Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Strawberry Lane is the nearest published school at 40 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH6 5BQ
Bowburn & Coxhoe · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bowburn & Coxhoe
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH6 5BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 5
- Latitude
- 54.733345
- Longitude
- -1.521672
- British National Grid easting
- 430,900
- British National Grid northing
- 537,700
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
- E04012610
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105014
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 041C · E01020697
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 041 · E02004318
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
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 40 m
Strawberry Lane
Other independent special school
- 113 m
Bowburn Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
Coxhoe Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 652
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 252
- Anti social behaviour 130
- Criminal damage and arson 67
- Shoplifting 51
- Public order 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH6 5 residents
- 5,856
Age bands in DH6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
1,002 residents
559 residents
1,827 residents
1,606 residents
1,073 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
BOWBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
486 m
COXHOE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 LANSDOWNE ROAD, COXHOE, DURHAM, DH6 4DH
ODS code A83027
2.4 km
WEST CORNFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
READING STREET, WEST CORNFORTH, FERRYHILL, DL17 9LH
ODS code A83634
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Oxford Terrace
BCT · Bowburn
- 0.1 miles
Oxford Terrace
BCT · Bowburn
- 0.1 miles
Co-op Store
BCT · Bowburn
- 0.1 miles
Heugh Hall Road End
BCT · Bowburn
- 0.1 miles
Heugh Hall Road End
BCT · Bowburn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 041C, 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
14,325 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
652 published events cover 12 months, averaging 54.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 252 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.