DH8 9PD

Weardale · County Durham · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DH8 9PE	21 m
DH8 9TY	424 m
DH8 9PG	997 m
DH8 9PB	1.0 km
DH8 9PQ	1.5 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DH8 9PD
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: 1 December 1996
Postcode area: DH
Postcode district: DH8
Postcode sector: DH8 9
Latitude: 54.858297
Longitude: -2.015555
British National Grid easting: 399,100
British National Grid northing: 551,500

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North East · E12000001
Local authority district: County Durham · E06000047
Electoral ward: Weardale · E05016200
Parish or community: E04010620
Westminster constituency: Bishop Auckland · E14001101
Output area: E00106030
Lower layer super output area: County Durham 042C · E01020891
Middle layer super output area: County Durham 042 · E02004348

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

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 1
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Criminal damage and arson 1

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%

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

Hamlet

BCT · Ruffside
0.0 miles
Hamlet

BCT · Ruffside
0.0 miles
Ruffside Hall

BCT · Ruffside
0.3 miles
Ruffside Hall

BCT · Ruffside
0.3 miles
Derwent Reservoir West End

BCT · Ruffside
0.6 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 042C, 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

10,732 of 33,755

Income: 5 of 10
Employment: 5 of 10
Education and skills: 5 of 10
Health and disability: 4 of 10
Crime: 7 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 1 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 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 1 events.

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