Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. Tanfield School is the nearest published school at 449 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH9 8BL
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH9 8BL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 8
- Latitude
- 54.874110
- Longitude
- -1.702336
- British National Grid easting
- 419,200
- British National Grid northing
- 553,300
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
- E00104924
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 004E · E01020678
- 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
- 23
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 449 m
Tanfield School
Academy sponsor led
- 452 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary, Stanley
Academy converter
- 799 m
North Durham Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,428
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 873
- Shoplifting 343
- Criminal damage and arson 316
- Anti social behaviour 308
- Public order 173
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH9 8 residents
- 7,254
Age bands in DH9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,281 residents
730 residents
1,774 residents
1,847 residents
1,402 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
TANFIELD VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SCOTT STREET, TANFIELD, STANLEY, DH9 8AD
ODS code A83016
467 m
STANLEY MEDICAL GROUP
STANLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CLIFFORD ROAD, STANLEY, DH9 0AB
ODS code A83023
530 m
ANNFIELD PLAIN SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7TD
ODS code A83644
2.9 km
DRS LAMBERT & NG
WEST ROAD SURGERY, 9 WEST ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7XT
ODS code A83073
2.9 km
CEDARS MEDICAL GROUP
CEDAR CRESCENT, BURNOPFIELD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 6HU
ODS code A83038
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Sunny Terrace
BCT · Stanley
- 0.2 miles
Sunny Terrace
BCT · Stanley
- 0.2 miles
Good Street
BCT · Tanfield Lea
- 0.2 miles
Good Street
BCT · Tanfield Lea
- 0.2 miles
Royal Hotel
BCT · Stanley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 004E, 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
10,928 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
2,428 published events cover 12 months, averaging 202.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 873 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.