Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. Thornley Academy is the nearest published school at 657 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH6 3EY
Thornley & Wheatley Hill · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Durham
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH6 3EY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2007
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 3
- Latitude
- 54.751080
- Longitude
- -1.444590
- British National Grid easting
- 435,848
- British National Grid northing
- 539,710
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
- E00105490
- 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
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 69, Prospect Road, Durham, DH6 3EY | 12 May 2006 | £20,000 |
| 67, Prospect Road, Durham, DH6 3EY | 17 October 2003 | £29,500 |
| 65, Prospect Road, Durham, DH6 3EY | 3 September 2003 | £32,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 657 m
Thornley Academy
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Ludworth Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Wheatley Hill Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 320
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 98
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Vehicle crime 20
- Burglary 19
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
3.8 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
RC Church
BCT · Thornley
- 0.2 miles
RC Church
BCT · Thornley
- 0.2 miles
Gore Hall Estate
BCT · Thornley
- 0.2 miles
Gore Hall Estate
BCT · Thornley
- 0.2 miles
Dunelm Road
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
320 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.667 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.