Elvet, Gilesgate & Shincliffe · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
37 female, 5 male
1,234 residents
1,099 residents
1,851 residents
2,006 residents
2,077 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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within 5 km
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
1.6 km
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
1.6 km
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
1.7 km
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
3.8 km
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
4.4 km
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Dragon Lane End
BCT · Sherburn Road
Bingo
BCT · Sherburn Road
Bingo
BCT · Sherburn Road
Dragon Lane End
BCT · Sherburn Road
Dragon Lane Retail Park
BCT · Gilesgate Moor
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 029D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,376 of 33,755
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate is the nearest published school at 577 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,756 published events cover 12 months, averaging 146.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 481 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.