Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hunwick Primary School is the nearest published school at 552 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL15 0XP
Willington & Hunwick · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Willington & Hunwick
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham
- Postcode district
- DL15
- Postcode sector
- DL15 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL15 0XP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL15
- Postcode sector
- DL15 0
- Latitude
- 54.685420
- Longitude
- -1.713023
- British National Grid easting
- 418,600
- British National Grid northing
- 532,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Willington & Hunwick · E05016202
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- City of Durham · E14001173
- Output area
- E00106020
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 057B · E01020888
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 057 · E02004354
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 DL15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 552 m
Hunwick Primary School
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- 2.3 km
Sunnybrow Primary School
Community school
- 2.7 km
Howden-le-Wear Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 90
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Anti social behaviour 22
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Vehicle crime 7
- Other crime 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL15 0 residents
- 9,044
Age bands in DL15 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
1,524 residents
941 residents
1,983 residents
2,570 residents
1,906 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
WILLINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, WILLINGTON, CROOK, DL15 0EQ
ODS code A83003
3.0 km
BISHOPGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
3.8 km
STATION VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
3.9 km
NORTH HOUSE SURGERY
HOPE STREET, CROOK, DL15 9HU
ODS code A83020
4.2 km
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Green Rising
BCT · Hunwick
- 0.0 miles
Green Rising
BCT · Hunwick
- 0.1 miles
Green
BCT · Hunwick
- 0.2 miles
Green
BCT · Hunwick
- 0.3 miles
Hunwick Road Ends
BCT · Pixley Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 057B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,715 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
90 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.