Pelton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Roseberry Primary and Nursery School
Community school
Hermitage Academy
Academy converter
Chester-Le-Street CofE (Controlled) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
2 female, 3 male
1,960 residents
1,124 residents
2,779 residents
2,974 residents
2,167 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH2 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
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
89 m
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
1.0 km
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
1.8 km
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
2.4 km
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
2.4 km
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
4.3 km
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
4.4 km
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
4.8 km
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
4.9 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.
Gardiner Crescent
BCT · Pelton Fell
Gardiner Crescent
BCT · Pelton Fell
Plunkett Terrace
BCT · Pelton Fell
Plunkett Terrace
BCT · Pelton Fell
Glenside View Estate
BCT · Pelton Fell
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 011F, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,407 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.
27 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. Roseberry Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
810 published events cover 12 months, averaging 67.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 332 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.