Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 3 secondary schools. Hermitage Academy is the nearest published school at 569 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH3 3HG
Chester-le-Street South · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH3 3HG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 3
- Latitude
- 54.852253
- Longitude
- -1.601259
- British National Grid easting
- 425,700
- British National Grid northing
- 550,900
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
- E00104519
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 011D · E01020601
- 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 DH3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 3
- 569 m
Hermitage Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Bullion Lane Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Newker Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,335
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 527
- Criminal damage and arson 218
- Anti social behaviour 215
- Other theft 73
- Public order 69
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH3 3 residents
- 6,161
Age bands in DH3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.4%
791 residents
592 residents
1,413 residents
1,888 residents
1,684 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
236 m
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
832 m
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
1.8 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
1.9 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
2.4 km
SACRISTON MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
4.0 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
4.1 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
4.6 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Matfen Court
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Matfen Court
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Netherton Close
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Estate
BCT · Waldridge
- 0.2 miles
Netherton Close
BCT · Chester-le-Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 011D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,591 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,335 published events cover 12 months, averaging 111.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 527 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.