Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 6 secondary schools. Woodlea Primary School is the nearest published school at 94 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH4 6DN
Lumley & West Rainton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Houghton Le Spring
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH4 6DN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2018
- Terminated
- 1 April 2020
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 6
- Latitude
- 54.848189
- Longitude
- -1.516221
- British National Grid easting
- 431,163
- British National Grid northing
- 550,482
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Lumley & West Rainton · E05016183
- Parish or community
- E04010659
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104460
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 015A · E01020590
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 015 · E02004295
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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Beauley Lodge Care Home, Woodstone Village, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 6DN | 30 July 2019 | £365,000 |
| Beauley Lodge Care Home, Woodstone Village, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 6DN | 10 July 2018 | £195,000 |
| Beauley Lodge Care Home, Woodstone Village, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 6DN | 14 April 2015 | £149,997 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 6
- 94 m
Woodlea Primary School
Academy converter
- 936 m
Bournmoor Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Dubmire Primary
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 564
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 210
- Anti social behaviour 112
- Criminal damage and arson 75
- Burglary 44
- Vehicle crime 33
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH4 6 residents
- 10,516
Age bands in DH4 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
1,831 residents
1,114 residents
2,770 residents
2,871 residents
1,961 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
2.1 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
2.3 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
2.4 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
2.5 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
2.9 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
3.1 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
3.7 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
3.8 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
3.9 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
4.1 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Woodlea Court
BCT · Woodstone Village
- 0.0 miles
Finchale Terrace
BCT · Woodstone Village
- 0.1 miles
Electricity Sub-Station
BCT · Woodstone Village
- 0.1 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Woodstone Village
- 0.1 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Woodstone Village
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 015A, 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
12,221 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
564 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 210 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.