Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 1 secondary schools. Strawberry Lane is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH6 5LL
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 5LL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH6
- Postcode sector
- DH6 5
- Latitude
- 54.717597
- Longitude
- -1.544164
- British National Grid easting
- 429,463
- British National Grid northing
- 535,938
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
- E04010615
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105028
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 041B · E01020696
- 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
- 20
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.3 km
Strawberry Lane
Other independent special school
- 2.3 km
Coxhoe Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
West Cornforth Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 23
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Public order 6
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Drugs 2
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- DH6 5 residents
- 5,856
3 female, 1 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH6 5 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
6
within 5 km
WEST CORNFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
READING STREET, WEST CORNFORTH, FERRYHILL, DL17 9LH
ODS code A83634
2.1 km
BOWBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
BOW STREET, BOWBURN, DURHAM, DH6 5AL
ODS code A83635
2.3 km
COXHOE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 LANSDOWNE ROAD, COXHOE, DURHAM, DH6 4DH
ODS code A83027
2.6 km
FERRYHILL AND CHILTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, DURHAM ROAD, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JJ
ODS code A83045
3.2 km
ST ANDREW'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
SENSIER HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S LANE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6QA
ODS code A83001
4.0 km
BISHOPS CLOSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPENNYMOOR HEALTH CENTRE, BISHOPS CLOSE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6ED
ODS code A83052
4.1 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
- 0.6 miles
Turning Circle
BCT · Tursdale
- 0.7 miles
Church
BCT · Metal Bridge
- 0.7 miles
Church
BCT · Metal Bridge
- 0.7 miles
Cornforth Lane
BCT · Metal Bridge
- 0.7 miles
Cornforth Lane
BCT · Metal Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 041B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,772 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
23 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.