Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. Oxhill Nursery School is the nearest published school at 433 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH9 7LQ
Craghead & South Moor · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH9 7LQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1984
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 7
- Latitude
- 54.864259
- Longitude
- -1.716430
- British National Grid easting
- 418,300
- British National Grid northing
- 552,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Craghead & South Moor · E05016168
- Parish or community
- E04010699
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104649
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 009A · E01020624
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 009 · E02004302
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
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 433 m
Oxhill Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 1.2 km
South Stanley Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
South Stanley Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,388
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 832
- Shoplifting 352
- Criminal damage and arson 337
- Anti social behaviour 298
- Public order 169
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH9 7 residents
- 8,190
Age bands in DH9 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,416 residents
836 residents
2,031 residents
2,221 residents
1,495 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
TANFIELD VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SCOTT STREET, TANFIELD, STANLEY, DH9 8AD
ODS code A83016
1.2 km
STANLEY MEDICAL GROUP
STANLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CLIFFORD ROAD, STANLEY, DH9 0AB
ODS code A83023
1.3 km
ANNFIELD PLAIN SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7TD
ODS code A83644
1.5 km
DRS LAMBERT & NG
WEST ROAD SURGERY, 9 WEST ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7XT
ODS code A83073
1.5 km
THE HAVEN SURGERY
THE HAVEN, BURNHOPE, DURHAM, DH7 0BD
ODS code A83622
4.4 km
CEDARS MEDICAL GROUP
CEDAR CRESCENT, BURNOPFIELD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 6HU
ODS code A83038
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Oxhill crossings
BCT · South Moor
- 0.1 miles
Ely Terrace
BCT · New Kyo
- 0.1 miles
Oxhill crossings
BCT · South Moor
- 0.1 miles
Ely Terrace
BCT · New Kyo
- 0.2 miles
Sandhole Club
BCT · New Kyo
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 009A, 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
4,420 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 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
2,388 published events cover 12 months, averaging 199 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 832 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.