Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 6 secondary schools. Park View School is the nearest published school at 570 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH3 3SW
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 3SW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2023
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 3
- Latitude
- 54.860531
- Longitude
- -1.570052
- British National Grid easting
- 427,698
- British National Grid northing
- 551,833
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
- E00104493
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 007C · E01020598
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 007 · E02004292
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
- 39
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 6
- 570 m
Park View School
Academy converter
- 616 m
Cestria Primary School
Community school
- 923 m
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Chester-Le-Street
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,183
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 698
- Shoplifting 377
- Criminal damage and arson 297
- Anti social behaviour 282
- Public order 143
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
13
within 5 km straight-line
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
259 m
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
579 m
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
2.0 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
2.6 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
2.6 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
2.6 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
3.1 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
3.4 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
3.5 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
4.6 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
4.8 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
4.9 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Picktree Lane Bus Depot
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Picktree Lane Bus Depot
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Police Station
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Police Station
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Cone Terrace
BCT · Chester-le-Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 007C, 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
23,524 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
2,183 published events cover 12 months, averaging 181.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 698 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.