Elvet, Gilesgate & Shincliffe · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
St Oswald's Church of England Aided Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation
Other independent school
University of Durham
Higher education institutions
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
12 female, 16 male
490 residents
7,040 residents
1,165 residents
769 residents
605 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH1 3 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
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
959 m
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
2.7 km
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
3.5 km
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
3.6 km
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
4.0 km
ADRIAN CLARK HOUSE, SAWMILLS LANE, MEADOWFIELD, DURHAM, DH7 8NH
ODS code A83022
4.3 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Cathedral Priors Walk Entrance
BCT · Durham
North Bailey
BCT · Durham
North Bailey
BCT · Durham
Cathedral
BCT · Durham
St Oswalds Church
BCT · Durham
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 030H, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,771 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.
36 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 5 secondary schools. St Oswald's Church of England Aided Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 321 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
3,033 published events cover 12 months, averaging 252.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,004 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.