Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 3 secondary schools. Hermitage Academy is the nearest published school at 385 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH2 2TT
Chester-le-Street South · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH2
- Postcode sector
- DH2 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH2 2TT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH2
- Postcode sector
- DH2 2
- Latitude
- 54.854537
- Longitude
- -1.593324
- British National Grid easting
- 426,208
- British National Grid northing
- 551,157
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Chester-le-Street South · E05016164
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104516
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 011E · E01020602
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 011 · E02004293
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
- 25
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 3
- 385 m
Hermitage Academy
Academy converter
- 609 m
Bullion Lane Primary School
Community school
- 798 m
Newker Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,400
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 853
- Anti social behaviour 348
- Criminal damage and arson 337
- Shoplifting 274
- Public order 154
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 49
- Postcode households
- 34
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- DH2 2 residents
- 11,333
25 female, 24 male
Age bands in DH2 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
1,960 residents
1,124 residents
2,779 residents
2,974 residents
2,167 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 71.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 69%
- Gigabit-capable
- 71.4%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
10
within 5 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
420 m
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
1.1 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
1.3 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
1.4 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
2.2 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
3.8 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
4.1 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
4.3 km
SACRISTON MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
4.5 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
5.0 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
- 0.0 miles
Gibside Bungalows
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.0 miles
Gibside Bungalows
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Gibside
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Gibside
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Matfen Court
BCT · Chester-le-Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 011E, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,064 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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.
Flood risk
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.
- High risk addresses
- 3
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 7
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,400 published events cover 12 months, averaging 200 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 853 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.