DL12 0DL

Lower Teesdale · County Durham · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Barnard Castle
Ward: Lower Teesdale
Local authority: County Durham
Constituency: Bishop Auckland
Postcode district: DL12
Postcode sector: DL12 0

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DL12 0DN	592 m
DL12 8SW	887 m
DL12 0DW	1.4 km
DL12 0DJ	1.6 km
DL12 0DQ	1.7 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DL12 0DL
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: DL
Postcode district: DL12
Postcode sector: DL12 0
Latitude: 54.607846
Longitude: -1.960003
British National Grid easting: 402,682
British National Grid northing: 523,631

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North East · E12000001
Local authority district: County Durham · E06000047
Electoral ward: Lower Teesdale · E05016182
Parish or community: E04010656
Westminster constituency: Bishop Auckland · E14001101
Output area: E00105907
Lower layer super output area: County Durham 064H · E01020867
Middle layer super output area: County Durham 064 · E02004345

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

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Property

At this postcode

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2 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
Sheperds Lodge, Eggleston, Barnard Castle, DL12 0DL	17 October 2003	£206,000
Sheperds Lodge, Eggleston, Barnard Castle, DL12 0DL	17 April 1996	£12,750

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

Cotherstone Primary School

Community school
4.3 km

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 7
Postcode households: 1
Residents per household: 7.0
DL12 0 residents: 2,373

Age bands in DL12 0

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 13.8%
Age 15 to 24: 7%
Age 25 to 44: 15.3%
Age 45 to 64: 32.7%
Age 65 and over: 31.2%

This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL12 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

How to read these estimates

The standard postcode headcounts and the commissioned age table are separate ONS outputs. Small counts are disclosure-controlled, and totals can differ slightly between tables. Coverage is England and Wales only.

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+: 100%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 100%
Gigabit-capable: 100%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 0%

Coverage is a modelled postcode-level snapshot, not a speed test or a guarantee for a named property. Check availability with providers before making a decision. Ofcom does not publish postcode-level full-fibre coverage in this release for commercial-confidentiality reasons.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Langleydale Common

BCT · Woodland
1.0 miles
Langleydale Common

BCT · Woodland
1.0 miles
Wilderness

BCT · Eggleston
1.0 miles
Wilderness

BCT · Eggleston
1.0 miles
Green Lane

BCT · Eggleston
1.3 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 064H, 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

16,829 of 33,755

Income: 6 of 10
Employment: 6 of 10
Education and skills: 9 of 10
Health and disability: 6 of 10
Crime: 8 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 2 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.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 0
Medium risk addresses: 0
Low risk addresses: 0
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.

Schools

Published establishments

1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Cotherstone Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.7 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.