Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Barnard Castle School is the nearest published school at 3.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL12 9SQ
Upper Teesdale · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnard Castle
- Ward
- Upper Teesdale
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL12
- Postcode sector
- DL12 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL12 9SQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL12
- Postcode sector
- DL12 9
- Latitude
- 54.498496
- Longitude
- -1.922758
- British National Grid easting
- 405,101
- British National Grid northing
- 511,465
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
- E04010604
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105885
- 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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Brignall Mill, Brignall, Barnard Castle, DL12 9SQ | 13 November 2017 | £800,000 |
| Brignall Mill, Brignall, Barnard Castle, DL12 9SQ | 6 October 2014 | £767,624 |
| Brignall Mill, Brignall, Barnard Castle, DL12 9SQ | 30 September 2005 | £625,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.9 km
Barnard Castle School
Other independent school
- 4.9 km
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Barnard Castle
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Shoplifting 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.8
- DL12 9 residents
- 3,204
7 female, 8 male
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%
386 residents
497 residents
504 residents
1,027 residents
850 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL12 9 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 25%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
- 1.4 miles
Organic Farm
BCT · Cross Lanes
- 2.1 miles
George and Dragon
BCT · Boldron
- 2.1 miles
George and Dragon
BCT · Boldron
- 2.3 miles
Bridge
BCT · Egglestone Abbey
- 2.3 miles
Bridge
BCT · Egglestone Abbey
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.
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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 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.