Tanfield Lea

Tanfield Lea is covered by postcode district DH9. It is in the County Durham council area, England.

Typical price £187,475 Homes sold in Tanfield Lea, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 38 of 57 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at medium risk 2 of 62 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 1 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Tanfield Lea, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Tanfield Lea, by flood risk Of the 62 postcodes in Tanfield Lea that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 60 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Tanfield Lea. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. DH9 8AS: not on the flood risk listDH9 8AT: not on the flood risk listDH9 8AU: not on the flood risk listDH9 8AX: not on the flood risk listDH9 8AY: not on the flood risk listDH9 8AZ: not on the flood risk listDH9 8BA: not on the flood risk listDH9 8BB: not on the flood risk listDH9 8BD: not on the flood risk listDH9 8BE: not on the flood risk listDH9 8BG: not on the flood risk listDH9 9AT: not on the flood risk listDH9 9BN: not on the flood risk listDH9 9BS: not on the flood risk listDH9 9BT: not on the flood risk listDH9 9BU: not on the flood risk listDH9 9BW: not on the flood risk listDH9 9BY: not on the flood risk listDH9 9BZ: not on the flood risk listDH9 9DB: not on the flood risk listDH9 9LJ: not on the flood risk listDH9 9LS: not on the flood risk listDH9 9LT: not on the flood risk listDH9 9LU: not on the flood risk listDH9 9LY: not on the flood risk listDH9 9LZ: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NA: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NE: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NF: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NG: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NH: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NJ: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NL: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NN: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NP: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NQ: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NR: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NS: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NT: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NU: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NW: not on the flood risk listDH9 9NX: not on the flood risk listDH9 9PA: not on the flood risk listDH9 9PB: not on the flood risk listDH9 9PD: not on the flood risk listDH9 9PE: not on the flood risk listDH9 9PF: not on the flood risk listDH9 9PG: not on the flood risk listDH9 9PH: not on the flood risk listDH9 9PQ: not on the flood risk listDH9 9UH: not on the flood risk listDH9 9UJ: not on the flood risk listDH9 9UL: not on the flood risk listDH9 9UN: not on the flood risk listDH9 9UR: not on the flood risk listDH9 9UT: not on the flood risk listDH9 9UW: not on the flood risk listDH9 9XR: not on the flood risk listDH9 9XS: not on the flood risk listDH9 9XU: not on the flood risk listDH9 9QE: low flood risk at worstDH9 9UU: medium flood risk at worst Tanfield Lea Map of every postcode in Tanfield Lea, by flood risk Of the 62 postcodes in Tanfield Lea that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 60 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Tanfield Lea. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Tanfield Lea
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 60

Of the 62 postcodes in Tanfield Lea that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 60 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 54.8808, longitude -1.7103. 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 medium risk at worst

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

DH9 9UU1 at medium risk

What is it like to live in Tanfield Lea?

Homes sold for a typical £187,475 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 38 of the 57 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1 home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 62 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Tanfield View Medical Group, 1.3 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Dunston, 8.9 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 Tanfield Lea?

Homes in Tanfield Lea sold for a typical £187,475 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 42 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £204,000 from 87 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£187,475 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£204,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £330,998 18 sales
  • Semi-detached £162,500 10 sales
  • Terraced £82,500 14 sales

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

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

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Tanfield Lea: 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 Tanfield Lea?

9 of the 62 postcodes now in use in Tanfield Lea came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 56 of the 87 homes sold in Tanfield Lea were newly built (64%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH9 district, 11%.

The newest postcodes

DH9 9BWsince July 2026DH9 9BUsince May 2026DH9 9BTsince February 2026DH9 9BZsince November 2025DH9 9BSsince October 2025DH9 9BYsince May 2025

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

PeriodIn Tanfield LeaAcross the DH9 district
The 12 months to September 2026 16 of 42 (38%) 16 of 406 (4%)
The 12 months to September 2025 56 of 87 (64%) 60 of 565 (11%)

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 Tanfield Lea?

Ofcom reports on 57 of the 62 postcodes in Tanfield Lea. At 38 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit38 of 57
Postcodes where every home can get superfast55 of 57

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 Tanfield Lea at risk of flooding?

2 of the 62 postcodes in Tanfield Lea 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 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2 of 62 postcodes Medium: 1Low: 1

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 Tanfield Lea?

The open schools at the postcodes in Tanfield Lea. 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

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 Tanfield Lea?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Tanfield Lea is Dunston Rail Station, 8.9 km away in a straight line.

  • Dunston Rail Station Railway station 8.9 kmDrive
  • Chester-le-Street Rail Station Railway station 9.0 kmDrive
  • Metrocentre Rail Station Railway station 9.1 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 Tanfield Lea?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Tanfield Lea. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. 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 Tanfield Lea safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,377 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Tanfield Lea 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. 114 September 2025
  2. 109 October 2025
  3. 117 November 2025
  4. 80 December 2025
  5. 94 January 2026
  6. 102 February 2026
  7. 130 March 2026
  8. 108 April 2026
  9. 119 May 2026
  10. 122 June 2026
  11. 170 July 2026
  12. 112 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences417 reports
Anti-social behaviour323 reports
Shoplifting179 reports
Criminal damage and arson149 reports
Public order87 reports
Other theft66 reports
Burglary47 reports
Vehicle crime47 reports

Also: other crime 22, drugs 15, possession of weapons 11, robbery 8, theft from the person 3, bicycle theft 3.

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 Tanfield Lea?

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

All 62 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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Tanfield Lea postcodes

62 postcodes in use in Tanfield Lea, by district:

DH9 postcode district,62 postcodes

That district is in the DH postcode area.

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Places near Tanfield Lea

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Tanfield Lea's £187,475. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Tantobie1.3 km, £141,400Stanley1.9 km, £120,000Annfield Plain2.9 km, £106,000Dipton2.9 km, £160,000Burnopfield3.2 km, £140,000Rowlands Gill5.3 km, £192,500Sunniside5.3 km, £174,500Pelton6.3 km, £185,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Tanfield Lea

What is the postcode for Tanfield Lea?
Postcode district DH9, with 62 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Tanfield Lea in?
County Durham. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Tanfield Lea?
Luke Akehurst (Labour), for North Durham. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Tanfield Lea?
A typical £187,475 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 42 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Tanfield Lea?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Tanfield Lea Community Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Tanfield School. Source: Department for Education.
Does Tanfield Lea have a railway station?
The nearest is Dunston station, 8.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Tanfield Lea?
Ofcom reports on 57 of the 62 postcodes in Tanfield Lea. At 38 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Tanfield Lea at risk of flooding?
2 of the 62 postcodes in Tanfield Lea 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 1 home or business 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 Tanfield Lea?
9 of the 62 postcodes now in use in Tanfield Lea came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 56 of the 87 homes sold in Tanfield Lea were newly built (64%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DH9 district, 11%. 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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