Stanley

What is it like to live in Stanley?

Homes sold for a typical £120,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, up 30.4% on the 12 months before. At 354 of the 541 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 543 postcodes. It has 9 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Chester-le-Street, 7.5 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 Stanley?

Homes in Stanley sold for a typical £120,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 205 sales, up 30.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £235,000 33 sales
• Semi-detached £141,000 57 sales
• Terraced £95,000 113 sales
• Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole DH9 district, Stanley's main postcode district: a typical £125,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Stanley: 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 Stanley?

3 of the 543 postcodes now in use in Stanley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 247 homes sold in Stanley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH9 district, 11%.

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

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 Stanley?

Ofcom reports on 541 of the 543 postcodes in Stanley. At 354 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.

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

Is Stanley at risk of flooding?

2 of the 543 postcodes in Stanley 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 none of the 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 Stanley?

The open schools at the postcodes in Stanley (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.

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

How far is the station from Stanley?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Stanley is Chester-le-Street Rail Station, 7.5 km away in a straight line.

• Chester-le-Street Rail Station Railway station 7.5 kmDrive
• Dunston Rail Station Railway station 9.8 kmDrive
• Metrocentre Rail Station Railway station 10.4 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 Stanley?

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

• Stanley Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01207 285800 450 mWalk
• Tanfield View Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01207 232384 600 mWalk

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

Is Stanley safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 3,154 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Stanley 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 83, drugs 43, possession of weapons 28, robbery 19, theft from the person 10, bicycle theft 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.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Stanley?

Council

County Durham

Parliamentary constituency

North Durham

Police force area

Durham

Region

North East

Country

England

MP

Luke Akehurst (Labour)

All 543 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.