Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 6 secondary schools. Park View School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH3 4AU
North Lodge · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- North Lodge
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH3 4AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH3
- Postcode sector
- DH3 4
- Latitude
- 54.864722
- Longitude
- -1.568418
- British National Grid easting
- 427,800
- British National Grid northing
- 552,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- North Lodge · E05016186
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104567
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 007E · E01020612
- 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
- 43
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.0 km
Park View School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Chester-Le-Street CofE (Controlled) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.1 km
Cestria Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,730
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 502
- Shoplifting 367
- Anti social behaviour 226
- Criminal damage and arson 209
- Public order 124
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH3 4 residents
- 5,901
Age bands in DH3 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 29%
819 residents
518 residents
1,082 residents
1,679 residents
1,671 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
685 m
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
1.1 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
2.2 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
2.4 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
2.5 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
2.8 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
3.0 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
3.1 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
3.5 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
4.5 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
4.5 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
4.5 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Park Road North - Broadway
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Park Road North - Broadway
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.1 miles
Shields Road
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Highfield Hospital
BCT · Chester-le-Street
- 0.2 miles
Picktree Lane Bus Depot
BCT · Chester-le-Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 007E, 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
31,093 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,730 published events cover 12 months, averaging 144.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 502 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.