Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. Sherburn Primary School is the nearest published school at 792 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH6 1WT
Pittington & Sherburn · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH6 1WT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 2004
- Terminated
- 1 July 2005
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 1
- Latitude
- 54.773126
- Longitude
- -1.512156
- British National Grid easting
- 431,482
- British National Grid northing
- 542,131
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Pittington & Sherburn · E05016189
- Parish or community
- E04010690
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00105201
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 027F · E01020731
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 027 · E02004311
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 DH6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 2
- 792 m
Sherburn Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
St Thomas More Primary School, Belmont
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Belmont Community School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 401
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 152
- Anti social behaviour 55
- Criminal damage and arson 39
- Burglary 37
- Other crime 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH6 1 residents
- 6,705
Age bands in DH6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.2%
1,075 residents
671 residents
1,634 residents
1,981 residents
1,445 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CHEVELEY PARK MEDICAL CTR
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
1.6 km
BELMONT & SHERBURN MEDICAL GROUP
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
1.8 km
CLAYPATH & UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
3.6 km
BOWBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
4.2 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Sherburn
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Sherburn
- 0.3 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Sherburn
- 0.3 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Sherburn
- 0.3 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Sherburn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 027F, 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
18,611 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
401 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 152 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.