Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Bishop Auckland College is the nearest published school at 551 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL14 0SN
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 0SN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 0
- Latitude
- 54.648549
- Longitude
- -1.702433
- British National Grid easting
- 419,300
- British National Grid northing
- 528,200
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
- E00105997
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 056D · E01020883
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 056 · E02004353
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
- 551 m
Bishop Auckland College
Further education
- 761 m
St John's Catholic School & Sixth Form College
Academy converter
- 880 m
Bishop Barrington Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,150
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 592
- Shoplifting 413
- Anti social behaviour 342
- Criminal damage and arson 279
- Public order 142
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
1.5 km
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
1.8 km
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
2.1 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
4.1 km
EVENWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
EVENWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE, COPELAND LANE, EVENWOOD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 9SU
ODS code A83626
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bedburn Drive
BCT · Greenfields Dene
- 0.2 miles
Woodhouses Farm
BCT · Woodhouses
- 0.2 miles
Rockingham Drive
BCT · Etherley Dene
- 0.2 miles
Rockingham Drive
BCT · Etherley Dene
- 0.3 miles
Woodhouses Farm
BCT · Woodhouses
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 056D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,092 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
2,150 published events cover 12 months, averaging 179.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 592 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.