Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 1 secondary schools. Thornley Academy is the nearest published school at 229 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH6 3AZ
Thornley & Wheatley Hill · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH6 3AZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2009
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 3
- Latitude
- 54.751870
- Longitude
- -1.432943
- British National Grid easting
- 436,597
- British National Grid northing
- 539,804
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Thornley & Wheatley Hill · E05016196
- Parish or community
- E04010702
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105491
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 040D · E01020791
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 040 · E02004331
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
- 15
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 229 m
Thornley Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
St Godrics Catholic Primary School, Thornley
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Wheatley Hill Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 824
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 237
- Criminal damage and arson 177
- Shoplifting 108
- Anti social behaviour 99
- Burglary 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH6 3 residents
- 5,684
Age bands in DH6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
921 residents
571 residents
1,402 residents
1,597 residents
1,198 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
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
3.1 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
3.3 km
EAST DURHAM MEDICAL GROUP
THE CARADOC SURGERY, FRONT STREET WEST, WINGATE, TS28 5PZ
ODS code A83057
4.5 km
WINGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE INTRAHEALTH
FRONT STREET WEST, WINGATE, TS28 5PZ
ODS code A83610
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Schools
BCT · Thornley
- 0.1 miles
Colliery Inn
BCT · Thornley
- 0.1 miles
Schools
BCT · Thornley
- 0.1 miles
Colliery Inn
BCT · Thornley
- 0.1 miles
Colliery Inn
BCT · Thornley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 040D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,638 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
824 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 237 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.