Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. Durham Sixth Form Centre is the nearest published school at 47 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH1 9DF
Elvet, Gilesgate & Shincliffe · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DH1
- Postcode sector
- DH1 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH1 9DF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2005
- Terminated
- 1 October 2005
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH1
- Postcode sector
- DH1 9
- Latitude
- 54.780599
- Longitude
- -1.573012
- British National Grid easting
- 427,562
- British National Grid northing
- 542,937
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Elvet, Gilesgate & Shincliffe · E05016175
- Parish or community
- E04012745
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00171834
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 030H · E01034493
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 030 · E02004314
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DH1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 47 m
Durham Sixth Form Centre
Academy 16-19 converter
- 945 m
St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St Oswald's Church of England Aided Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,426
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,195
- Shoplifting 579
- Anti social behaviour 384
- Public order 358
- Criminal damage and arson 227
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
431 m
CHASTLETON MEDICAL GROUP
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
1.9 km
BELMONT & SHERBURN MEDICAL GROUP
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
3.0 km
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
3.1 km
DUNELM MEDICAL PRACTICE
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Freemans Place Coach Park
BCT · Durham
- 0.2 miles
Radisson Hotel Waterside
BCT · Durham
- 0.2 miles
Claypath Millennium Place
BCT · Durham
- 0.2 miles
Claypath Millennium Place
BCT · Durham
- 0.2 miles
The Chains - Woodman
BCT · Durham
Relative deprivation
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
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,426 published events cover 12 months, averaging 285.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,195 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.