Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Andrew's Academy is the nearest published school at 746 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL14 8RA
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 8RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL14
- Postcode sector
- DL14 8
- Latitude
- 54.653827
- Longitude
- -1.658998
- British National Grid easting
- 422,100
- British National Grid northing
- 528,800
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
- E04010617
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105983
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 055E · E01020881
- 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
- 25
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 746 m
St Andrew's Academy
Academy converter
- 803 m
Prince Bishops Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Cockton Hill Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,318
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 810
- Anti social behaviour 322
- Criminal damage and arson 317
- Shoplifting 273
- Public order 157
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
1.3 km
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
1.3 km
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
1.4 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
2.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Grange Avenue
BCT · Auckland Park
- 0.1 miles
Grange Avenue
BCT · Auckland Park
- 0.1 miles
By-pass
BCT · Auckland Park
- 0.2 miles
Pilkington Way
BCT · Auckland Park
- 0.2 miles
Pilkington Way
BCT · Auckland Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 055E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,725 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
2,318 published events cover 12 months, averaging 193.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 810 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.