Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 5 secondary schools. Ouston Primary School is the nearest published school at 481 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH2 1BG
Pelton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Pelton
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH2
- Postcode sector
- DH2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH2 1BG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH2
- Postcode sector
- DH2 1
- Latitude
- 54.888202
- Longitude
- -1.602229
- British National Grid easting
- 425,615
- British National Grid northing
- 554,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Pelton · E05016187
- Parish or community
- E04010674
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104577
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 002A · E01020613
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 002 · E02004290
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 DH2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 5
- 481 m
Ouston Primary School
Academy converter
- 767 m
St Benet's Catholic Primary School, Ouston
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Pelton Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 294
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 89
- Anti social behaviour 73
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Burglary 19
- Other crime 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH2 1 residents
- 10,157
Age bands in DH2 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
1,576 residents
1,032 residents
2,511 residents
3,269 residents
2,432 residents
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.
GP practices
11
within 5 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
1.7 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
1.7 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
3.4 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
3.6 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
3.7 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
4.1 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
4.1 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
4.6 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
4.7 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
4.7 km
WREKENTON MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, WREKENTON, GATESHEAD, NE9 7AD
ODS code A85016
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Atholl
BCT · Ouston
- 0.2 miles
Ouston Cooks Corner
BCT · Ouston
- 0.2 miles
Cooks Corner
BCT · Ouston
- 0.3 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Ouston
- 0.3 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Ouston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 002A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,504 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
294 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 89 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.