Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Victoria Lane Academy is the nearest published school at 745 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL14 8PU
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 8PU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 8
- Latitude
- 54.663826
- Longitude
- -1.639164
- British National Grid easting
- 423,374
- British National Grid northing
- 529,919
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
- E00105953
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 055C · E01020874
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 055 · E02004352
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
- 31
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 745 m
Victoria Lane Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 787 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Coundon
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Prince Bishops Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 509
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 187
- Anti social behaviour 97
- Criminal damage and arson 87
- Other theft 35
- Public order 22
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
2.4 km
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
2.6 km
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
3.1 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
3.2 km
BISHOPS CLOSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPENNYMOOR HEALTH CENTRE, BISHOPS CLOSE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6ED
ODS code A83052
4.8 km
ST ANDREW'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
SENSIER HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S LANE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6QA
ODS code A83001
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Broomside
BCT · Coundon
- 0.0 miles
Broomside
BCT · Coundon
- 0.1 miles
Church Street
BCT · Coundon
- 0.1 miles
Church Street
BCT · Coundon
- 0.3 miles
Chapel Place
BCT · Coundon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 055C, 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
3,053 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
509 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 187 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.