Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Andrew's Academy is the nearest published school at 238 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL14 6SB
Bishop Auckland · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bishop Auckland
- Ward
- Bishop Auckland
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL14 6SB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2007
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 6
- Latitude
- 54.651819
- Longitude
- -1.670762
- British National Grid easting
- 421,342
- British National Grid northing
- 528,573
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Bishop Auckland · E05016158
- Parish or community
- E04010595
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00106003
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 058B · E01020885
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 058 · E02004355
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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 37, Main Road, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6SB | 11 June 2004 | £50,000 |
| 37, Main Road, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6SB | 17 December 1999 | £22,000 |
| 37, Main Road, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6SB | 4 July 1997 | £25,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 238 m
St Andrew's Academy
Academy converter
- 252 m
Cockton Hill Infant School
Community school
- 252 m
Cockton Hill Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,858
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,010
- Anti social behaviour 420
- Criminal damage and arson 386
- Shoplifting 319
- Public order 194
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL14 6 residents
- 11,070
Age bands in DL14 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.4%
2,008 residents
1,212 residents
2,493 residents
3,074 residents
2,679 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
675 m
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
719 m
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
886 m
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
2.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Gent Road
BCT · Bishop Auckland
- 0.1 miles
McCullagh Gardens
BCT · Bishop Auckland
- 0.1 miles
St Andrews Road
BCT · Bishop Auckland
- 0.1 miles
St Andrews Road
BCT · Bishop Auckland
- 0.2 miles
South Church Rd - McCullagh Gdns
BCT · Bishop Auckland
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 058B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,038 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,858 published events cover 12 months, averaging 238.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,010 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.