Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 1 secondary schools. Villa Real School is the nearest published school at 484 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH8 6FH
Derwent & Pont Valley · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH8 6FH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 6
- Latitude
- 54.860610
- Longitude
- -1.814239
- British National Grid easting
- 412,023
- British National Grid northing
- 551,773
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Derwent & Pont Valley · E05016173
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Blaydon and Consett · E14001106
- Output area
- E00104868
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 010F · E01020667
- 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
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 1
- 484 m
Villa Real School
Community special school
- 642 m
Leadgate Primary School - Split Site
Community school
- 740 m
Beechdale Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,283
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 474
- Anti social behaviour 154
- Criminal damage and arson 149
- Shoplifting 148
- Public order 84
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH8 6 residents
- 6,702
Age bands in DH8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.6%
1,020 residents
595 residents
1,588 residents
1,962 residents
1,593 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
5
within 5 km
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
529 m
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
1.4 km
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
2.0 km
OAKFIELDS HEALTH GROUP
HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7SB
ODS code A83618
4.8 km
DRS LAMBERT & NG
WEST ROAD SURGERY, 9 WEST ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7XT
ODS code A83073
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Werdohl Way
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Leadgate Rd Service Station
BCT · Consett
- 0.2 miles
Werdohl Way
BCT · Consett
- 0.2 miles
Leadgate Rd Service Station
BCT · Consett
- 0.2 miles
Front Street
BCT · Leadgate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 010F, 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
8,815 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,283 published events cover 12 months, averaging 106.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 474 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.