Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. Crook Primary School is the nearest published school at 971 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL15 8AA
Crook · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Crook
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL15
- Postcode sector
- DL15 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL15 8AA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL15
- Postcode sector
- DL15 8
- Latitude
- 54.703475
- Longitude
- -1.750139
- British National Grid easting
- 416,200
- British National Grid northing
- 534,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Crook · E05016169
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00171822
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 045C · E01020887
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 045 · E02004349
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
- 14
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 971 m
Crook Primary School
Community school
- 982 m
Howden-le-Wear Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Crook
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,235
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 432
- Criminal damage and arson 220
- Anti social behaviour 198
- Public order 92
- Shoplifting 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL15 8 residents
- 5,225
Age bands in DL15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.3%
929 residents
513 residents
1,184 residents
1,446 residents
1,171 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
NORTH HOUSE SURGERY
HOPE STREET, CROOK, DL15 9HU
ODS code A83020
1.5 km
WILLINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, WILLINGTON, CROOK, DL15 0EQ
ODS code A83003
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
New Road Factories
BCT · Crook
- 0.1 miles
High Beechburn Lane End
BCT · Howden le Wear
- 0.2 miles
High Beechburn Lane End
BCT · Howden le Wear
- 0.2 miles
New Road Factories
BCT · Crook
- 0.3 miles
Firtree Garage
BCT · Crook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 045C, 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
11,204 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
1,235 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 432 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.