Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Brandon Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 455 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH7 8QA
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 8QA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2024
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH7
- Postcode sector
- DH7 8
- Latitude
- 54.752178
- Longitude
- -1.634713
- British National Grid easting
- 423,610
- British National Grid northing
- 539,752
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
- E00104981
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 038B · E01020686
- 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
- 20
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 455 m
Brandon Primary Academy
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- 1.3 km
Browney Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Langley Moor
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 985
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 391
- Anti social behaviour 147
- Criminal damage and arson 128
- Public order 73
- Shoplifting 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 1.1
- DH7 8 residents
- 10,521
8 female, 11 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH7 8 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
THE MEDICAL GROUP
ADRIAN CLARK HOUSE, SAWMILLS LANE, MEADOWFIELD, DURHAM, DH7 8NH
ODS code A83022
570 m
DUNELM MEDICAL PRACTICE
KELVIN HOUSE, 1-2 VICTOR TERRACE, BEARPARK, DURHAM, DH7 7DG
ODS code A83030
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Vicarage Flats
BCT · Brandon
- 0.1 miles
Vicarage Flats
BCT · Brandon
- 0.1 miles
Brandon Lane - Linden Park Junction
BCT · Brandon
- 0.1 miles
Brandon Lane - Linden Park Junction
BCT · Brandon
- 0.2 miles
Briar Avenue-Cypress Court
BCT · Brandon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 038B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,195 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
985 published events cover 12 months, averaging 82.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 391 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.