Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 1 secondary schools. Derwentside College is the nearest published school at 261 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH8 5BH
Consett North · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Consett North
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH8 5BH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 5
- Latitude
- 54.851894
- Longitude
- -1.833327
- British National Grid easting
- 410,800
- British National Grid northing
- 550,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Consett North · E05016166
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Blaydon and Consett · E14001106
- Output area
- E00104727
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 010E · E01020643
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 010 · E02004303
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 DH8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 1
- 261 m
Derwentside College
Further education
- 270 m
Delta Independent School
Other independent school
- 323 m
Learning for Life
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,855
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 646
- Shoplifting 280
- Anti social behaviour 251
- Criminal damage and arson 197
- Public order 132
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH8 5 residents
- 7,064
Age bands in DH8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.6%
1,221 residents
773 residents
2,040 residents
2,015 residents
1,204 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
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
363 m
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
1.8 km
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
2.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Front Street
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Front Street
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Consett Bus Station Stand A
BCS · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Consett Bus Station Stand B
BCS · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Consett Bus Station Stand C
BCS · Consett
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 010E, 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
7,534 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
1,855 published events cover 12 months, averaging 154.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 646 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.