Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Esh Winning Academy is the nearest published school at 88 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH7 7PN
Deerness · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Deerness
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH7 7PN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 7
- Latitude
- 54.766766
- Longitude
- -1.709231
- British National Grid easting
- 418,807
- British National Grid northing
- 541,353
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Deerness · E05016171
- Parish or community
- E04010603
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00105065
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 031A · E01020705
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 031 · E02004316
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 DH7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 88 m
Esh Winning Academy
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- 587 m
The Independent Grammar School:Durham
Other independent school
- 2.8 km
St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Esh Village
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 433
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 173
- Anti social behaviour 107
- Criminal damage and arson 56
- Other crime 20
- Public order 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH7 7 residents
- 8,123
Age bands in DH7 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
1,457 residents
867 residents
2,236 residents
2,277 residents
1,453 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.
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
1
within 5 km
BROWNEY HOUSE SURGERY
FRONT STREET, LANGLEY PARK, DURHAM, DH7 9YT
ODS code A83617
4.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
College View
BCT · Esh Winning
- 0.1 miles
College View
BCT · Esh Winning
- 0.1 miles
County Primary School
BCT · Esh Winning
- 0.1 miles
Lymington Crossing
BCT · Esh Winning
- 0.1 miles
Lymington Crossing
BCT · Esh Winning
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 031A, 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
4,320 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
433 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 173 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.