Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 4 secondary schools. Kibblesworth Academy is the nearest published school at 868 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH2 1SQ
Birtley North & Lamesley · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South
- Postcode district
- DH2
- Postcode sector
- DH2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH2 1SQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH2
- Postcode sector
- DH2 1
- Latitude
- 54.899006
- Longitude
- -1.608593
- British National Grid easting
- 425,200
- British National Grid northing
- 556,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Birtley North & Lamesley · E05016545
- Parish or community
- E04000132
- Westminster constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South · E14001567
- Output area
- E00041705
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 025D · E01008226
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 025 · E02001706
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
- 43
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 4
- 868 m
Kibblesworth Academy
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- 1.7 km
Ouston Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
St Joseph's Catholic Infant School, Birtley
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 163
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 59
- Anti social behaviour 39
- Burglary 14
- Other theft 12
- Criminal damage and arson 11
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 straight-line
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
2.2 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
2.9 km
WREKENTON MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, WREKENTON, GATESHEAD, NE9 7AD
ODS code A85016
3.9 km
FELL TOWER MEDICAL CENTRE
575-583 DURHAM ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE9 5EY
ODS code A85001
4.1 km
BEACON VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
6 BEACON LOUGH ROAD, BEACON LOUGH, GATESHEAD, NE9 6YS
ODS code A85026
4.1 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
4.4 km
FELL COTTAGE SURGERY
123 KELLS LANE, LOW FELL, GATESHEAD, NE9 5XY
ODS code A85007
4.5 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
4.6 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
5.0 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
5.0 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Front Street
BCT · Kibblesworth
- 0.6 miles
Coronation Terrace
BCT · Kibblesworth
- 0.7 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Kibblesworth
- 0.7 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Ouston
- 0.7 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Ouston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 025D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,685 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
163 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 59 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.