Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. Newker Primary School is the nearest published school at 375 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH3 3HZ
Chester-le-Street North · 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 3HZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 3
- Latitude
- 54.852169
- Longitude
- -1.576340
- British National Grid easting
- 427,300
- 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 North · E05016163
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104479
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 013A · E01020594
- 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 DH3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 3
- 375 m
Newker Primary School
Community school
- 425 m
Cestria Primary School
Community school
- 437 m
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Chester-Le-Street
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,423
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 817
- Shoplifting 379
- Anti social behaviour 321
- Criminal damage and arson 316
- Public order 156
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
10
within 5 km straight-line
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
439 m
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
816 m
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
1.4 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
2.2 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
2.7 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
2.9 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
3.6 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
4.3 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
4.4 km
SACRISTON MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SACRISTON, DURHAM, DH7 6JW
ODS code A83026
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
West Lane
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.0 miles
West Lane
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Black Horse
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Black Horse
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Ropery Lane Roundabout
BCT · Chester-le-Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 013A, 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
11,923 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
2,423 published events cover 12 months, averaging 201.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 817 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.