DH9 crime rate and statistics

The DH9 postcode district, in the DH (Durham) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 5,021 street-crime records for DH9 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.3% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 134.8 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 126.7 for Durham Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

5,021

Latest month (August 2026)

442

Year-on-year

+6.3%

Month-by-month totals

Show as a table
Month Street-crime records
September 2025 382
October 2025 452
November 2025 427
December 2025 342
January 2026 303
February 2026 339
March 2026 429
April 2026 417
May 2026 462
June 2026 462
July 2026 564
August 2026 442

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

DH9

134.8

Durham Constabulary

126.7

5,021 records and 37,255 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of DH9 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in DH9

Published street-crime records in DH9, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright

Records by part of DH9: the centre 1,072, the east 1,016, the south-east 760, the south-west 717, the west 604, the south 547, the north-west 218, the north-east 131, the north 6.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of DH9's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and DH9's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of DH9 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore DH9 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for DH9 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 4,492
2022 5,336
2023 5,377
2024 4,475
2025 4,858
2026 (part year) 3,418

Is DH9 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for DH9 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in DH9 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

Moving home? Read how to check crime rates before buying a house. Browse all postcode districts

Police forces

DH9's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Durham Constabulary (99.7%), Northumbria Police (0.2%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Leicestershire Police (0.0%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%), Northamptonshire Police (0.0%) and Suffolk Constabulary (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in DH9

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
DH9 0 1,007
DH9 6 1,292
DH9 7 1,362
DH9 8 864
DH9 9 496

Council area

DH9 is mostly in the County Durham council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 37,255 Census 2021 residents of DH9.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 62.4% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About DH9 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £118,500 (256)
2025 £123,000 (562)
2024 £100,000 (489)
2023 £95,000 (487)
2022 £100,000 (641)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £249,950 (33) £140,500 (67) £95,000 (155) – (1)
2025 £284,998 (136) £145,000 (115) £88,000 (302) £70,000 (9)
2024 £221,995 (66) £130,000 (121) £83,000 (291) £74,000 (11)
2023 £237,750 (76) £127,500 (114) £79,950 (295) – (2)
2022 £205,000 (89) £124,495 (168) £80,000 (365) £67,500 (19)

Schools and colleges

21 open establishments with a postcode in DH9, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 21 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Oxhill Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Annfield Plain Infant School Primary Academy converter
Annfield Plain Junior School Primary Academy converter
Beamish Primary School Primary Academy converter
Bloemfontein Primary School Primary Academy converter
Catchgate Primary School Primary Academy converter
Collierley Nursery and Primary School Primary Academy converter
East Stanley School Primary Academy converter
Greenland Community Primary School Primary Academy converter
Shield Row Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
South Stanley Infant and Nursery School Primary Academy converter
South Stanley Junior School Primary Academy converter
Stanley Burnside Primary School Primary Community school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary, Stanley Primary Academy converter
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, South Moor Primary Academy converter
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Dipton Primary Academy converter
Tanfield Lea Community Primary School Primary Community school
West Pelton Primary School Primary Community school
North Durham Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Tanfield School Secondary Academy sponsor led
Croft Community School – Community special school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High3
Medium3
Low4
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 1,206 postcodes in DH9 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit60.0%79.9%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)93.9%96.4%

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CrimeMapsUK. DH9 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/dh9/

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