Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Highcroft School is the nearest published school at 460 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL13 5AB
Lower Teesdale · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lower Teesdale
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL13
- Postcode sector
- DL13 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL13 5AB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- 1 May 2015
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL13
- Postcode sector
- DL13 5
- Latitude
- 54.613745
- Longitude
- -1.799724
- British National Grid easting
- 413,033
- British National Grid northing
- 524,305
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Lower Teesdale · E05016182
- Parish or community
- E04010610
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105854
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 064A · E01020856
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 064 · E02004345
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
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 460 m
Highcroft School
Other independent special school
- 768 m
Cockfield Primary School
Community school
- 2.4 km
Evenwood Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 125
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 52
- Anti social behaviour 23
- Other theft 12
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Other crime 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL13 5 residents
- 3,139
Age bands in DL13 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.3%
405 residents
275 residents
541 residents
984 residents
785 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
WOODVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, COCKFIELD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL13 5AF
ODS code A83032
303 m
PINFOLD MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD LANE, BUTTERKNOWLE, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL13 5NX
ODS code A83060
2.7 km
EVENWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
EVENWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE, COPELAND LANE, EVENWOOD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 9SU
ODS code A83626
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Cockfield
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Cockfield
- 0.2 miles
General Store
BCT · Cockfield
- 0.3 miles
Esperley Lane End
BCT · Cockfield
- 0.3 miles
General Store
BCT · Cockfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 064A, 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
5,287 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
125 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.417 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.