DL12 9RJ

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 9

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DL12 9RH	2.0 km
DL12 9RL	3.9 km
DL12 9NA	5.1 km
DL12 9JE	5.8 km
DL12 9LZ	5.8 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DL12 9RJ
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: 1 January 2009
Postcode area: DL
Postcode district: DL12
Postcode sector: DL12 9
Latitude: 54.502918
Longitude: -2.119802
British National Grid easting: 392,340
British National Grid northing: 511,961

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

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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
4.1 miles
West End - Turning Circle

BCT · Bowes
4.2 miles
By-pass - West End

BCT · Bowes
4.3 miles
Church

BCT · Bowes
4.4 miles
Church

BCT · Bowes
4.4 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.