Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 2 secondary schools. Hermitage Academy is the nearest published school at 777 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH2 3TY
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH2 3TY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH2
- Postcode sector
- DH2 3
- Latitude
- 54.844135
- Longitude
- -1.591996
- British National Grid easting
- 426,300
- British National Grid northing
- 550,000
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
- E04010708
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104534
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 013D · E01020603
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 013 · E02004294
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
- 22
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 2
- 777 m
Hermitage Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Newker Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Bullion Lane Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,317
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 540
- Criminal damage and arson 197
- Anti social behaviour 184
- Other theft 79
- Public order 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH2 3 residents
- 8,972
Age bands in DH2 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.4%
1,313 residents
927 residents
1,902 residents
2,849 residents
2,137 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
921 m
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
1.8 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
1.9 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
2.1 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
3.2 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
3.3 km
SACRISTON MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
3.6 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Warkworth Drive Bottom
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Warkworth Drive Bottom
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Warkworth Drive
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Warkworth Drive
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Thropton Close
BCT · Chester-le-Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 013D, 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
33,350 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
1,317 published events cover 12 months, averaging 109.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 540 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.