Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 1 secondary schools. Derwentside College is the nearest published school at 215 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH8 7PG
Delves Lane · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Delves Lane
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH8 7PG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 7
- Latitude
- 54.848302
- Longitude
- -1.834899
- British National Grid easting
- 410,700
- British National Grid northing
- 550,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Delves Lane · E05016172
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Blaydon and Consett · E14001106
- Output area
- E00171833
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 010B · E01020640
- 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
- 21
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 1
- 215 m
Derwentside College
Further education
- 556 m
Delta Independent School
Other independent school
- 721 m
Learning for Life
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,904
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 677
- Anti social behaviour 269
- Shoplifting 258
- Criminal damage and arson 199
- Public order 136
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH8 7 residents
- 9,312
Age bands in DH8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
1,650 residents
966 residents
2,197 residents
2,566 residents
1,736 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
568 m
QUEENS ROAD SURGERY
83 QUEENS ROAD, CONSETT, DH8 0BW
ODS code A83049
2.2 km
LEADGATE SURGERY
GEORGE EWEN HOUSE, WATLING STREET, LEADGATE, CONSETT, DH8 6DP
ODS code A83636
2.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Derwentside College
BCT · Consett
- 0.1 miles
Derwentside College
BCT · Consett
- 0.2 miles
Front Street
BCT · Consett
- 0.2 miles
Tesco
BCT · Consett
- 0.2 miles
Temple Alwyn Gardens
BCT · Templetown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 010B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,734 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
1,904 published events cover 12 months, averaging 158.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 677 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.