Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 0 secondary schools. Coxhoe Primary School is the nearest published school at 691 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH6 4FB
Bowburn & Coxhoe · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Durham
- Ward
- Bowburn & Coxhoe
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH6 4FB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2004
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 4
- Latitude
- 54.711578
- Longitude
- -1.499112
- British National Grid easting
- 432,370
- British National Grid northing
- 535,288
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Bowburn & Coxhoe · E05016160
- Parish or community
- E04010614
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105042
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 044B · E01020698
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 044 · E02004319
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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Chatsworth Mews, Coxhoe, Durham, DH6 4FB | 8 October 2007 | £320,000 |
| 2, Chatsworth Mews, Coxhoe, Durham, DH6 4FB | 23 December 2003 | £200,000 |
| 1, Chatsworth Mews, Coxhoe, Durham, DH6 4FB | 15 December 2003 | £219,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 0
- 691 m
Coxhoe Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
West Cornforth Primary School
Community school
- 2.1 km
Kelloe Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 323
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 120
- Anti social behaviour 40
- Criminal damage and arson 36
- Public order 23
- Vehicle crime 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- DH6 4 residents
- 7,235
1 female, 4 male
Age bands in DH6 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
1,123 residents
735 residents
1,670 residents
2,093 residents
1,360 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH6 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
COXHOE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 LANSDOWNE ROAD, COXHOE, DURHAM, DH6 4DH
ODS code A83027
484 m
WEST CORNFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
READING STREET, WEST CORNFORTH, FERRYHILL, DL17 9LH
ODS code A83634
1.8 km
BOWBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
3.3 km
FERRYHILL AND CHILTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, DURHAM ROAD, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JJ
ODS code A83045
4.4 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Belgrave Court
BCT · Coxhoe
- 0.1 miles
Belgrave Court
BCT · Coxhoe
- 0.1 miles
Red Lion
BCT · Coxhoe
- 0.2 miles
Red Lion
BCT · Coxhoe
- 0.2 miles
Grange Estate
BCT · Coxhoe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 044B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,812 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
323 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 120 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.