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DL12 0HQ
Upper Teesdale · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Upper Teesdale
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL12
- Postcode sector
- DL12 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL12 0HQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL12
- Postcode sector
- DL12 0
- Latitude
- 54.662989
- Longitude
- -2.253829
- British National Grid easting
- 383,725
- British National Grid northing
- 529,796
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Upper Teesdale · E05016199
- Parish or community
- E04010630
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105896
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 067A · E01034511
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 067 · E02007022
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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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 0
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- 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%
324 residents
163 residents
358 residents
766 residents
730 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 100%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.3 miles
Hotel
BCT · Langdon Beck
- 1.4 miles
Syke Foot
BCT · Forest in Teesdale
- 1.4 miles
Syke Foot
BCT · Forest in Teesdale
- 1.5 miles
Youth Hostel
BCT · Forest in Teesdale
- 1.5 miles
Youth Hostel
BCT · Forest in Teesdale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 067A, 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
11,034 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.