DL12 8XJ

Lower Teesdale · County Durham · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Lower Teesdale
Local authority: County Durham
Constituency: Bishop Auckland
Postcode district: DL12
Postcode sector: DL12 8

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DL12 8XG	155 m
DL12 8XF	161 m
DL12 8XE	248 m
DL12 8XQ	265 m
DL12 8XD	306 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DL12 8XJ
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: 1 June 2000
Postcode area: DL
Postcode district: DL12
Postcode sector: DL12 8
Latitude: 54.526503
Longitude: -1.836754
British National Grid easting: 410,664
British National Grid northing: 514,591

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: E04010713
Westminster constituency: Bishop Auckland · E14001101
Output area: E00105918
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

Explore DL12

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 10
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Other theft 4
Burglary 3
Criminal damage and arson 2
Other crime 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
DL12 8 residents: 6,785

Age bands in DL12 8

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 13.4%
Age 15 to 24: 9.9%
Age 25 to 44: 18.5%
Age 45 to 64: 29.1%
Age 65 and over: 29.1%

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.

Nearby transport

Village

BCT · Whorlton
0.3 miles
Village

BCT · Whorlton
0.3 miles
Thorpe Hall

BCT · Wycliffe
0.4 miles
Thorpe Hall

BCT · Wycliffe
0.4 miles
Bus stop

BCT · Wycliffe
0.7 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.

Evidence in context

Recorded crime

10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 4 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.