Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 4 secondary schools. The Meadows Academy is the nearest published school at 365 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL16 7LU
Spennymoor · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Spennymoor
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DL16
- Postcode sector
- DL16 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL16 7LU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 2026
- Terminated
- 1 June 2026
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL16
- Postcode sector
- DL16 7
- Latitude
- 54.694495
- Longitude
- -1.620693
- British National Grid easting
- 424,547
- British National Grid northing
- 533,338
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Spennymoor · E05016194
- Parish or community
- E04010696
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00183258
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 052A · E01020821
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 052 · E02004337
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
- 24
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 4
- 365 m
The Meadows Academy
Academy special converter
- 428 m
Whitworth Park Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 673 m
Middlestone Moor Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,646
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 608
- Anti social behaviour 220
- Shoplifting 190
- Criminal damage and arson 190
- Public order 139
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL16 7 residents
- 10,525
Age bands in DL16 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
1,824 residents
1,175 residents
2,790 residents
2,807 residents
1,893 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
BISHOPS CLOSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPENNYMOOR HEALTH CENTRE, BISHOPS CLOSE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6ED
ODS code A83052
1.5 km
ST ANDREW'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
SENSIER HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S LANE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6QA
ODS code A83001
1.6 km
FERRYHILL AND CHILTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, DURHAM ROAD, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JJ
ODS code A83045
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Moor Grange
BCT · Middlestone Moor
- 0.2 miles
Moor Grange
BCT · Middlestone Moor
- 0.2 miles
Four Lane Ends
BCT · Spennymoor
- 0.3 miles
Four Lane Ends
BCT · Spennymoor
- 0.3 miles
West Terrace
BCT · Spennymoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 052A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,751 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,646 published events cover 12 months, averaging 137.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 608 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.