DH8 9DB

Weardale · County Durham · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Weardale
Local authority: County Durham
Constituency: North Durham
Postcode district: DH8
Postcode sector: DH8 9

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DH8 9DE	719 m
DH8 9DA	768 m
DH8 9DS	931 m
DH8 9DG	1.1 km
DH8 9HR	1.4 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DH8 9DB
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: DH
Postcode district: DH8
Postcode sector: DH8 9
Latitude: 54.815704
Longitude: -1.906986
British National Grid easting: 406,076
British National Grid northing: 546,764

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North East · E12000001
Local authority district: County Durham · E06000047
Electoral ward: Weardale · E05016200
Parish or community: E04010669
Westminster constituency: North Durham · E14001389
Output area: E00104710
Lower layer super output area: County Durham 014C · E01020637
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

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Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 4
Primary: 4
Secondary: 0

Castleside Primary School

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2.7 km
Moorside Primary Academy

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3.3 km
St Pius Xth Catholic Primary School, Consett

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4.5 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 7
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Criminal damage and arson 3
Anti social behaviour 2
Violence and sexual offences 2

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 6
Postcode households: 2
Residents per household: 3.0
DH8 9 residents: 2,914

Age bands in DH8 9

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 12.5%
Age 15 to 24: 10.2%
Age 25 to 44: 17.9%
Age 45 to 64: 33.1%
Age 65 and over: 26.3%

This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH8 9 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

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+: 0%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 100%
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.

Nearby transport

Honey Hill

BCT · Castleside
0.5 miles
Honey Hill

BCT · Castleside
0.6 miles
Gold Hill

BCT · Castleside
0.7 miles
Gold Hill

BCT · Castleside
0.7 miles
Healeyfield

BCT · Castleside
1.0 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 014C, 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

6 of 10

Overall England rank

18,868 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 6 of 10
Education and skills: 7 of 10
Health and disability: 5 of 10
Crime: 8 of 10
Housing and services: 3 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.

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: 0
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

Schools

4 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Castleside Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 3 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.