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On Mitchell Street, in Stanley West & Annfield Plain
What it's like at DH9 7BQ: every home that has sold on Mitchell Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Mitchell Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 59 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 26, Mitchell StreetTerraced | May 1999 | £6,000 | 95 m² | £63/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Oct 2006 | £74,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 29, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Jun 2025 | £48,000 | 88 m² | £545/m² | 1 |
| 31, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Apr 2019 | £31,000 | 117 m² | £265/m² | 1 |
| 32, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Feb 2022 | £65,000 | 75 m² | £867/m² | 5 |
| 33, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Feb 2004 | £20,000 | 79 m² | £253/m² | 1 |
| 34, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Aug 2024 | £51,000 | 72 m² | £708/m² | 1 |
| 35, Mitchell StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2025 | £38,000 | 72 m² | £528/m² | 1 |
| 36, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Feb 2007 | £63,000 | 63 m² | £1,000/m² | 1 |
| 37, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Jun 2020 | £35,000 | 124 m² | £282/m² | 1 |
| 38, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Jul 2003 | £22,000 | 69 m² | £319/m² | 2 |
| 39, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Jan 2024 | £37,000 | 78 m² | £474/m² | 1 |
| 40, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Jul 2003 | £21,000 | 68 m² | £309/m² | 2 |
| 41, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Mar 1996 | £7,000 | 69 m² | £101/m² | 1 |
| 43, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Apr 2023 | £66,000 | 72 m² | £917/m² | 3 |
| 44, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Oct 2016 | £25,000 | 61 m² | £410/m² | 3 |
| 45, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Aug 2007 | £65,000 | 81 m² | £802/m² | 2 |
| 46, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Nov 2023 | £65,000 | 77 m² | £844/m² | 3 |
| 48, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Aug 2018 | £23,500 | 72 m² | £326/m² | 2 |
| 49, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Sept 2023 | £50,000 | 80 m² | £625/m² | 1 |
| 51, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Jul 2022 | £50,000 | 81 m² | £617/m² | 1 |
| 52, Mitchell StreetTerraced | Oct 1999 | £27,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Chester-le-Street, a drive away (8.4 km), with 232k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Poplar Street, 250 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes 16A, 6, SB9); 29 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
The nearest primary school is Greenland Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is North Durham Academy, 1.8 km away; Attainment 8: 39.8 · 4.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Asda, 1.0 km away, with Isha's Mini Store closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Tanfield View Medical Group (1.2 km), with Taylors Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, S.D Hairdressing is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital North Durham, 11 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Quaking Houses Village Hall is the closest café or restaurant (900 m), and South Moor Excelsior Club & Institute the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (12 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 173 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 10% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 57% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 106 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Memorial Park, 550 m away; for exercise, Pea Farm Off Road Centre (1.0 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 20 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 171 km.
Most households own their home, 29% rent privately.
17 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
North Durham constituency: Luke Akehurst MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 5,873 (14.1%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Reform UK 26%, Conservative 16%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
5 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near DH9 7BQ →
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in County Durham since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 59 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Seaham Beach · about 32 min
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 53 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 52 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 97.8% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.4% | 2.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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