Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. South Hetton Primary is the nearest published school at 762 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH6 2SD
Murton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Murton
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH6 2SD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 2
- Latitude
- 54.797353
- Longitude
- -1.399628
- British National Grid easting
- 438,698
- British National Grid northing
- 544,883
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Murton · E05016184
- Parish or community
- E04010695
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105327
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 021F · E01033205
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 021 · E02004323
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
- 21
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 762 m
South Hetton Primary
Academy sponsor led
- 2.1 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton
Voluntary aided school
- 2.4 km
Easington Lane Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 230
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 98
- Anti social behaviour 41
- Criminal damage and arson 31
- Other crime 14
- Other theft 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH6 2 residents
- 9,636
Age bands in DH6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
1,602 residents
997 residents
2,255 residents
2,606 residents
1,658 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
747 m
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
2.4 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
3.9 km
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
4.1 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
4.5 km
THE NEW SEAHAM MEDICAL GROUP
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Police Houses
BCT · South Hetton
- 0.0 miles
Welfare Crescent shops
BCT · South Hetton
- 0.1 miles
Welfare Crescent shops
BCT · South Hetton
- 0.1 miles
Cricket Club
BCT · South Hetton
- 0.1 miles
Police Houses
BCT · South Hetton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 021F, 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
11,054 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
230 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 98 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.