DH4 5 postcode sector in the DH4 district

DH4 5 is a sector of the DH4 district: every postcode that starts DH4 5. It has 172 postcodes in use, one of them a large-user postcode. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.

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Every postcode in the DH4 5 sector, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in the DH4 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 172 postcodes in the DH4 5 sector that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 160 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Houghton-le-Spring. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A690A182 DH4 5AA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AD: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AG: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AH: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AL: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AN: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AR: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AS: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AT: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AU: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AW: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AX: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AY: not on the flood risk listDH4 5AZ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5BA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5BB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5BD: not on the flood risk listDH4 5BE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5BG: not on the flood risk listDH4 5BH: not on the flood risk listDH4 5BP: not on the flood risk listDH4 5BQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5BW: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DD: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DG: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DP: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DR: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DS: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DT: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DU: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DW: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DX: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DY: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DZ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5EA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5EB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5ED: not on the flood risk listDH4 5EE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5EF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5EG: not on the flood risk listDH4 5EH: not on the flood risk listDH4 5EJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5EL: not on the flood risk listDH4 5EQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5FB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5FD: not on the flood risk listDH4 5FE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5FF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5GU: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HD: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HG: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HH: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HL: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HN: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HP: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HR: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HS: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HT: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HU: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HW: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HX: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HY: not on the flood risk listDH4 5HZ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JH: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JL: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JN: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JU: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JW: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JX: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JY: not on the flood risk listDH4 5JZ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LD: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LG: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LH: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LL: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LN: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LP: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LR: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LS: not on the flood risk listDH4 5LW: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NG: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NN: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NP: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NR: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NS: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NT: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NU: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NW: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NX: not on the flood risk listDH4 5NY: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PD: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PG: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PH: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PN: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PP: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PS: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PT: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PU: not on the flood risk listDH4 5PW: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QB: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QD: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QE: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QF: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QG: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QH: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QL: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QN: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QP: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QQ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QR: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QS: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QT: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QU: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QW: not on the flood risk listDH4 5QY: not on the flood risk listDH4 5RA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5RH: not on the flood risk listDH4 5RJ: not on the flood risk listDH4 5SA: not on the flood risk listDH4 5DH: low flood risk at worstDH4 5DL: low flood risk at worstDH4 5DN: low flood risk at worstDH4 5PX: low flood risk at worstDH4 5PY: low flood risk at worstDH4 5PZ: low flood risk at worstDH4 5QA: low flood risk at worstDH4 5ND: medium flood risk at worstDH4 5NH: medium flood risk at worstDH4 5NQ: medium flood risk at worstDH4 5PL: medium flood risk at worstDH4 5NL: high flood risk Houghton-le-Spring Map of every postcode in the DH4 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 172 postcodes in the DH4 5 sector that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 160 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Houghton-le-Spring. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A690 Houghton-le-Spring
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 4
  • At low risk at worst: 7
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 160

Of the 172 postcodes in the DH4 5 sector that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 160 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

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

What do homes sell for in DH4 5?

Homes in DH4 5 sold for a typical £139,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 62 sales, up 11.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£139,250 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£125,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 11.4% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £228,000 9 sales
  • Semi-detached £145,000 25 sales
  • Terraced £111,000 26 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

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

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start DH4 5. A typical price is the median, the middle sale, given from 5 sales or more.

How we work this out: house prices by postcode

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in DH4 5

Pick a postcode to see its council and MP, broadband, flood risk, what homes sell for, council tax, the nearest schools and stations, and crime around it.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed. See all our data sources

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