DL13 4EB

Weardale · County Durham · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Bishop Auckland
Ward: Weardale
Local authority: County Durham
Constituency: Bishop Auckland
Postcode district: DL13
Postcode sector: DL13 4

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DL13 4EE	38 m
DL13 4EF	58 m
DL13 4DZ	90 m
DL13 4ED	109 m
DL13 4LF	111 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DL13 4EB
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: DL
Postcode district: DL13
Postcode sector: DL13 4
Latitude: 54.742360
Longitude: -1.815914
British National Grid easting: 411,950
British National Grid northing: 538,614

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North East · E12000001
Local authority district: County Durham · E06000047
Electoral ward: Weardale · E05016200
Parish or community: E04010703
Westminster constituency: Bishop Auckland · E14001101
Output area: E00106051
Lower layer super output area: County Durham 045D · E01020892
Middle layer super output area: County Durham 045 · E02004349

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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Property

At this postcode

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41 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
31, Wolsingham Road, Tow Law, Bishop Auckland, DL13 4EB	22 May 2026	£80,000
21b, Wolsingham Road, Tow Law, Bishop Auckland, DL13 4EB	12 March 2026	£75,049
30, Wolsingham Road, Tow Law, Bishop Auckland, DL13 4EB	17 September 2025	£55,860

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 6
Primary: 6
Secondary: 0

Tow Law Millennium Primary School

Community school
142 m
Blessed John Duckett Catholic Primary School, Tow Law

Academy converter
807 m
Peases West Academy

Academy converter
4.2 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 259
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 102
Anti social behaviour 46
Criminal damage and arson 29
Public order 25
Burglary 16

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 56
Postcode households: 27
Residents per household: 2.1
DL13 4 residents: 3,001

Age bands in DL13 4

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 14.5%
Age 15 to 24: 10.8%
Age 25 to 44: 21.8%
Age 45 to 64: 30.9%
Age 65 and over: 22.1%

This postcode contained 1.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL13 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

How to read these estimates

The standard postcode headcounts and the commissioned age table are separate ONS outputs. Small counts are disclosure-controlled, and totals can differ slightly between tables. Coverage is England and Wales only.

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%

Coverage is a modelled postcode-level snapshot, not a speed test or a guarantee for a named property. Check availability with providers before making a decision. Ofcom does not publish postcode-level full-fibre coverage in this release for commercial-confidentiality reasons.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Monument

BCT · Tow Law
0.1 miles
Monument

BCT · Tow Law
0.1 miles
Working Mens Club

BCT · Tow Law
0.1 miles
Working Mens Club

BCT · Tow Law
0.1 miles
Cemetery

BCT · Tow Law
0.1 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 045D, 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

2 of 10

Overall England rank

5,035 of 33,755

Income: 3 of 10
Employment: 2 of 10
Education and skills: 3 of 10
Health and disability: 1 of 10
Crime: 4 of 10
Housing and services: 2 of 10
Living environment: 2 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

A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.

Property market

Recorded sales

The five-year median is £54,180 from 10 recorded sales in DL13 4EB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.

The latest UK House Price Index average for County Durham is £138,148 in June 2026, up 7.0% year on year.

Schools

Published establishments

6 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 0 secondary schools. Tow Law Millennium Primary School is the nearest published school at 142 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

Published police records

259 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 102 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.