Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wearhead Primary School is the nearest published school at 936 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL13 1ED
Weardale · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Weardale
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL13
- Postcode sector
- DL13 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL13 1ED
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL13
- Postcode sector
- DL13 1
- Latitude
- 54.746283
- Longitude
- -2.212688
- British National Grid easting
- 386,407
- British National Grid northing
- 539,056
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Weardale · E05016200
- Parish or community
- E04010698
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00106028
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 042A · E01020889
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 042 · E02004348
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 DL13
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 936 m
Wearhead Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
St John's Chapel Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL13 1 residents
- 1,470
Age bands in DL13 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 5.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 38.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.2%
160 residents
84 residents
216 residents
563 residents
443 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- 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
- 0.1 miles
Lane End
BCT · Ireshopeburn
- 0.1 miles
Lane End
BCT · Ireshopeburn
- 0.3 miles
Front Street
BCT · Ireshopeburn
- 0.3 miles
Front Street
BCT · Ireshopeburn
- 0.3 miles
Vedra Close
BCT · Wearhead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 042A, 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
11,373 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.