Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 3 secondary schools. Victoria Lane Academy is the nearest published school at 820 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL14 8JN
Shildon & Dene Valley · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL14 8JN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2007
- Terminated
- 1 July 2007
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 8
- Latitude
- 54.667038
- Longitude
- -1.617088
- British National Grid easting
- 424,796
- British National Grid northing
- 530,284
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Shildon & Dene Valley · E05016193
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105950
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 051A · E01020873
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 051 · E02004351
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
- 33
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 3
- 820 m
Victoria Lane Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 834 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Coundon
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Kirk Merrington Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 390
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 151
- Criminal damage and arson 75
- Anti social behaviour 69
- Other theft 19
- Public order 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL14 8 residents
- 7,203
Age bands in DL14 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,327 residents
800 residents
1,782 residents
2,142 residents
1,392 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
ST ANDREW'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
SENSIER HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S LANE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6QA
ODS code A83001
3.8 km
BISHOPS CLOSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPENNYMOOR HEALTH CENTRE, BISHOPS CLOSE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6ED
ODS code A83052
3.8 km
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
3.9 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
4.0 km
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
4.1 km
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
4.5 km
FERRYHILL AND CHILTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, DURHAM ROAD, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JJ
ODS code A83045
4.6 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hereford Street
BCT · Leeholme
- 0.1 miles
Hereford Street
BCT · Leeholme
- 0.2 miles
Methodist Church
BCT · Leeholme
- 0.3 miles
Methodist Church
BCT · Leeholme
- 0.3 miles
Leeholme Rd
BCT · Leeholme
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 051A, 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
561 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
390 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 151 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.