Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. Crook Primary School is the nearest published school at 501 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL15 8LS
Crook · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Crook
- 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 8LS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2008
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL15
- Postcode sector
- DL15 8
- Latitude
- 54.708056
- Longitude
- -1.744927
- British National Grid easting
- 416,534
- British National Grid northing
- 534,811
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
- E00105974
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 046A · E01020877
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 046 · E02004350
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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Watergate Cottage, 3, Beechwood Lane, Crook, DL15 8LS | 4 August 2017 | £121,000 |
| Watergate Farm, Beechwood Lane, Crook, DL15 8LS | 21 October 2016 | £260,000 |
| Watergate Cottage, 3, Beechwood Lane, Crook, DL15 8LS | 20 December 2013 | £72,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 501 m
Crook Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Crook
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Hartside Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,251
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 440
- Criminal damage and arson 227
- Anti social behaviour 195
- Public order 97
- Shoplifting 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DL15 8 residents
- 5,225
2 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL15 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
NORTH HOUSE SURGERY
HOPE STREET, CROOK, DL15 9HU
ODS code A83020
1.0 km
WILLINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, WILLINGTON, CROOK, DL15 0EQ
ODS code A83003
3.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Firtree Garage
BCT · Crook
- 0.1 miles
Firtree Garage
BCT · Crook
- 0.2 miles
South End Villas
BCT · Crook
- 0.2 miles
South End Villas
BCT · Crook
- 0.2 miles
Ullswater Crescent
BCT · Crook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 046A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,438 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,251 published events cover 12 months, averaging 104.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 440 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.