Shildon & Dene Valley · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Kirk Merrington Primary School
Community school
The Oaks Secondary School
Community special school
Victoria Lane Academy
Academy sponsor led
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
1 female, 1 male
1,327 residents
800 residents
1,782 residents
2,142 residents
1,392 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL14 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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within 5 km
SENSIER HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S LANE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6QA
ODS code A83001
2.8 km
SPENNYMOOR HEALTH CENTRE, BISHOPS CLOSE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6ED
ODS code A83052
2.8 km
THE SURGERY, DURHAM ROAD, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JJ
ODS code A83045
3.8 km
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
4.6 km
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
4.9 km
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
5.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Ship Inn
BCT · Middlestone
Ship Inn
BCT · Middlestone
Eden Terrace
BCT · Kirk Merrington
Eden Terrace
BCT · Kirk Merrington
Stobbs Place
BCT · Kirk Merrington
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 051B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,703 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
28 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. Kirk Merrington Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
254 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 104 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.