Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 1 secondary schools. Derwentside College is the nearest published school at 173 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH8 5XP
Consett North · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Consett
- 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 5XP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 5
- Latitude
- 54.849069
- Longitude
- -1.837964
- British National Grid easting
- 410,503
- British National Grid northing
- 550,485
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
- E00183234
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 014G · E01034490
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 014 · E02004305
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mcdonalds Restaurant, Vehicle Charging Point, Ponds Court Business Park, Consett, DH8 5XP | 3 December 2020 | £2,000 |
| Steel House, 1, Ponds Court Business Park, Consett, DH8 5XP | 3 November 2017 | £300,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 1
- 173 m
Derwentside College
Further education
- 460 m
Delta Independent School
Other independent school
- 755 m
Learning for Life
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,907
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 676
- Shoplifting 280
- Anti social behaviour 267
- Criminal damage and arson 203
- Public order 136
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 92.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 3.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 3.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 3.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 92.9%
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
701 m
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
2.0 km
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Derwentside College
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Derwentside College
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Tesco car park
BCT · Templetown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 014G, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,436 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 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
1,907 published events cover 12 months, averaging 158.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 676 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.