Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Wolsingham School is the nearest published school at 41 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL13 3DN
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL13 3DN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2018
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL13
- Postcode sector
- DL13 3
- Latitude
- 54.730258
- Longitude
- -1.893051
- British National Grid easting
- 406,986
- British National Grid northing
- 537,257
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Weardale · E05016200
- Parish or community
- E04010719
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00106105
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 042E · E01020906
- 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
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 41 m
Wolsingham School
Academy converter
- 941 m
Wolsingham Primary School
Community school
- 4.8 km
Frosterley Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 130
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 52
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Criminal damage and arson 17
- Other theft 11
- Vehicle crime 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL13 3 residents
- 2,987
Age bands in DL13 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.1%
435 residents
236 residents
507 residents
956 residents
921 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
School
BCT · Wolsingham
- 0.0 miles
School
BCT · Wolsingham
- 0.1 miles
School Bus Park
BCT · Wolsingham
- 0.1 miles
Comprehensive School
BCS · Wolsingham
- 0.2 miles
Hamsterley Road End
BCT · Wolsingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 042E, 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
13,907 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
Recorded crime
130 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 52 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.