DH8 9DU
Weardale · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
- Ward
- Weardale
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH8 9DU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH8
- Postcode sector
- DH8 9
- Latitude
- 54.809767
- Longitude
- -1.965748
- British National Grid easting
- 402,300
- British National Grid northing
- 546,100
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
Explore DH8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- 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%
348 residents
283 residents
498 residents
920 residents
733 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Reservoir
BCT · Waskerley
- 1.0 miles
Reservoir
BCT · Waskerley
- 1.8 miles
Village
BCT · Waskerley
- 1.8 miles
Village
BCT · Waskerley
- 1.9 miles
Honey Hill
BCT · Castleside
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.