DL12 9JD

Upper Teesdale · County Durham · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Upper Teesdale
Local authority: County Durham
Constituency: Bishop Auckland
Postcode district: DL12
Postcode sector: DL12 9

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DL12 9JB	240 m
DL12 9JF	376 m
DL12 9JE	670 m
DL12 9JQ	1.3 km
DL12 9JG	1.4 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DL12 9JD
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: 1 September 2002
Postcode area: DL
Postcode district: DL12
Postcode sector: DL12 9
Latitude: 54.531398
Longitude: -2.033847
British National Grid easting: 397,908
British National Grid northing: 515,124

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: E04010600
Westminster constituency: Bishop Auckland · E14001101
Output area: E00105884
Lower layer super output area: County Durham 067G · E01020863
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

Explore DL12

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

Bowes Hutchinson's CofE (Aided) School

Voluntary aided school
2.0 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 2
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Burglary 1
Other crime 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
DL12 9 residents: 3,204

Age bands in DL12 9

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 11.8%
Age 15 to 24: 15.2%
Age 25 to 44: 15.4%
Age 45 to 64: 31.5%
Age 65 and over: 26%

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

By-pass - West End

BCT · Bowes
1.1 miles
West End - Turning Circle

BCT · Bowes
1.1 miles
By-pass - West End

BCT · Bowes
1.2 miles
Bypass Slip Road

BCT · Bowes
1.3 miles
Church

BCT · Bowes
1.3 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 067G, 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

13,566 of 33,755

Income: 9 of 10
Employment: 8 of 10
Education and skills: 9 of 10
Health and disability: 6 of 10
Crime: 9 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.

Evidence in context

Schools

1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bowes Hutchinson's CofE (Aided) School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.

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

Recorded crime

2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 1 events.

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