
  6. 25 February 2026
  7. 32 March 2026
  8. 31 April 2026
  9. 40 May 2026
  10. 29 June 2026
  11. 34 July 2026
  12. 42 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences123 reports
Anti-social behaviour72 reports
Criminal damage and arson49 reports
Other theft22 reports
Other crime19 reports
Public order14 reports
Burglary14 reports
Vehicle crime14 reports

Also: drugs 5, shoplifting 3, theft from the person 2, possession of weapons 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 South Hetton?

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

All 69 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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South Hetton postcodes

69 postcodes in use in South Hetton, by district:

DH6 postcode district,69 postcodes

That district is in the DH postcode area.

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Places near South Hetton

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside South Hetton's £95,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Easington Lane2.1 km, £107,500Murton2.3 km, £100,000Hetton-le-Hole3.8 km, £145,160Shotton Colliery4.4 km, £120,000Easington4.6 km, £92,250Seaham5.5 km, £137,000Thornley5.8 km, £135,000Peterlee6.2 km, £105,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about South Hetton

What is the postcode for South Hetton?
Postcode district DH6, with 69 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is South Hetton in?
County Durham. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for South Hetton?
Grahame Morris (Labour), for Easington. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in South Hetton?
A typical £95,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 37 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in South Hetton?
Primary schools at its postcodes include South Hetton Primary; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Easington Academy, 3.8 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does South Hetton have a railway station?
The nearest is Seaham station, 5.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in South Hetton?
Ofcom reports on 69 of the 69 postcodes in South Hetton. At 61 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is South Hetton at risk of flooding?
None of the 69 postcodes in South Hetton 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 South Hetton?
None of the 69 postcodes now in use in South Hetton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 32 homes sold in South Hetton 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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