Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. Tanfield School is the nearest published school at 558 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH9 9NU
Annfield Plain & Tanfield · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH9 9NU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH9
- Postcode sector
- DH9 9
- Latitude
- 54.882122
- Longitude
- -1.708465
- British National Grid easting
- 418,803
- British National Grid northing
- 554,190
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Annfield Plain & Tanfield · E05016152
- Parish or community
- E04010699
- Westminster constituency
- North Durham · E14001389
- Output area
- E00104920
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 001E · E01020676
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 001 · E02004297
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
- 558 m
Tanfield School
Academy sponsor led
- 562 m
Tanfield Lea Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary, Stanley
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 980
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 352
- Anti social behaviour 148
- Criminal damage and arson 128
- Shoplifting 79
- Public order 77
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DH9 9 residents
- 6,698
2 female, 0 male
Age bands in DH9 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.7%
1,023 residents
578 residents
1,492 residents
2,020 residents
1,589 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH9 9 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
TANFIELD VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SCOTT STREET, TANFIELD, STANLEY, DH9 8AD
ODS code A83016
1.4 km
STANLEY MEDICAL GROUP
STANLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CLIFFORD ROAD, STANLEY, DH9 0AB
ODS code A83023
1.5 km
DRS LAMBERT & NG
WEST ROAD SURGERY, 9 WEST ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7XT
ODS code A83073
3.3 km
ANNFIELD PLAIN SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, ANNFIELD PLAIN, STANLEY, DH9 7TD
ODS code A83644
3.3 km
CEDARS MEDICAL GROUP
CEDAR CRESCENT, BURNOPFIELD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 6HU
ODS code A83038
3.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Tanfield Lea
- 0.2 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Tanfield Lea
- 0.2 miles
Park
BCT · Tanfield Lea
- 0.2 miles
Road End
BCT · Tanfield Lea
- 0.2 miles
Road End
BCT · Tanfield Lea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 001E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,878 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
980 published events cover 12 months, averaging 81.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 352 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.