Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 1 secondary schools. Villa Real School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH8 6JR
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 6JR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2018
- Terminated
- 1 September 2018
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 6
- Latitude
- 54.867317
- Longitude
- -1.810921
- British National Grid easting
- 412,234
- British National Grid northing
- 552,520
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
- E00104869
- 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
- 1.1 km
Villa Real School
Community special school
- 1.1 km
Our Lady and St Joseph Brooms Catholic Primary School, Leadgate
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Leadgate Primary School - Split Site
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 583
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 252
- Criminal damage and arson 65
- Anti social behaviour 63
- Burglary 36
- Other theft 34
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.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
815 m
CONSETT MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION YARD, CONSETT, DH8 5YA
ODS code A83018
2.1 km
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
2.1 km
OAKFIELDS HEALTH GROUP
HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7SB
ODS code A83618
4.1 km
DRS LAMBERT & NG
WEST ROAD SURGERY, 9 WEST ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7XT
ODS code A83073
4.8 km
ANNFIELD PLAIN SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7TD
ODS code A83644
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bradley Bungalows
BCT · Leadgate
- 0.1 miles
Bradley Bungalows
BCT · Leadgate
- 0.1 miles
Pont Bungalows
BCT · Leadgate
- 0.1 miles
Pont Bungalows
BCT · Leadgate
- 0.2 miles
Pont View
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
583 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 252 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.