Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Springmoor Grange School is the nearest published school at 48 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL16 6GQ
Tudhoe · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tudhoe
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DL16
- Postcode sector
- DL16 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL16 6GQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL16
- Postcode sector
- DL16 6
- Latitude
- 54.705127
- Longitude
- -1.596012
- British National Grid easting
- 426,131
- British National Grid northing
- 534,530
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Tudhoe · E05016198
- Parish or community
- E04010696
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105653
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 047B · E01020818
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 047 · E02004333
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 DL16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 48 m
Springmoor Grange School
Community school
- 256 m
St Charles' Catholic Primary School, Tudhoe
Academy converter
- 424 m
King Street Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,377
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 874
- Criminal damage and arson 348
- Anti social behaviour 316
- Shoplifting 181
- Public order 180
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL16 6 residents
- 11,832
Age bands in DL16 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.9%
1,907 residents
1,150 residents
2,937 residents
3,207 residents
2,737 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
BISHOPS CLOSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPENNYMOOR HEALTH CENTRE, BISHOPS CLOSE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6ED
ODS code A83052
624 m
ST ANDREW'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
SENSIER HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S LANE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6QA
ODS code A83001
627 m
FERRYHILL AND CHILTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, DURHAM ROAD, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JJ
ODS code A83045
3.0 km
WEST CORNFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
READING STREET, WEST CORNFORTH, FERRYHILL, DL17 9LH
ODS code A83634
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Durham Road
BCT · Spennymoor
- 0.1 miles
Durham Road
BCT · Spennymoor
- 0.1 miles
Burn Terrace
BCT · Spennymoor
- 0.2 miles
Burn Terrace
BCT · Spennymoor
- 0.2 miles
Wood Vue
BCT · Spennymoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 047B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,704 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
2,377 published events cover 12 months, averaging 198.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 874 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.