Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 2 secondary schools. East Stanley School is the nearest published school at 636 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH9 6RA
Stanley · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Stanley
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH9 6RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2006
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 6
- Latitude
- 54.873165
- Longitude
- -1.673810
- British National Grid easting
- 421,031
- British National Grid northing
- 553,203
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Stanley · E05016195
- Parish or community
- E04010699
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104902
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 004D · E01020674
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 004 · E02004299
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
- 26
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 2
- 636 m
East Stanley School
Academy converter
- 687 m
Beamish Primary School
Academy converter
- 945 m
Stanley Burnside Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,354
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 544
- Anti social behaviour 186
- Criminal damage and arson 163
- Shoplifting 136
- Public order 76
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH9 6 residents
- 10,874
Age bands in DH9 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.1%
2,125 residents
1,178 residents
2,819 residents
2,833 residents
1,979 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
STANLEY MEDICAL GROUP
STANLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CLIFFORD ROAD, STANLEY, DH9 0AB
ODS code A83023
1.6 km
TANFIELD VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SCOTT STREET, TANFIELD, STANLEY, DH9 8AD
ODS code A83016
1.8 km
ANNFIELD PLAIN SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7TD
ODS code A83644
4.4 km
DRS LAMBERT & NG
WEST ROAD SURGERY, 9 WEST ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7XT
ODS code A83073
4.4 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL GROUP
21 GARDINER CRESCENT, PELTON FELL, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 2NJ
ODS code A83637
4.4 km
PELTON & FELLROSE MEDICAL GROUP
UNIT 1, THE LAVENDER CENTRE, PELTON LANE, PELTON, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 1HS
ODS code A83033
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Thatchers Foot
BCT · East Stanley
- 0.1 miles
Thatchers Foot
BCT · East Stanley
- 0.1 miles
Bungalows
BCT · East Stanley
- 0.1 miles
Bungalows
BCT · East Stanley
- 0.1 miles
Penshaw Gardens
BCT · East Stanley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 004D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,105 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,354 published events cover 12 months, averaging 112.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 544 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.