Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Escomb Primary School is the nearest published school at 191 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL14 0DN
West Auckland · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West Auckland
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL14 0DN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 0
- Latitude
- 54.657385
- Longitude
- -1.710832
- British National Grid easting
- 418,754
- British National Grid northing
- 529,181
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- West Auckland · E05016201
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105992
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 057A · E01020882
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 057 · E02004354
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 DL14
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 191 m
Escomb Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Bishop Auckland College
Further education
- 1.5 km
Bishop Barrington Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 341
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 97
- Anti social behaviour 90
- Criminal damage and arson 51
- Burglary 33
- Vehicle crime 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL14 0 residents
- 6,297
Age bands in DL14 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.3%
942 residents
610 residents
1,312 residents
2,139 residents
1,516 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
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
2.1 km
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
2.2 km
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
2.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Escomb
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Escomb
- 0.1 miles
Four Lane Ends
BCT · Etherley Dene
- 0.2 miles
Three Lane Ends
BCT · Escomb
- 0.2 miles
Four Lane Ends
BCT · Etherley Dene
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 057A, 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
10,877 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
341 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 97 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.