Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Brandon Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 224 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH7 8BJ
Brandon · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Brandon
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH7 8BJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 8
- Latitude
- 54.748287
- Longitude
- -1.628906
- British National Grid easting
- 423,986
- British National Grid northing
- 539,321
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Brandon · E05016161
- Parish or community
- E04010603
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00104968
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 038A · E01020685
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 038 · E02004317
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
- 19
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 224 m
Brandon Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 777 m
Browney Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Langley Moor
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,014
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 396
- Anti social behaviour 155
- Criminal damage and arson 129
- Public order 75
- Shoplifting 64
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH7 8 residents
- 10,521
Age bands in DH7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,706 residents
1,128 residents
2,756 residents
2,951 residents
2,120 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
2
within 5 km
THE MEDICAL GROUP
ADRIAN CLARK HOUSE, SAWMILLS LANE, MEADOWFIELD, DURHAM, DH7 8NH
ODS code A83022
2 m
DUNELM MEDICAL PRACTICE
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
3.9 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
- 0.0 miles
Sawmill Lane Surgery
BCT · Meadowfield
- 0.0 miles
Sawmill Lane End
BCT · Meadowfield
- 0.1 miles
Sawmill Lane End
BCT · Meadowfield
- 0.1 miles
Grove Road End
BCT · Brandon
- 0.2 miles
Grove Road End
BCT · Brandon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 038A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,223 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
1,014 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 396 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.