Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Beamish Primary School is the nearest published school at 569 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH9 0QE
Pelton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Pelton
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH9 0QE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2009
- Terminated
- 1 May 2010
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 0
- Latitude
- 54.873894
- Longitude
- -1.654699
- British National Grid easting
- 422,257
- British National Grid northing
- 553,290
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Pelton · E05016187
- Parish or community
- E04010706
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104545
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 005A · E01020606
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 005 · E02004291
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 DH9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 569 m
Beamish Primary School
Academy converter
- 830 m
West Pelton Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
East Stanley School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 322
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 148
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- Vehicle crime 19
- Other theft 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH9 0 residents
- 4,235
Age bands in DH9 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.4%
611 residents
394 residents
1,010 residents
1,329 residents
1,200 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
STANLEY MEDICAL GROUP
STANLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CLIFFORD ROAD, STANLEY, DH9 0AB
ODS code A83023
2.8 km
TANFIELD VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SCOTT STREET, TANFIELD, STANLEY, DH9 8AD
ODS code A83016
3.0 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
3.3 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
3.4 km
CESTRIA HEALTH CENTRE
WHITEHILL WAY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DJ
ODS code A83050
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Station Cottages
BCT · Beamish
- 0.2 miles
Station Cottages
BCT · Beamish
- 0.2 miles
Beamish Hills
BCT · No Place
- 0.2 miles
Beamish Hills
BCT · No Place
- 0.2 miles
Station Road
BCT · Beamish
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 005A, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,361 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
322 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 148 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.