Lumley & West Rainton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
West Rainton Primary School
Community school
East Rainton Primary School
Community school
Pittington Primary School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
2 female, 2 male
948 residents
668 residents
1,629 residents
2,016 residents
1,798 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH5 9 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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within 5 km straight-line
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
652 m
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
3.2 km
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
3.2 km
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
3.5 km
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
4.1 km
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
4.2 km
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
4.4 km
Old Durham Road
BCT · West Rainton
Old Durham Road
BCT · West Rainton
Former Masons Arms
BCT · Rainton Gate
Former Masons Arms
BCT · Rainton Gate
Pittington Road
BCT · Rainton Gate
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 027B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,097 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
29 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 3 secondary schools. West Rainton Primary School is the nearest published school at 958 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
261 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 96 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.