Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wearhead Primary School is the nearest published school at 928 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL13 1HS
Weardale · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bishop Auckland
- 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 1HS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL13
- Postcode sector
- DL13 1
- Latitude
- 54.744164
- Longitude
- -2.231442
- British National Grid easting
- 385,199
- British National Grid northing
- 538,824
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
- E00106029
- 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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| High Rigg, Wearhead, Bishop Auckland, DL13 1HS | 31 July 2018 | £212,000 |
| High Rigg, Wearhead, Bishop Auckland, DL13 1HS | 25 February 2008 | £248,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 928 m
Wearhead Primary School
Community school
- 3.4 km
St John's Chapel Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DL13 1 residents
- 1,470
4 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL13 1 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
- 0.6 miles
Vedra Close
BCT · Wearhead
- 0.6 miles
Vedra Close
BCT · Wearhead
- 0.6 miles
Post Office
BCT · Wearhead
- 0.6 miles
Post Office
BCT · Wearhead
- 0.8 miles
Lane End
BCT · Ireshopeburn
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
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.