Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. South Hetton Primary is the nearest published school at 849 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH6 2TY
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 2TY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 2
- Latitude
- 54.806553
- Longitude
- -1.411907
- British National Grid easting
- 437,900
- British National Grid northing
- 545,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Murton · E05016184
- Parish or community
- E04010670
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105422
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 021C · E01020776
- 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
- 23
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 849 m
South Hetton Primary
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Easington Lane Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 524
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 198
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Criminal damage and arson 75
- Other theft 33
- Vehicle crime 29
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
711 m
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
2.2 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
3.2 km
THE NEW SEAHAM MEDICAL GROUP
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Hedley Terrace
BCT · South Hetton
- 0.4 miles
Hedley Terrace
BCT · South Hetton
- 0.4 miles
Health Centre
BCT · South Hetton
- 0.4 miles
Health Centre
BCT · South Hetton
- 0.5 miles
South Hetton Road-Snippers Gate
BCT · Easington Lane
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 021C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,316 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
524 published events cover 12 months, averaging 43.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 198 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.