Houghton-le-Spring

The cheapest unleaded in town currently starts near 151p per litre. The very top of the local range is set by a small number of expensive outliers, and most stations sit much closer together than the headline gap suggests.

The supermarket sites, including Sainsburys, tend to set the floor for prices here. Supermarkets account for 3 of the 27 stations here, with branded and independent sites making up the remainder.

Esso around Post Office has been setting the cheapest unleaded price locally of late. Several of the busier sites sit along Leechmere Road and A1, so you can check them against each other without leaving your usual route.

Unleaded prices around Houghton-le-Spring sit broadly in line with the rest of North East England. Diesel averages around 173p per litre across the stations listed for Houghton-le-Spring.

Everything within about 8 km of the centre is included, so edge-of-town and retail park sites appear alongside the central forecourts. Prices in Houghton-le-Spring can move mid-week as well as at weekends, so the ordering above is worth a glance even if you always use the same forecourt.

Use the live table for the exact prices at each site, or set an alert if you would rather be told when your usual stations drop.